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Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-01-04
THE PEOPLES PLATFORM.
Adopted In National Convention At
Omaha, July 4, 1892.


Assembled upon the 10th anniversary Of the
Declaration of Independence, the Peoples
party of America in thIir first national con-
vention. invoking upon cir action the bless
ing of Almighty God, puts forth in the name
and on behalf of the people If this country the
| following preamble and declaration of princi-
Piles:
The conditions which surround US justify
our action; we meet in the midst Of q nation
brought to the verge of moral, political and
material ruin. Corruption dominates the bal
lot box, the legislatures. the congress, and
touches even the ermine of the bench. The
people are demoralized; most of the states
have been compelled to isolate the voters at
the polling places in order to prevent universal
intimidation or bribery. The newspapers are
I largely subsidized or muzzled, public opinion
silenced, business Frustrated, our homes COW
cred with mortgages, labor impoverished and
the land concentrating in the hands of the
capitalists. The urban workmen are denied
the right of organization for self protection;
imported pauperzed labor beats down their
wages; hireling standing army, unrecog-
nized by our laws, is established to shoot them
down, and they are rapidly degenerating into
European conditions The fruits Of the toll of
millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal
fortunes for a few, unprecedented in the his
tory of mankind, and the possessors of these,
in turn, despse the republic and endanger
liberty. From the same prolific womb of gov
ornamental injustice we breed the two great
classes-tramps and millionaires.
The national power to create money is ap-
propriated to enrich bondholders; a vast pub
lie debt, payable in legal tender currency, has
been funded into gold bearing bonds thereby
adding millions to the burdens Of the people.
Silver, which has been accepted as coin since
the dawn of history, has been demonetized to
add TO the purchasing power of gold by de-
creasing the price of all forms of property as
we'll as human labor. The supply Of currency
is purposely abridged to fatten usurers bank
rupt enterprise and enslave industry.
vast conspiracy against mankind has been
organized on two continents and 1t Is rapidly
taking possession of the world. II not met
and overthrow at once 1t forebodes terrible
social commissions, the destruction of civilza-
ton or the establishment Of an absolute des-
potism.
We have witnessed for more that quarter
Of century the struggles of two great politi-
cal parties for power and plumber, while grew
GUS wrongs have been inflicted upon suffer-
ing people, We charge that the controlling
influences dominating both these parties have
permitted the existing dreadful conditions to
develop without serious efforts to prevent or
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20 help us to determine wnerner we are 10
have q republic to administer before we differ
as to the conditions upon which 1t Is to be ad-
ministered, believing that the forces Of reform
this day organized will never cease to move
forward until every wrong Is remedied and
equal rights and equal privileges securely es-
tablished for al the men and women of this
country.
We declare. therefore
That the union Of the labor forces Of the
United States this day consummated shall be
permanent and perPetual may its spirit enter
and the uplifting of mankind.
Wealth belongs to him who creates IL, and
every dollar taken from industry without an
equivalent is robbery. IF any will not work
neither shall he eat" The interests Of rural
and civic labor are the same; their enemies
are identical.
We believe that the time has come when the
railroad corporations must either own the peo-
should the government enter upon the work of
owning and managing any or all railroads we
should favor an amendment to the constitution
bywhich all persons engaged in the government
service shall be placed under a civil service
regulation of the most rigid character, so as
to prevent the increase of the power Of the
national administration by the use Of such
additional government employees
We demand a national currency, safe, sound
and flexible, issued by the general government
only; a full legal tender for all debts public
ing corporations; just equitable and efficient
means of distribution, direct to the people, at
a tax not to exceed per cent. per annum to
be provided as set forth in the subtreasury
plan of the Farmers Alliance, or some better
system; Plso by payments in discharge of its
obligati > for public improvements.
We demand the free and unlimited coinage
Of silver and gold at the present legal ratio Of
10 to /.
We demand that the amount of the circulat-
ing medium be speedily increased to not less
than fifty dollars per capita.
We demand a graduated income tax.
We believe that the moneys Of the country
should be kept much as possible in the
hands of the people, and hence we demand
that all national and state revenues shall be
limited TO the necessary expenses OF the gov
eminent economically and honestly admins
tered.
We demand that postal savings banks be es-
post of the earnings Of the people and to facfl-
itate exchange.
Transport alton being a means Of exchange
and a public necessity, the government should
own and operate the railroads in the interest
of the people.
The telegraph and telephone. like the post
office system, being necessity for the trans
mission of news, should be owned and oper-
n ed by the government in the interest of the
yeople.
The land, including all the natural sources
Of wealth, IL the heritage of all the people, and
should not be monopolized for speculative pur-
poses, and an alien ownership Of land should
be prohibited All lands now held by rail-
roads and other corporations in excess Of their
actual needs. and all lands now owned by
aliens should be reclaimed by the government
and held fuf actual settlers only.
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restrain them. NgIfner do they now promrs.

