The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-02-14
THE chAieMAN,s APPEAL

THE cAAiRMAN's APPEAL.
Ne Calls Attention to the Omaha Declare
lions and Urges the People to Activity.
Chairman 81. E. Taubeneck of the Peo-
pies Party has issued an address which
is as follows:
On the 18th day Of December, 1898, the
Peoples Party senators and congressman.
in connection with few members of the
national committee, held conference in
Washington and resolved to establish
headquarters in that city for the cam
paign Of 1894. have completed ar
engagements to take charge of the work
and will devote my time toward advanc-
ing the cause.
Eighteen hundred and ninety -four has
dawned upon the industrial classes of
our country as dark and gloomy as 1893
closed. On the 18th day of July, 1892,
the Peoples Party convention adopted
the following as part of its preamble:
We meet in the midst of a nation brought to
| the verge of moral, political and material ruin
OOIIuPI1ou OOuluatcS the O6llOC. the leglSla-
| lures, the congress, and touches even the er-
| mine of the bench.
The urban wOrkmen are denied the right of
| organization for self protection; imported pau.
| perized labor beats down their wages; q great
hireling standing army. unrecognized by our
laws, Is established to shoot them down, and
they are rapidly degenerating into European
| conditions.
| From the same prolific womb Of government
tai injustice we breed the two classes-tramps
| and millionaires. The national power to Gre
ate money is appropriated to enrich bond
holders. A vast public debt, payable in legal
tender currency, has been funded into gold
bearing bonds, thereby adding millions to the
burden of the people. Silver, which has been
| accepted as coin since the dawn Of history, has
| been demonetized to add to the purchasing pow
er of gold by decreasing the value Of all forms
| property as well as human labor, and the sup
| ply OF currency is purpOsely abridged to fatten
usurers. bankrupt enterprise and enslave in
| dustry. vast conspiracy against mankind
has been organized on two continents, and it is
! rapidly taking possession Of the world. If not
| met and OverthrOwn at once, it fOrebodes ter
rlble social CONFUSION. the destruction of cvili-
| cation or the establishment Of an absolute des-
| potism.
| We charge that the controlling influences
dominating these parties have permitted the
existing conditions to develop without serious
effort to prevent OF restrain them. Neither do
they now promise us any substantial reform
| They have agreed together to ignore in the
coming campaign every issue but one. They
| propose to drown the outcries Of q plundered
| people with the uproar Of battle over the tar
| III, so that capitalists, corporations, national
banks, rings, trusts, watered stocks, the demon
ettzatiOn of silver and the oppression of usurers
| may all be lost sight Of They propose to sac
rifice our homes, lives and children on the altar
| Of mammOn, to destroy the multitude in order
| to secure corruption funds from the million
aires.
These were the words spoken by the
| Peoples Party 18 months since. ANY
casual observer who will read these lines
| and then reflect upon the condition Of
the wealth producers must admit that
every prediction but one has been full
filed, and that one is the "destruction of
our civilization or the establishment of
an absolute despotism." This one will
also be fulfilled if the two old parties are
to remain in power. The two greatest
opponents Alexander Hamilton ever had
in this country are John Sherman and
Grover Cleveland.
Within these 10 months the courts
have decided that labor has no right to
organize for its protection. Working.
men have been shot down in Idaho, Ten.
nessee and at Homestead. Millions OF
honest toilers have been cast out of EN-.
ployment to live upon the crumbs doled
out by that class who have absorbed the
wealth labor created.
The value of the property of the debtor
class has deprecated one-third, while
that of the creditor class has appreciated
in q corresponding ratio. Silver has been
demonetized, gold made the money Of
ultimate redemption, and now Secretary
Carlisle, without authority and without
law, increases the bonded debt.
Desolate as the conditions are, yet we
must remember that the people are re.
ceiving that for which the majority voted.
Voting is like farming-we reap exactly
what we SOW.
This government must be restored to
the people, and the people must do it.
Those sections of our country whose in.
terests are identical must become politi.
Cal allies in the coming conflict of bal.
lots.
The south and west must unite at the
polls for cause. The ballot is the only
weapon by which this government can be
restored to the people, and earnestly
request that every state, congressional,
county, precinct and schoolhouse com
mittee of the Peoples Party go to work
and organize for the coming campaign.
The committee here is now considering
"ways and means to furnish campaign
literature" Whenever this work is COM
pleted, list of the same will be publish
ed in the reform press, so that every
Populist in the land can send for copies.
would be pleased to hear from every
worker in the cause, young or old, and
also earnestly request that every Populist
lend helping hand toward restoring
this government to the people. Our cause
is growing as never before. There is
perfect harmony in our ranks every
where. II. E. TAUBENECK.
Jerry Simpsons Overcoat.
Considerable excitement has been
caused by Congressman Simpsons ex-
hibiting an old, tattered overcoat as an
object lesson in his speech on the tariff
It has been claimed that he bought the