Mississippi leader., 1892-08-04

TO ShO0t them down ana Gney are rap |
idly degenerating into European
conditions. The fruits of the toll of
millions are boldly stolen to build up |
colossal fortunes for a few, unprece-
dented in the history of mankind, and |
the possessors of these in turn despise |
the republic and endanger liberty.
From the same prolific womb of
governmental injustice come the two
great tclasses-tramps and milliOnaires.
The national power to create money |
is appropriated to enrich the bond
holders; vast public debt payable in
legal tender currency has been funded
into gold bearing bonds, thereby add |
ing millions to the burdens of the
people.
UsURERs FATTEN.
Silver. which has been accepted MS
coin since the dawn of history, has
been demonetized to add to the pur-
chasing power of gold by decreasing
the value of all forms of property, as
well as human labor, and the supply
of currency is thereby abridged to
fatten usurers and bankers by the
slave industry. A vast conspiracy
against mankind has been organized
on two continents, and it is rapidly
taking possession of the world. If not
overthrown at once, it forebodes ter
rible social convulsions, the destruc-
ton of civilization and the establish
ment of an absolute despotism. We
have witnessed for more than a
quarter of a century the struggles of
the two great political parties for
power and plumber, while grievous
wrongs have been inflicted upon the
suffering people. We charge that the
controlling influences dominating both
| these parties have permitted the eX
listing dreadful conditions to develop
without serious effort to prevent or
restrain them. Neither do they now
promise us any substantial reform.
They have agreed together to ignore
in the campaign every issue but one.
They propose to drown the outcries
of a plundered people with the uproar
of sham battle over the tariff so that
capitalists, corporations, national
| banks, rings, trusts, watered stock,
| the demOnetization of silver and the
oppression of the usurers may all be
lost sight of. They propose to sacri-
| flee our home, lives and children on
| the altar of mammon ; to destroy the
multitude in order to secure cOrrup
| tion funds from the millionaires.
Assembled on the anniversary of the
birthday of the nation, filed with the
spirit of the grand generation which
established our independence, we seek
to restore the government of the Re-
I, L. ko n1oi
.ple," with which class it originated.
We assert our purposes to be identical
with the purposes of the national con-
stitution, "to form more perfect
union, establish justice, insure dOmes--
tic tranquility, provide for the common
defense, promote the general welfare
and secure the blessings of liberty for
ourselves and our posterity."
We declare that this Republic can
only endure as free government
while built upon the love of the whole
people for each other and for the
nation; that it cannot be pinned
together by bayonets that the civil
war is over, and that every passion
and resentment which grew out of it
must die with it, and that we must be
in fact as we are in name one united
brotherhood of free men.
APPALLING CONDITIONS.
Our country is confronted by condi- |
tons for which there is no precedent |
in the history of the world. Our an
nual agricultural productions amount
to billions of dollars in value, which
must within few weeks or months |
be exchanged for billions of dollars of
commodities consumed in their pro-
duction the existing currency supply |
is wholly inadequate to make the
exchange; the results are falling
prices, the formation of combines and
rings, the impoverishment of the pro
ducing classes. We pledge ourselves
that if given power we will labor to
correct these evils by wise and reas-
enable legislation in accordance with
the terms of our platform.
We believe that the powers OF gov
ernment, in other words of the people,
should be expanded, as in the case OF
the postal service, as rapidly and as
far as the good sense OF an intelligent
people and the teachings Of experience
shall justify to the end that oppres-
sion, injustice and poverty shall
eventually cease in the land. f
While our sympathies as q party of
reform are naturally upon the side Of
every proposition which will tend to
make men intelligent, virtuous and
temperate, we nevertheless regard
these questions important as they
areas secondary to the great issues
now pressing for solution, and upon
which not only our individual pros
perity, but the very existeDce Of free
institutions depend; and we ask all
men to first help as to determine
whether we are to have q republic TO
administer, before we differ rs to the Fl
upon which it is to be adj
Believing that the forces
of reform this day organized VIII
never cease TO move forward until
every wrong is remedied, and equal
privileges securely established for all
the men and women Of this country,
we declare, therefore,
/. That the union of the labor forces
Of the United States this day consum-
mated, shall be permanent ana per-