restrain them. Neither DO they now promise
US any substantial relief. They have agreed
together to ignore in the coming campaign
every issue bat one. They propose to drown
the outcries IF a plundersd people with tie
uproar of a sham battle over the tariff, so that
capitalists. corporations. national banks, rings.
trusts, watered stock, the decentralization of
silver and the oppression Of the usurers may
all be lost sight Of They propose to sacrifice
our homes, lives and children on the altar of
Mammon; to destroy the multitude in order
to secure corruption funds from the million
aire
Assembled on the anniversary of the BIRTH
day Of the nation, and filled with the spirit Of
the grand generation who established our indie,
pendence, we seek to restore the government
Of the republic to the hands Of 1.-THE plain peo-
ple,r with which class it originated.
We assert our purposes to be identical with
the purposes Of the national constitution-to
form more perfect Union establish justice,
insure domestic tranquility, provide for the
common defense, promote the general welfare
and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves
and our posterity."
We declare that this republic can only en-
dure as free government while built upon the
love Of the whole people for each other and
for the nation; that it cannot be pinned tn
gether by bayonets; that the civil war is over,
and that every passion and resentment which
grew OUT OJ IL ulc Win III, ana tDat we
must be in fact, as we are in name, a united
brotherhood of free men.
Our country finds itself confronted by con-
ditions for which there is no precedent in the
history Of the world Our annual agricultural
productions amount to billions Of dollars in
value, which must within few weeks or
months be exchanged for billions Of dollars of
commodities consumed in their production.
The existing currency supply is wholly made
Quate to make this exchange. The results are
falling prices, the formation Of combines and
rings and the impoverishment of the producing
classes. We pledge ourselves that II given
power We will labor to correct these evils by
wise and reasonable legislation, in accordance
with the terms Of our platform.
We believe that the powers of government
IN other words, Of the people-should be ex-
banded las in the case Of the postal service) as
rapidly and as far as the good sense of an in
tellgent people and the teachings of expert
ence shall justify, to the end that oppression,
injustice and poverty shall eventually cease in
the land.
While our sympathies as a party of reform
are naturally upon the side of every PROPOSE
ton wf1h will tend to make men intelligent,
virtuOus and temperate, we nevertheless re-
gard these Questions-importan rs they are
as secondary to the great issues now pressing
for solution, and upon which not only our in
dividual prosperity, but the very existence of
free institutions detends. and WeRskau men
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Right You Are.

We want more subscribers There
is no use talking, gentlemen, if you
want a good paper, and expect it to
do good, effective work, you must
not only take it and pay for it, but
rustic for Huntington Courier.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-01-04

Ex-Governor Fifer, of Illinois
once said in a speech at Joliet: "Just
80 certainly as stand here this
government will fall. All things
tend to wealth, wealth to luxury,
Injury to weakness, and weakness
TO lapse"
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-01-04
The Coming
Climax in the
DeStinieS of America

