Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1894-02-22
The PEOPLES Party .

There is no tangible reason to be-
lieve that the power Of organized
wealth, as political force in our gov
ernment can be overcome except
through the medium Of third party.
That power is supreme IN the old po-
litical organizations and Is master OF
their machinery. While money and
privilege dominate our national at
fairs, the exactions upon industry will
continue TO weigh upon the masses OF
the people and the present mountains
Of private indebtedness will increase,
while the conditions which render the
Liquidation Of debt all but impossible
will become hopelessly worse. The
millions who to-day realize the doom
that hangs over nearly every form OF
industrial aspiration, and see the hui
initiating servitude Of the old parties
to the consuming rapacity Of capital,
are naturally turning for relief to the
peoples party, which as yet is I'M
trammeled by any corrupting alliance
with the worlds conspiracy Of usur-
ers.
The peoples party represents the
just aspirations Of humanity. The
corner stone of its platform Of princi-
pies is its demand for an adequate
money supply, including the free and
unrestricted coinage Of silver and
gold at the present American ratio.
This reform strikes at the root Of the
infamous process by which money
lenders are absorbing the wealth of
the world.
The power that for more than TWEEN
ty years has dictated our financial
policy, has its seat in Europe, where
it is absolute oyer industrial life
through its control of national lndebt-
edness amounting to $26,OOO,00O,000,
which with loans to states, counties,
municipalities, corporations and indi-
viduals, brings the aggregate to at
least $10O,0O0,000,0O0. That is the
power that lmperils the world to-day
and that Is paving the way for social
Cataclasms as the only escape from
new forms Of degrading servltude.
This power has obtained formula
BILE proportions by destroying the
primary function Of one of the money
metals, thus forcing a ruinous con-
traction Of the currency and imposing
on mankind an enormously enhanced
and cruelty dishonest measure of val
ues. It has involved the most stu
pendous conception and realization of
plumber that ever sprung from the
brain Of avarice and is to-day throt-
thing aud robbing the forces Of pro-
duction in our country.
The propnety of naming the cause
of silver, combined with the money
question, as the central reform to
which the peoples party is devoted,
should command unqualified recogni-
ton. Until that is won the attempt
to gain other reforms, meritorious
though they be and sure to come in
due time, will be futile. There can
be no emancipation without the con-
troll Of our finances by the people and
for the people. There is not ray of
hope except in driving the colossal
money syndicate, with its crushing
power and debauching influence, from
the government of the Uulted States.
This money question will be the
absorbing issue in our congressional
elections of the coming fall and the
claims Of the peoples party for sup
port will rest on the transparent truth
that upon this issue it alone repre-
sents the vital interests of the west
and of the masses Of its population
that while the individual opinion of
congressional candidates
may be sound on the subject, their
usefulness in Washington would be
nullifed, since the organizations to
which they would be attached are
owned bodily by the power that has
made industrial salvation a necessity.
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