The Portland daily press., 1892-02-25
RUM DID II.
Prohibition Make Trouble in the st.
Louis Gathering.
WOMEN'S SHARP FIGHT TO OBTAIN
RECOGNITION.

!
| The Platform Terrible Picture of
| Impending Ruin-The Conference Will
| Have a Presidential Candidate.
ST. LOUIS, February 24.-.At the Ma
tiOnal Industrial Conference today a
'sBlue and Gray mass meeting was held.
! Commodore Van De Voort of Nebraska,
| for the Union veterans present in the
! convention, and President Polk, for the
| old Confederate soldiers in attendance,
declared that they would join hands to
bury sectional hate, and this treaty was
| ratified in speeches by ex-senator Van
| Wyck of Nebraska and Ben Te1ill of
| Texas.
The salient features of the platform are
the following:
''We meet in the midst of nation
brought to the verge of moral, political
| and material ruin. Corruption dominates
| the ballot box, the legislatures and Con-
gress, and touches even the ermine of the
| bench. The people are demoralized and
many states have been compelled to iso-
late voters at the polling places to pre-
y.
The newspapers are subsidized or muz-
zled; public opinion is silenced; business
is Frustrated; our homes are covered
with mortgages; labor is impoverished,
and land is concentrating in the hands of
capitalists, The urban workmen are de-
MED the right of organization for self
protection; imported pauperized labor
bears down their wages, and
u:uo1:,,<. e,4,..J:..-.
unrecognized by our laws, is established
to shoot them down. They are rapidly de-
generating to European conditions. The
fruits of the toll of millions are boldly
stolen to build up colossal fortunes. un-
precedented in the history of the world,
while their possessors despise the repub-
lie and endanger liberty. From the same
prolific womb of governmental injustice,
we breed two great classes-paupers and
millionaires.
The national power, to create money
has been appropriated to enrich bond
holders. Silver, which has been accept
ed as coin since the dawn of history, has
been demonetized to add to the purchas-
ing power of gold, by decreasing the
value of all forms of property, as well as
human labor The supply Of currency
has been purposely abridged to fatten
usurers, bankrupt enterprises and en-
slave industry. A vast conspiracy against
mankind has been organized on two con-
tinents, and is taking possession of the
world If not met and overthrown at
once it
the destruction of civilization or the es-
tablishment of absolute despotism.
'sThe controlling influence dominating
the old political parties has allowed the
existing dreadful conditions to develop
without serious effort to restrain or
prevent them. Neither do they now in
tend to accomplish that reform. They
have agreed together to ignore, in the
coming campaign, every issue but one.
They propose to drown the outcries of
the plundered people with the uproar of
a sham battle over the tariff; so that cor
porations, national banks, rings, trusts,
'watered Stocks the demonetization of
silver and the expressions of usurers may
all be lost sight of"
The platform then demands the unlim-
tied coinage of silver; the increase of the
circulating medium to $50 per capita;
graduated income tax; postal savings
hanks and government ownership of
1a;Iroads +eIe0ranbs and telenhones
A!ter Clle Iecess' eiie iiShV loi 'he teo-
Prohibition Issue
il Tho r,o+forn was s+artad Miss Fran
- wv w;i,o,d ,,rosan+od +lo ,,,ino,i+v 70
nort which she moved be adonted i'm
r,od;o+o1v os On nan,andnent 70 +be ma
ioritv renort The minoritv renort favored
1o1 % ~
woman su11raSe ana deulanaea tne SUP
presslon e OF tne lIqlor @ 1ra1llc. AttemRts F.,
TO head OH MISS wizard reaolhg OF Ghe
minority report WIN points OF ofuer
were lneHecullal. "A strong speech op-
posln? the 'dfagglnS IN OF OUTSIDE Is
Sues py a; ,. Mann OF + flofloa, was an
swereu Sy Miss liialu ~. III a. spili1eu eI, ,at at
form committee was not present when
the temperance plank was omitted.
Jerry simpson aealarea mtinSgla Sha,, sa.lst
n,,ro ,,ovartv hefore thew could intemner-
ance. He moved the minority report be
lad on the taoIe. a viva voce vole was