BY LESTER c. HUBBARD. 48o pages OF new
ammunition for the great reform movement.
The textbook for the Presidential cam
paign of 1892. Paper. SO cents; cloth, $3.50
The most remarkable contribution to the reform
literature of the day is "The Coming Climax" by
Lester c. Hubbard, editor [now ex-editorl OF the
Farmers Voice.. 1t is complete history anc
analysis of the causes which have produced in;
creasing poverty amid increasing wealth, aud
proves beyond the shadow OF doubt that the
results of the continuation of present social cond-
tons must be conflict, besides which the French
a style and diction fully equal to that OF Henry
George, Mr.. Hubbard adds force and earnestness
born of conviction of the extreme gravity OF the
ituation.-DeadaUoOd, S. D., Lnat9enaenf.
copies of Mr. Hubbard's work throughout the LAND
il would probably prove to be as good campaign
ammunition as they could manufacture Henry
Frank in 7aOsnfiefh Century,
THE COMING CLIMAX should be in the hands OF
every voter in the United States, and should be
read carefully and prayerfully No book has ever
been published that will effect as much good as
this one will. Read ng its truthful pages will make
a good alliance man better one, and will stir up
the uke-warm to active work: It only costs 81
cents, and is worth more than its weight in COLO
The Alliance Farmer, WtstviHf. Florida.
The COMING CLIMAX is heartily endorsed
by Ignatius Donnelly. Robert Schilling, r
NJ Humphrey. John McGovern. Mrs. Mar
ion Todd. the American Nonconformist
the Farmers Alliance of Lincoln, the Grea.
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Topeka Advocate, the Cincinnati Herald.
and many other reform leaders and journals
BY special arrangement with Charles H.
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publishers, we are able to offer the book to
our subscribers, postpaid, at so cents If
,aper or $3.50 in cloth.
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The worlds debt amounts to $780,.

The worlds debt amounts to $3.50, >
600, 900, 900. There are but seven
billions of gold and silver in exist
ence. Interest on the debt amounts
to more than the worlds annual
increase in wealth. How, then, can
the people of the world expect to
free themselves by laying the debt?
The disposition to be free is growing
greater along with all increasing
knowledge of the fact that by and
through the methods now recognized
as legal, it is an impossibilty. Man S
will is really the law. The creditor
class is but small per cent. OF the
whole 1t is quite evident. that in
the settlement that is not far distant
the interests of humanity will take
precedent over established law, or
revolution prove to be the final court
sitting in equity.--Cnion Labor
Gazette, Mitchell, SO. Oak.
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The man who does not smoke,
and to whom tobacco smoke is
offensive, has as much right to his
personal liberty" as the man who
puffs the offensive stuff in his face ;
and the man who does not drink
liquor, and the woman whose hus-
band drinks, have as much right to
ask for protection against and for
freedom from the consequences OF
strong drink, as the drinker does to
exercise his personal liberty" while
he tramples on the rights of others.
journal of Agriculture.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-01-04

An old tramp went into a house
on Elizabeth street on the West
Side the other day and asked for
something to eat. The lady was a
little religiously inclined, so she cut
him off large slice of bread, and
when she gave it to him she said,
NOW, my poor man, | give you
this for Gods sake" He took it,
turned it over in his hand and said,
"Well, madam, for Christ's sake put
some butter on it. Coin, Chicago.
Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-01-04

Let the government issue legal
tender treasury notes and exchange
them for gold if gold must be had.
This would put more money in circu-
lation and not impose an interest
bearing debt upon the people. But
these are the two points that are
now being guarded against. They
don't want any more money in circu-
lation, and they do want the inter
est-bearing debt.-The Truth, Cor
sicana, Texas.
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iNANTED-1oo, 900 PEOPLES PARTY
w Speakers for the presidential campaign.
How to educate them in time is the problem
The solution is found in
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By LESTER c. HUBBARD. 40 pages of new
ammunition for the great reform movement
The textbook for the Presidential cam
paign of 1892. Paper. SO cents; cloth, ST.. so
The morning call., 1894-09-18
BERKELEY.

