Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-26
THE P0PULB1 PLATFORM.
Where, Oh! Where is It?
$. M. Owen Fails to Say
Anything About 1t.

Many Republicans and Democrats
attended the speech OF s.. M. Owen
Monday night in the hopes that the
leader of the Populists would tell
something about what the POpu-
lists propose to do if they are given
the control of the government, but
all were surprised that the head I'll
the party did not make any state
ment whatever as to what would
lie done further than that "a tonic
would be administered to the pa
tient.' He did not even go to the
extent of once naming the platform
on which he is running. Is it posi-
BILE that u leader will not even tell
the people what is intended to take
place? Owens statement that
parties are blindly following their
leaders without knowing where,
and his admonition to them to 90
50 no more would necessarily turn
them from his party as defined in his
speech for he did not make Onestate-
ment as to what will be done aside
from the administration of u little
tonic" the kind not even being
named.
Mr.. Owen may first want to dis
organize government and after it
is disorganized devise some new eX-
pertinent for reorganization, or he
may not have any plans except to
get his party into power. and then
find one what will he the easiest
way to continue in power and shift
from one thing to another and keep
every thing in a state Of suspense
and bring disaster on the state OF
Minnesota. The people OF Minnesota
are too intelligent to follow in the
foot steps of Nebraska, Kansas
and Colorado. The experience OF
those states was 50 costly that Min
nesota cannot follow and pay 50
dearly for the experience.
II the Populist rule Mad been sue
cess, why would the last election
have turned down and out the Pop
ulists of Kansas? Kansas never
was in such misery as under the
Populists, and the population Of
that state discovered during their
administration the reason that
prosperity was impossible and hum
dreds of farmers lost their all when
their pretended friends were in pow
err. No party has a right to ask the
people for support until it has
platform on which to stand, and
that platform must be reasonable
and consistent. II it is such that
the party leader does not once call
attention to it in a speech to get
votes it can be set down as unsafe.
If Republican or Democratic
speaker should fail to refer to the plat
form of the party it would not be
strange for every American citizen
knows their claims, but for
speaker, and the leader Of the party
at that, advocating q new system,
and one that has failed wherever
tried. to occupy the entire evening
in a political speech and never so
much as let the voters know what
is going to be done by the new party
is a little too confident in the credu-
lily of the people. No new party
has a right to ask the public support
without naming the method of the
intended reforms, and should a
party be successful in getting control
under such circumstances 1T follows
as q matter of course that all bust
ness becomes decentralization bust
ness presupposes sound basis on
which to figure; and to figure from an
unknown basis is impossible, con-
seQuently when an uncertainty ex-
lists as to future legislation business
becomes dull and enterprise ceases
and all wait for time of certainty
and the poor are least able to stand