The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-01-24
FROM TAUBENECk.
Headquarters Established al
Washington. National Com
,nittee Getting Ready
FOR Business

b1c peoples pifJy ScHdUOIS anu CO1
greSSmen in connection with few
members of the national committee,
held conference in Washington,
d. G., and resolved to eSta bliSh head
quarters in this city for the cam
paign Of 1894. I have completed ar
rangement to take charge of tH
work, and will devote my ZINE
towards advancing the cause.
Eightee n.hundred and ninety
four has dawned upon the industrial
classes of our country, as dark and
gloomy as 1898 has closed. On the 4th
day of July, 1892, the first peoples
party convention adopted the follow
ing as part of it's preamble:
eve meet in the midst of nation
brought to the verge Of moral, pc
litical and material ruin. Corrup-
tion dominates the ballot box, the
legislature, the congress, and touch
es even the ermine Of the bench.
The urban workmen are denied
the right of organization for self pro-
lection: imported pauperized labor
beats down their wages; a hire
ling standing army, unrecOgnlzed
by our laws, is established to shoot
them down, and they are rapidly de-
generating into European condi-
tiOnS.
From the same prolific womb of
governmental injustice we breed the
two great classes-tramps and mill
ionaireS. The national power to
create money is appropriated to en-
rich bOndholderS. A vast public debt
payable in legal tender currency, has
been funded into gold bearing bonds,
thereby adding millions to the bur
den 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 decreasing the value of all forms
of property as we'll as human labor,
and the supply Of currency is pur
pOSely abridged to fatten uSurerS,
bankrupt enterprise and enslave in
dustry. A vast conspiracy against
mankind has been organized on two
continents and is rapidly taking pos
session of the world. If not met and
overthrow at once it fOrbodeS ter
rible political conyulsion, the de-
struction of civilization, or the
establishment of an absolute des
potism. = \
We charge that controlling infiu-
enceS dominating both these parties
have permitted the existing dread
tuI conditions to develop without
serious effort to prevent or restrain
them. Neither do they 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 a plundered people with
the uproar Of d battle over the tariff,
so that capitalists, corporations, ma
tional banks, rings, trusts, Watered
stocks, the decentralization OF silver,
and the oppression of usurera may
all be lost 81 sht Of They propose to
sacrifice our homes, lives and child
rem on the altar of MammOn; TO de
strOv the multitude in order to Sc
cure corruption funds from the mill
iOnaireS.'
These are the words spoken by the
peoples party eighteen months since. !
Any casual observer who will read
these lines, and then reflect upon
the condition of the wealth produc-
ers, must admit that every predic-
tion, but one, has been fulfilled and
that one is the "destructiOn of our
civilization Or the blishment 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 every had in this country
are John Sherman and Grover Cleve-
land.
Within these eighteen months the
courts have decided that labor has
no right to organize for it's protec-
ton. Workingmen have been shot
down in Idaho, Tennessee, and at
Homestead. Millions of honest toll
ers have been cast out of employ
ment to live upon crums 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 a cores
ponding ratio. Silver has been de-
monetized, gold made the money of
ultimate retention, and now Sec
rotary Carlisle, without authority
and without law. increases the
bonded debt.
DeSOlate as the conditions are, yet.
we must remember that the people
are receiving that for which the
majority voted. Voting is like