The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-12-30


albania Elections-A Campaign Of
Education.
st. Louis. Dec % -The work Of the
conference Of the national committee
Of the Peoples party with the leading
members of the rank and file came TO a
fruition tonight when that committee
submitted to the conference as the re-
suit Of the discussions Of the conference.
an address to the party and to the peo-
pie Its presentation was met by the
gathering with a shout that rang
through the hall and the endorsement
of the conference was given with a
vigorous viva yoce vote. The address
follows:
The national committee or the peo-
pies party send greeting to its con-
stituency thros ghout the United States
The rapid Increase of our vote in
every part of the Union and the start
ling events OF the past two years,
wildly Justify both the existence Of
and necessity for the Peoples party
The contention of the party that one
of the great needs of this country has
been and is an enlarged volume of
circulating medium, is now practically
conceded by all parties and by the gov
eminent. The gold power and banking
interests are insisting through the
President and his secretary that the
enlarged issue of our money supply
shall be given exclusively into the
hands of the banks; that silver shall
be excluded, all treasury notes retired
and that gold alone shall be legal
tender, thus making the monetary ques-
ton an issue which must be met at
onces
Arrogant Corporations.
Within the present year the corpora
lions, grown arrogant because on tfle
vast possessions of wealth and the exer-
else of unconstitutional powers have
made war upon the people and induced
the federal courts to exercise in their
interest unusual and arbitrary powers,
induced the invasion of the states 10y
federal troops without the requests of
either the executives Of such states or
legislatures thereof and are at this time,
through a recreant administration and
a truculent. Congress, attempting to
clothe railroad corporations, by means
Of pooling bill, with power TO further
and more systematically rob and plum
der the people and having already de-
prived the people OF access to the silver
mines of the country as an Independent
source of money supply, are now. in
the interest of a banking o;igarchy,
endeavoring to deprive them of the
right to have their government, in the
exercise of its constitutional power, is
sue the money of the nation and control
its volume.
Restoration of Silver.
In the opinion of your committee
these events are startling, subversive
of the liberties of the citizen and des-
tructiye of business and social security;
and, adhering to the Omaha platform
in all Its integrity, your committee in
sists upon the restoration of the coin
age of gold and silver as, it existed
prior to 1S79-at the ratio of 16 to i
without regard to the action of any
other nation and that all paper money
shall be issued by the general govern
ment without the intervention of banks
of issue, the same to be a full legal
tender.
We also declare our implacafble hos
tility to the further Issuance of interest
bearing bonds.
We denounce the pooling bill as a
move toward completing the monopoly
of transportation and demand that in
stead Congress proceed to bring the
railroads under government ownership.
! The power given Congress by the
constitution, "to provide for the call
| ing forth of the militia to execute the
laws of the Union, to suppress insur-
rections, to repel invasions, does not
| warrant the government in making use
| of a standing army in aiding monopol-
| les in the oppression of the public and
their employees. When free men un-
sheath the sword it should be to strike
| for liberty, not for despotism, not to
uphold privileged monopolies in the
oppression of the poor. We ask the
people to forget all past political diff
! ferences and unite with us in the COM
mon purpose to rescue the government
| from the control of monopolists and
concentrated wealth, to limit the pow
ers of perpetuation by curtailing their
privileges and to secure the rights OF
a free speech, free press and trial
by jury-all rules, regulations and jul
dicial dicta in derogation of either OF
which are arbitrary, unconstitutional.
and not to be tolerated by a free peo-
pll
We recommend the immediate organ.
| ization of an educational campaign by
the national, state and local com
mittees.
In addition to this address the ma
tional committee adopted the follow
ing resolution:
AIabama's Governments.
| In view Of the fact that Alabama
and other southern states are without
a republican form of government be-
cause of the rule of a political dig.
archy, which is perpetuated by mon
strous frauds at the ballot box, the
imperative necessity of a free ballot
and an honest count is constitutional
right and we demand that it be giver
and move that the chairman of. the
national executive committee appoint
"a committee of three to submit evi
dence to the press of the country an6
to Congress to substantiate this alarm
| ing and revolutionary condition thai
! they may be awakened to the threat
| enings of peril caused by this existing
| autocratic anarchy in the south. Tht
| following were appointed, J. c. Man
ming, Alabama, chairman; Henry d
| Lloyd, Illinois; Lee Crandall, Ala
| bama-
This mornings session Of the Populis
conference opened with no regular bus
mess at hand, pending the reports o.
| the committees. By unanimous con
sent the temporary officers were con
| tinued as the permanent officers. A
/ committee of five to prepare a plar
for a methodical campaign of educa
ton, with T. M. Byron, of Iowa, a:
chairman, was appointed. Considera
BILE time was occupied by remarks upol
various subjects. including the recen
election in Alabama, educational cam
paigns, etc.
The committee on educational cam
lpaiSn reported in favey of the club Q.