The morning call., 1894-05-10
SECRETLY SIGNED.
A SOciaIistic Movement
Receives Support.
II Plans to Attempt Radical Changes
in the Government by
Lawful Means.

The National Industrial Reserve" is
the name of a new movement which is
growing along lines similar to the Coxey
plan, but which savors strongly of social
ism.
So far the movement has been conducted
in private, it is said. by the State Social
istic Society. The Fopulists are credited
with having a hand in it at the same time.
The initiatory procedure is to circulate
document which is given as follows, and
to get signatures Of men who sympathiZs
with the novel mode of campaign:
We reassert that grand old truth that "Gov-
eruments derive their Just powers from the
consent OF the governed" We believe that 1t
was lbe intention Of those noble men who
pledged their lives, their fortunes and their
sacred bonors TO establish this Govern
ment, that the will OF the people as
expressed In their sovereign capacity
as electors should be supreme, and that
it should be and remain In tact what
1t Is in name government by the people. We
further reasser that the right OF petition, either
by wrl ten document or In person, shall never
be denied the people, md that as the people
are the sonrce OF power, they nor only have the
right TO petition, but also to d. mand OF their
servants the euactme OF OF such laws as they in
their wisdom shall deem just and necessary for
the public veal
We see IN the various manifestations OF un-
rest, not a disposition TO defy constituted
authority, but determination on the part OF
the people 10 demand The rights which belong,
as biTthiights. to free people.
We view with the utmost alarm the potent
influence of corporate wealth over every de-
partment of the Government, and brlieve that
the signs OF the times indicate that we have a s
nation already left our moorings and are
drifting toward a plutOcracy. We therefore
as loyal, liberty-lovlng American citizens, ire
spective OF party affiliations, and desiring not
only the grea est good for the greatest number,
but the gTeal est good for all; and believing and
sOlemnIy affirming that no man, competent
TO labor has any right, human or divine, TO
subsisl on the products of the sbor of others,
but that every individual is entitled to an
equivalent to the full products OF his own labor,
DO hereby form ours lives Into national indus
trial reserve. ana pledge ourselves, each 10 The
other, that we Will earnestly endeayor, by all
lawful means, 10 restore the Government
to the people, with all Its fundamental
trusts, powers and obligations, as they were
tabtshed and set forth by its founders, but
which have been usurped by he powerful
private corporations, the natural enemies OF
free government, aud used by them as instru-
ments of oppression and tyranny, TO the end
that our beloved flag, the stars and stripes
shall be in fact, what II Is 10 name, the emblem
of equal rights and civil liberty, aud that this
government by the people shall not perish from
the earth.
These resolutions, which we're prepared
only about ten days ago, have already re-
ceived the signatures of several thousand
persons in Oakland and San Francisco.
Copies of them have been sent 10 some To-
calities 10 the interior, and reports are be-
ing received that they are freely signed on
every hand.