People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-08-18
A P0PULIST ADDRESS.
Cheering Words from Brave Men to
a Suffering People.

CHICAGO. Aug. THE executive
committee Of the POpuliSt party, who
have 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 fore
fathers, the opponents of contraction,
gold standard and bond monopoly,
have just held their great convention
here in Chicago. 1t was composed of
representative 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.
GOOD WORK DONE.
The convention not only repudiated
the idea of gold standard and a gold
basis, but unanimously committed it.
self to the principle that we as Pop
uliStS have long held and cherished,
viz: That law alone makes money,
and that the stamp of the government
converts 50 cents worth of silver into
dollar equal in value to a gold dol
lar. And they unanimously accepted
the doctrine that the money of the
country should be adequate for the
demands of business and should ex-
pand with the growth of population
and commerce.
THE ARMY INCREASES.
POpuliStS, 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, Thad Stephens
and Lincoln, and for our ancient
rights, which have been aSSailed by a
foreign coalition.
The convention manifested an in
tense conviction that the bondhold-
ing and banking conspiracy, which
began its awful work in 1873, in a Re-
publican congress, will now be con-
tinued, if not COnSumated, in 1893,
in Democratic congress with equal
rapacity, pillage andpeculation.
THE CONSPIRACY.
1t is the mission of the POpulists to
resist this foreign invasion, which.
through corporal greed, appalls 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
increasing the aggregate of our bill
lions of debt, all of which must be
paid in gold alone, burdening us and
our pOsterity with gold contracts
which we never made, is a crime equal
to that for which kings have been de-
thrOned and beheaded, and for which
we believe every officer engaged there
in should be impeached and punished
as provided by law.
A FEARFUL PROSPECT.
If silver is stricken down it will
take more merchandise from the busi-
ness men, more labor from the wage
Garner and more wheat, corn and cot
ton from the farmer than ever before
to purchase the gold dollars of the
bankers. Therefore these three class
es should unite to restrict the en-.
croachments of this un-American and
destructive conspiracy.
The logic Of events forces the i'm.
mediate solution of the money cues.
tiOn. This we recognize without any
yielding of the great principles in our
platform which must follow and be
settled in rapid succession in order
that our government may be wrested
from its enemies and properly restOr.
ed to its proper pOssessors.
FROM 1894 TO 1895.
We do not consider the money ques.
/. tion as settled until the authority tC
issue money and control its volume
are, in the words Of Jefferson, restor.
ed to the government and the people
to whom they properly belong. Thi:
struggle will Obliterate old party
lines; tens of thousands of new con-
yerts are coming to our ranks. They
should be welcomed and organized
into a mighty campaign for 1894 to
1896.
Stand by your colOrs, brethren.
! Events are battling for US. 1.-THE
stars in their course are battling in
behalf of Sisera." Every agony of the
afflicted people is an argument fol
our platform: every day confirms our
predictions. There is no safety fol-
the people of the United States ex.
J cept in the triumph of our principles,
and victory is not far off.