The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-07-18

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| the ownership of real estate by non-resid-
| ents and aliens should be discouraged by
proper legislation, and that the time of
| payment of taxes should be semi-annual
| Seventh-We demand the taxation of, the
| mining lands situated in this state, SO that
| they will contribute equally with other prop
| erty to the support of the state and local
| governments.
Eighth-Legislation has been attended
| with such venality, in the interests of cor
| porations, that we demand that the people
| shall have the right to initiate needed mea-
| sureS of legislative reform, and that they
| shall have the right, by referendum. to
| veto, at the ballot box, any law inimical to
| their interests.
| Ninth--That, inasmuch as the extension
! of the right Of suffrage to women in school
affairs has been productive of excellent re-
| suits, we demand that there be no limta-
| ton upon suffrage dependent upon sex, be-
| lieving in the doctrines of 1776, that repre-
sentation should accompany taxation
Tenth-We demand the naturalization OF
the liquor traffic and it's management by
the state without profit.
Eleventh-That we reaffirm that we are
opposed to the use Of public revenue or
funds for sectarian purposes of any kind
| whatever
ENDED WITH RESOLUTIONS.
Resolved, That we are in favor of estab-.
fishing in our state y judicious manage
ment OF our native forests preventing their
further monopolizations, preventing fires
and conserving our water systems for the
penent of the people at large.
resolved. Tha we recognize the injus-
ice and wrong which monopoly has infiict-
eu upon the workingmen and women OF
tnls country, and we extend our sympathy
10 all VINO are endeavoring to prevent OPP
preston, and to check the downward tend
ency of wages already too small to sustain
lie and honor. We extend our sympathy
TO organized labor in it's humane efforts
10 resist the aggressions of organized mon
opoly; and while condemn violence and
laWIessness, we believe that organized labor
IS in no sense responsible for the acts of
the mob element with which a hireling
press has falsely sought to connect it.
| we therefore recommend to our suffering
| countrymen, especially those Of the labor
Ing classes, that peaceful and effective
| remedy for the wrongs which, in this coun-
try, the ballot gives to free men, and
winch destroys no property except watered
STOCK and Injuries no values except those
OF fiction and fraud.
Resolved, That in the United States it
is not q crime for the great mass of the
people to unite to improve their material
condition by peaceful and lawful means;
and we cannot but regard the arrest Of
Mr. Debs and his associates unwse
and unjust step; and a dangerous encroach-
ment of the federal judiciary upon the
rights and liberties of the people.
s. NJ Owen was brought in by the COM
mittee, and a roar went up from the con-
vention he took the floor.
MIR. OWENS REMARKS.
If man who had scaled all the heights
of greatness, had drunk at all the founts
OF power. and tasted all the sweets of
glory; if he had been accustomed to re-
ceiving applause and adulation all his life,
such a reception as this, from a convention
so large, intelligent enthusiastic and patri-
otto as this, would, it seems to me, compel
him to declare this the proudest moment
of his life How am l, then, to whom such
an experience never before came, to appro-
priately express myself? l do thank you
most warmly for this evidence of your re-
gard and confidence, but / do not feel that
l deserve lido not feel, in fact, that it
| can be personal to me, because so many Of
| you do not know me personally, but that
it comes to me because you think that
through me you are teStifying your love
| for and devotion to principles that you be-
| lieve must become operative if this republic
| is not to perish from the face of the earth.
l feel the more complimented by your
confidence in me when l realize in what
deadly earnest you are; when l recall what
sacrifices many of you made to get here
and engage in this work, and when realize
that you are inspired by the patriotism
that the citizens of a republic must feel if
their government is to be perpetuated.
am reminded of conventions much like this
consisting of men much like you, in the
formative days of the Republican party
In its earnestness, in it's enthusiasm in its
devotion to principle, this convention re-
minds me of those whose members We're
resolved upon the emancipation of four
million black slaves. But you are engaged
in more important, higher, holier
cause than they were-the Industrial and
financial emancipation of many more mill
ions of higher race.
There such strong analoaies between
those days and. these that l must briefly
refer to them. From 1852 to 1860 the two
old parties, Wing and Democrat, were so
allied to and dominated and controlled by
the political power of human slavery that
neither of them was disposed or had the
least disposition to take any step towards
the destruction of that power or towards
the overthrow of the great crime of slavery
ltself therefore, a new party a ne
cessity, and the Republican party was born
Now, the two old parties Republican and
Democratic, are so allied to and
dominated and controlled by the po-
litical power Of monopoly, more
subtle. but in many ways a more oppres-
sive master of men than the old slavery
that neither of them is disposed or has the
least disposition to take any step towards
the destruction of that power. Therefore
| it as logically follows now as it Gid in 1856
that a new party is a necessity, and so the
Peoples Party is born. 1t needs no argu-
ment to prove the subserviency of the two
OLD parties today to the political power of
citadel
OF monopoly, or of plutocracy, which is the
same thing, and when close enough to the
breastworks You will see crouching behind
them, elbow touching elbow, a Democratic
and Republican leader of their respective
parties. Their interests, their sympathies
are of one blood, and it is inevitable that
they be found fighting together
When l speak of those two old parties I
do not include the rank and file of either
for there will still be found there as good
men as God ever made as honest as patri-
otto, DESTROYS of good government as we
are, but they are mised, so blinded by
party prejudice that they are incapable of
seeing what else would be plain to them
They do not see that as it was necessary
to break away from the old parties in the
sos to stand in opposition to human slave
ry, so it is now necessary to break away
from the old parties to stand in opposition
to the political power of monopoly that is
prostituting this whole government to its
service.
1t is no playing at politics. that the
Peoples Party is engaged in; it is not only
serious but glorious work 1 comprehend
fully the seriousness of the impending con-
flict; feel the weight of the responsibility
you have by your action here laid upon my
shoulders; l appreciate fully the strength
and the disposition of opposing forces but
none of these considerations affect me, for
1 know that you, the members of this con-
vention, and that mighty constituency be-
hind you are with me, and that is enough.
Monopoly, the political power of which we
must destroy, is banded together for Of
fensive and defensive warfare. Attack one
monopoly. and instantly see scurvying
across the county from all directions all
other monopolies, Fastening to the rescue of
their attacked brother. And therefore the
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