The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1893-04-07
-HE FIGHT STILL ON. !,
Gen. Weaver Declares That tho Popu.
list Vote Will Surely Succeed.

care you satisfied with the results
of the last campaign?" asked the re-
porter.
Decidedly satisfied replied the
general. 1T was a great success
from any point of view"
''Will there be any essential
changes in the third party platform
in four years?''
II know of none now. The financial
issue will occupy the forefront of the
battle until it is permanently settled.
This thing of the people making
their own money and then giving it
away to bankers at tax of one per
cent and permitting them to loan it
back to the people, to whom it be-
longs, at enormous rates of interest.
is piece OF financial folly which
will certainly soon come to an end.
And it is also morally certain that
the people will never invite back the
wildcat system. The free coinage Of
silver is also among the certainties
OF the near future. Popular opinion
is rising in that behalf like tidal
wave, and it will sweep all opposition
out of its way.
"The work Of organization is being
pushed forward in all of the states
simultaneously, and our people are
full OF hope and courage The lee
ture bureaus, circulation of reform
literature and the strengthening of
the Populist press are the order Of
the day everywhere.
1.-The Peoples party has clear sail
ing from this on. The Republican
party is passing away and can never
again rally it's forces in a national
contest 1T is sans leaders, sans
principles, sans states and sans
Offices, and no bugle call can ever
awake them to glory again. The.
Populists will occupy the field and
wage it's battle for honest govern
ment, fair elections and the abolition
of the murderous system of class laws
which is now strangling the very
life of the republic.
1.-The sole and exclusive power to
make money must be exercised bv
congress, and yet that body has let
private individuals issue their own
notes as money. They would not
give Colorado power to issue silver
currency, and yet they delegated
that power to coterie of national
bankers, who issued paper money
and called it in at once All that is
left to the people is the police power,
and even this is used to hold up the
people while the corporations so,
through their pockets, and a good
deal of this power has been farmed
out to Pinkerton thugs.
1.-The Democratic party has come
into power facing a political resolu--
ton. 1t is without any well settled
policy and is confronted with a.
treasury deficit. 1t is opposed to an
income tax, the increase of the cur
rency, and it dare not even. attempt
to carry out it's much Wanted
theories on the vexed question of the
tariff. 1t is almost million of votes
behind the combined opposition in
the late campaign. This fact demon
strates beyond doubt that the majority
of the people of the United States were
not trying to place the Democratic
party in power, and the election of
their national ticket was a mere in
cident resulting from the cross pur-
poses at which the people were work.
ing in the matter of selecting their
national administration. The Demo-.
cratic party must fail. It is not
possible for them to meet the ex-
pectations OF the people or to comply
with the demands for reform which
are now agitating the public mind.
Nor will the pendulum ever swing
back again to the Republican party.
The people have explored that
desolate caravansary and know that
there is nothing there to satisfy their
wants.
LAS a matter OF fact no old party
could deal with the new and vital is
sues. The leaders could not take up
these issues without destroying their
parties. Neither of the old parties
dare to face the silver question The
situation in the United States is par
allel to the conditions that led to the
French revolution. We have our
noblesse the same as France, and. as
in the days of Louis, the United
States has its third estate
'sOur brethren in the South ac-
quilted themselves heroically in the
late struggle and laid broad and deep
the foundation for future power and
fair government in all that section Of
the union. They are as noble a set
of men as any marshaled under any
on behalf of any cause. It is the
duty of all persons in the North who
desire fair elections in that section of
the union to rally to the support of
these men.
The Republican party is already a
thing of the past in every Southern
state, and our friends there await
with anxiety the strengthening of our
lines in the great Northwest
"Do you think, general, the
strength OF the third party is increas-
ing?"
Il certainly do he replied.
There is every evidence of prodigious
growth. There will undoubtedly be
a rapid consolidation of all industrial
forces with the great body of busi-
ness men all over the union. Trades
unions are already on the move for
political action, and the Knights Of
Labor and the various farmer organi.
zations are already SO. The tendency
is unmistakable everywhere. | con-
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