Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-09-07
REVISED poPUL1sT PLATFORM.


REVISED P0PULIsT PLATFORM.
Boiled down the populist platform
reads this way:
A millionaire deserves hanging.
All notes and a mortgage ought to be
written on dynamite, and as soon as
the borrower gets his money he ought
to be permitted to touch off the dyna-
mite and blow the dogasted, Internal
lender into kingdom come.
A piece of paper is a dollar.
Any man who helps another get mon
ey-or lends it to him himself-is a
scoundrel, and ought to lie drawn and
quartered like Il felon in the dark ages.
Every debtor Except the town bust
ness man is an angel %enslaved. and
ought to be protected in repudiating
his debts.
Tramps are titulary gods, Except
when they sleep in farm barn and rob
farm hen roosts and ravish farm fe-
males and rob farm houses) whom all
should bow down to in reverence.
Debs is Il dandy. We endorse him.
Reputation, like cleanliness, is the
next door neighbor to godliness.
Bankruptcy is the height of mundane
glory except "a offs"
Government is tyranny, and it ought
to be compelled to support everybody
who is too lazy to worl1-too cowardly
to steal, or too shallow-pated tobecome
a man of affairs on his own account.
Chicago foreign strikers are the salt
of the earth, and woe be to him who
dare compel them to behave themselves
as long as they vote the pop-anarch
ticket.
4, Employers have no rights which their
workmen are bound to respect.
Any workman who dare offer to work
where a striker has quit ought to be
stoned to death like Stephen of Scrip
tural fame.
Railroads must haul freight for less
than cost and pay the highest price for
hands-and-if they wont-why! D
'em! Confiscate them.
Coal miners should receive so per
ton for mining, and the Internal rail
roads must learn how to haul it out
here and sell it to us for Sc per ton.
Government ought to buy everything
We can't sell to anybody else, from our
wheat down to the old spawned mule,
and advance us 80 per cent. on it's max
imum valuation, a la populist ware
house scheme, and then store the truck
till it rots or dies or is sold, free of cost
and then turn over to us the other 20
per cent.
Taxes are killing the country, but the
government ought to raise a lot more
money to build more things for the
slaves.
Railroads ought to haul a man to
New York in a 100000 palace car train
equipped with $1,000 per trip service.
and fly him along at Is miles III hour
as cheaply as they freight "a hog.
Factory and shop hands who vote
the pop ticket ought to work only
eight hours a day for six days per week
and get therefor s14 perday like Home.
stead anarchists, and then the factory
proprietor must sell his wares to the
farmers on the basis of 81 wages. Ii
he don't do it kill him.
Legalize the liquor traffic in the na.
ton and so tickle the whiskeyites-but
resolve against it in state and county
convention and so try to tickle the
, prohibitionists.
; Anarchy is the only form of govern
ment ~ that ought to be maintained
Soon as we'uns get into power, then
hurrah! for the Kansas and Colorado
style.
Down with the -trusts-except thu
cordage and sugar trusts. unless the!
; whack up with our U. s. Senator Kyle
Tax the mortgages and lynch tn,
money bugs il they don't lend us lucr,
when we want it.
Oh the democrats-eXcept s,lcl
as are fools enough to turn pop unde,
promise of a "plum."
, On the Grand Old Party. Sine
\ we'uns got out of it, what's left of it ar,
all cutthroats, skunks and Lizards.
f. Give us the tsofises"-so We can .liv,
without work. We are statesmen-w
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