The necessity for greater liberty in oper-
ating the town government is being so
strongly pressed home by It's present re-
strictions and consequent Inconvenience es
that there is 20 doubt that a change in the
charter will be made in the near future. A
petition is being signed for reincorpOra-
ton, and will soon have the requisite num-
Der of names. The question is, Shall the
new charter be for a city Of the fifth class,
similar to that Of the temporary city gov
eminent OF last year, or shall there be e
special charter adapted to the needs of the
town. Attorney Il. +. GRADER, in a series
of articles, has advocated the revision of
the present charter, with regard 80 the
present defects, and incorporation under
this special charter. it Is quite obable
That The Board of Trustees will call upon
fifteen capable freehoiders of the town to
frame such charter within few weeks.
Book of Verse.
Charles Keeler of Berkeley, who has
previously been known by his work in sci
entifc lines, has in press selection of
his verse. illustrated by the pen of Mrs.
Keller.
Peralta Fire Company will hold open
hall at its new eDgine-bouse on Shattuck
avenue. near Russell street, South Berke-
ley, on Saturday evening.
"The Brownies" Berkeley dramatic
club, will give farce, "A Band of Mon
keys" at Odd Fellows Hall on Saturday
evening, for the benefit of the Catholic
relief fund.
During the cOunt of the ballots of Pre-
cincts i, ., and 8, on Saturday, the front
door of Schmidt's real-estate office, where
the count was being done, was locked until
a remonstrance led TO the admittance of
the public.
The Board of Trustees will hold weekly
sessions from now on.
Professor Elmer G. Brown. head of the
department OF pedagogIcs. has been elect
ed member OF the Oakland Y. NJ. {. a.
The freshman class will elect officers
to-day. F:icE of Los Angeles and Olioz
Of Oakland are the two prominent caudi-
dates for class president.
In the parlors of the NJ. L. Church the
Women's Christian Temperance Union
will give basket luncheon and discuss
plans for the year. Member from Lorin
and West Berkeley will be present.
During bicycle race at Oakland on
Sunday, FL. Golf. '9S. fell from his wheel
and fractured his shoulder-blade.
The morning call., 1894-09-18
RAN INTO A TRAIN.
A Donahue Train Injuries Two Horses
and a Driver.

SANTA Rosa. Sept. 1.-THE first even
ing train from San Francisco on the Dona-
hue line arrived thirty minutes late this
evening, the result of an accident at Co.
roma. a station between here and Peta-
luna. As the train neared county-road
crossing the engineer observed four
horse team belonging to Lester Hardin,
farmer near Corona, directly on the track.
He applied the airbrakes and whistled,
but the driver was unable to move. The
locomotive struck the team. throwing one
horse in tie ditch with broken legs, and
carrying the other animal, bruised and
mangled, some distance away. The other
horses broke loose and escaped.
The driver, Henry Anderson. on his high
seat, was truck by the engine headlight
and thrown twenty feet in the ditch. He
was picked up frightfully bruised and
senseless and conveyed by the train back
to Petaluma. where, at last accounts, he
lies unconscious. Anderson is a Dane,
aged about is years, and was employed by
Hardin.
The morning call., 1894-09-18
WAR OVER CHECKS
And Hard Words About
Baggage Haulers.
RAILROADS LATEST CLAIM.
1t Wants the Company of Its
Choice Protected
AND A RIVAL THROWN OUT.
The Southern Pacific Assumes Con-
troll Over the Ferry Depots and
DefieS the Authorities.
AND A RIVAL THROWN OUT.

