The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-09-01
A POPULIsT ADDRESS.
Cheering Words from Brave Men to SUI.
ferlng People.

ferlng People.
CHICAGO, Aug. 4.-The executive
committee of the pOpulist party which
has been in session here since the
adjournment of the silver convention,
tonight issued the following address:
To the People of the United States:
The friends of more money and less
taxes devoted to the silver dollar Of
the constitution and of our foretathers,
the opponents Of contraction, gold
standard and bond monopoly, have
just held their great convention here
in Chicago. 1t was composed of rep
resentative and patriotic men from all
parts and from all sections of the
country. The overwhelming spirit of
this convention indicated that the
whole nation is alive to the dangers
which threaten us.
The convention not only repudiated
| the idea of gold standard and a gold
basis, but unanimously committed
itself to the principle that we as popu-
i'ts have long cherished, viz: That
the law alone makes money, and that
the stamp of the government converts
sixty cents worth of silver into dol
lar equal in value to a gold dollar.
And they unanimously accepted the
doctrine that the money of the coun-
try should be adequate for the demands
of business and should expand with
the growth of population and COM
merce.
Popullsts, this convention has been
a great victory for the principles en-
bodied in the Omaha platform. The
representatives of the old parties who
were present united with us to fight
for the money of the people as against
the money of the bondhOlders. 1t is
the same old contest for the doctrines
of jefferson, Jackson, TLad Stevens,
'tiiu 1IiilCOiii, dhu III Jul 'tIiCiCHl
rights, which have been assailed by ii
foreign coalition.
The convention manifested ;,n in
tense conviction that the bondholding
and banking conspiracy, winch began
its awful work in 1873 in Il republican
congress, will now be continued, if not
cOnsummdted, ill the present demo
cratic congress with equal rapacity,
plllage and peculation.
1t is the mission of the populists to
resist this foreign invasion, which,
through corporate greed appals our
natural liberties by usurping our lands,
monopolizing our highways, absorbing
our wealth, debating our laws and
enslaving our people. We believe that
the present effort to demonetize silver
and issue more bonds, thereby 1ncreas-
ing the aggregate of our billions of
debt, all of which must be paid in gold
alone, burdening us and our posterity
with gold contracts which we never
made, is Il crime equal to that for
which kings have been dethroned and
beheaded, and for which we believe
every officer engaged therein should
be impeached and punished DIS pro-
vided by law.
Ii silver is striker down it will take
more merchandise from the business
men, more labor from the wage Garner,
and more wheat, corn and cotton from
the farmer, than ever before to pur
chase the gold dollars of the bankers.
Therefore these three classes should
unite to restrict the encroachments OF
this un-American and destructive con-
spiracy. The logic of events forces
the immediate solution of the money
question. This we recognize without
any yielding of the great principles i'll
our platform which must follow and
be settled in rapid succession in order
that our government may be wrested
from its enemies and properly restored
to its proper pcssessors.
We do not consider the money CUES
ton as settled until the authority to
issue money and control its volume
are, in the words of jefferson, restored
to the government and the people to
whom they belong. This struggle will
obliterate old party lines, tens Of
thousands Of new converts are coming
to our ranks. They should be vel
coined and organized into a mighty
campaign for '94 and 90.
Stand 10y your colors, brethren.
Events are battling for us. 1.-The
stars in their course are battling il
behalf of Sisera." Every agony of
the afflicted people is an argument for
our platform; every day confirms our
predictions. There is no safety for
the people of the United States except
in the triumph of our principles, and
victory is not far off.