Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1894-09-01
Revised Populist Platform.
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From the South Dakota state Journal
Boiled down the populist platform

Doileu uo"h thc PoPuiiot Piahoitn
reads this way:
A millionaire deserves hanging.
All notes and mortgage ought TO be
written on dynamite, and as soon as the
borrower gets his money be ought to be
permitted to touch offthe dynamite and
blow the dogasted. Internal lender into
kingdom come.
A piece Of paper is dollar.
AIRY man who helps another get mon
ey-or lends it to him himself-is
scoundrel, and ought 10 be drawn and
quartered like felon in the dark ages.
Every debtor, Except the town busi-
ness man is an angel enslaved. and
ought to be protected in repudiating his
debts.
Tranps are titulsry gods, Except
when they sleep in farm barn and rob
farm hen roosts and ravish farm females
and rob farm houses whom all should
boz down to in reverence.
Debs is a dandy. We indorse him.
Repudiation-like cleanliness, is the
next door neighbor to godliness.
Bankruptcy is the height Of mundane
glory except "a OTIS"
Government is tvrany, and it ought to
be compelled to support everybody who
is too lazy TO work-too cowardly TO
steal or too shallow-psted to become 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.
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 Scriptur-
al fame.
Railroads must haul freight for less
than cost and pay the highest price for
hands-and-ifthey wont why! D--n
e | Confscate them.
Coal miners should receive $1,000 per
ton for mining, and the internal rail
roads must learn how to haul it out
here and sell it to US for $500 per ton.
Government ought to buy everything
we cant sell TO anybody else, from our
wheat down to the old spawned mule,
and advance Us so per cent on its maxi
mum valuation :. la popnlist warehouse
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 lot more
money to build more things for the
slaves.
Railroads ought to haul a man to New
York in 100000 palace car train
equipped with $1,000 per trip service,
and fy him along at IS miles an hour as
cheaply as they freight hog.
Factory and shop hands who vote the
pop ticket ought to work only eight
hours day for six iays per week. and
get therefor Sl4OO per day like Home
stead anarchists and then the factory
proprietor mus. sell his wares TO the
farmers on the basis of 81 90 wages. Ii
he don't do it kill him.
Legalize the liquor traffic in the ma
ton and so tickle the whiskyites-but
resolve against it in state and county
convention and so try and tickle the
prohibtionists.
Anarchy is the only form ofgovernment
(?) 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 the
Cordage and Sugar trusts, unless they
whack mp with our L. $. Senator Kyle.
Tax the mortgages and lynch the
money bugs if they don't lend us lucre
when We want it.
D--n the democrats-except such
as are fools enough 70 turn pop under
promise of plum"
D-n the Grand Old Party. Since
we'uns got out Of it what's left of it are
all cutthroats, skunks and Lizards.
Give us the "ofises"-so we can live
without work We are statesmen-we
are.
This campaign is an educational one.