There is war among the baggage-sma ash
ers and some ones trunk has got to suffer.
The Pacific Transfer Company is out with
its little pull and its ally, the Southern
Pacific Company, against the Morton Spe-
cial Delivery Company.
HostIlities almost ended in an arrest or
two and resulted in the Punishment from
the Oakland ferry depot at the foot of
Market street of the dock manager for
Morton, who was given to understand that
the monopoly would tolerate no inter
ference on the part of any concern that
would not pay tribute to the power thai
has just belt-lined the water front.
The Harbor Commissioners were
dragged into the controversy, which has
been brewing ever since runner for Nor
ton checked Mr.. Something-or-other's
trunk in the very presence of Pacific
Transfer man. President Bassett of the
board holds that Morton's men have just
as much right on the wharf to handle bag
gage as have the Pacific Transfer Com
pany's muscular young gentlemen.
But the railroad company has taken up
the cudgel in favor of the latter corpora
ton, and is determined to eject any of its
Objectionable opponents who invade the
ferry depots.
La addition to doing business on the
wharf MOrton's delivery has a small off ce
10 the main ferry depot. For a long time
the railroad has been trying to get the Of
fee thrown out, but as the Harbor Com.
missiOners rent out spaces in said depot,
and have all along reserved the right TO do
so. 1t has not been in the power of the
company TO ACCOMPLISH its wishes.
The row between the various transfer
concerns has been of long standing. More
and more stringent have become the laws
set down by the Southern Pacific affecting
those companies that are not paying divi-
dends into its Golfers. Yesterday the
trouble came to head, when the manager
for Morton at the wharf was told to vacate
the wharf ana threatened with ejectment
if be did not do so.
The Southern Pacific claimed that it
leased the property and had aparfect right
to do with it as it chose, but the Harbor
Commissioners say that they simply lease
the privilege to do the business of the Ger
poration aud that it has no power to expel
one express company and harbor another.
An officer of the railroad explained that
the Morton men solicited on the wharf.
and it was for this reason that complaint
had been made against them.
All parties were very reticent, but
further DEVELOPMENTS may be looked for at
any moment which will shed light on the
inside history of the row.
The morning call., 1894-09-18
Resting Easy.
RETURNING EXHIBITS.
The Gunboat Machias TO Be Sent to
Spain and Italy.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.-THE State De-
partment is making preparations to return
to their owners the Columbian relics ex-
hibited at the Worlds Fair. 1t is expected
that the United States steamship Machias
will be ready to sail from New York
early next month. The Machias will sail
directly for Cadiz, Spain. and guard of
marines and blue-jackets will accompany
the secretary of the American legation to
the capital, where the relics will be re-
turned to the Spanish Government with
latter from President Cleveland to the
Queen Regent thanking her in behalf of
the Government and the people of the
United States Tor the loan Of the relics.
The Machias Will then 90 to Naples,
where the secretary of the American EN-
hassy at Rome will take charge of the
Vatican relics and return them to Rome.
also accompanied by naval guard and
bearing letter from the President to the
Pope,
The morning call., 1894-09-18
Tx ETELr Z MILL - AKWH.
Charges Preferred Against the Mayor
of Omaha.

OMAHA. Sept. 1.-THE hearing of Mayor
Bemis in the District Court began to-day
on the charges of impeachment preferred
by members of the City Council. The
matter grew out of a political wrangle.
The Mayor is charged with violating the
law in spending money on the starving
Kelly army and failing to prevent gamo-
ling in the city. The trial will consume
several days, and is expected to be sensa-
tonal. The Mayor is also charged with
participating in the proceeds of a con-
tract for the sale of real estate to the city.
Mayor Bemis is now serving his second
term, and regards the proceeding as merely
an effort 10 annoy him.
The morning call., 1894-09-18
SHOT WHILE RUNNING.
A Foolish Farmland Who Resisted

WOODLAND, Cal, Sept. IA farm
hand, who gave his name as Leaf Burroy.
was shot, and probably fatally, while re-
slstlng arrest yesterday afternoon. He
had been carouslDg with some friends In a
dlsreputable quarter of the town, and
created disturbance in the house of a
woman named Belle Curtis The Curtis
woman swore out warrant for his arrest.
but when Marshal Erwin and Constable
Rhodes arrived Burrows bolted. The
officers commanded him to halt. but he
continued to run. Constable Rhodes fred
at the fleeing man, but failed to stop him.
He was afterward found in barn In the
suburbs. suffering from a wound in the
abdomen. caused by the officers shot.
Burrow is still living, but the doctors con-
slider the chances of recovery as very slim.
The morning call., 1894-09-18
Will Paw the Tax.

WAsHINGToN. Sept 1.-THE Commits
sioner of Immigration received letter to-
day from. ar. MeNicho. general passen-
ger agent Of the Canadian Pacific Rail-
road, saying that all the Canadian trans
portation companies carrying immigrants
into the United States had agreed to pay
the increased tax Sl) imposed by the sun
dry civil appropriation act.