The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-02-24

OF. LOUIS, EeD. Z0.-Ihe national com
mittee of the populist party, which has
| been in secret session here for the past
two days. with H. T. Taubeneck presld-
ing, concluded its work this afternoon,
and issued the following address. as the
result of its deliberations:
"The union OF the old parties under
Grover Cleveland and John Sherman has
| forced the volume of the circulating
| medium 10 the single gold standard,
| thereby enhancing the purchasing power
| of money, and depreciatDg the price ol
all the products Of labor as well as the
earnings OF the wage-workers. The power
acquired by the campaign promises of the
Democratic and Republican parties to re-
store silver to the position it occup pied as a
money metal previous to the crime OF
1873, has been used to consummate that
iDlquity. The tactics of deceiTing the
people by sham issues. which have been So
successful in the past, will be employed to
maintain the gold standard aud retire
greenbacks. The British policy of single
gold standard system of finance is con-
trary to every principal OF American in
dependence; therefore, we are opposed to
any international conference with foreign
nations to regulate the financial policy Of
this country, but favor a financial system
that is distinctively American.
1.-The issue is made by the declaration in
the Omaha platform in favor of the free
coinage of gold and silver at the ratio of
10 to l and the issuance of standard money
exclusively " by the government without
the intervenation of banks The other re-
forms demanded by the Omaha platform
are not less meritorious, because the old
parties have thrown off the mask and
made known their purpose to enslave the
people by money CONTRACTION. A declara-
tlon i'll favor of the free and unlimited
coinage of both gold and silver at the ratio
of l6 TO l, and the direct issue by the gov
ernment of legal standard paper money
redeemable in dues and taxes and of suf-
hclenJ volume TO meet the Legitimate de-
mands of our growing population and the
increase in business, and which shall be
sufficient to restore and maintain stability
ana general prices were the issues pre-
sented to the gold combination. The OBJ.
Ject of that combination is the mainten-
ance of the gold standard adopted at the
extra session of congress. the Increase of
the bonded debt, the retirement of legal
tender money issued by the government,
and the surrender to private corporations
of the power and duty of the government
to regulate the volume of the circulation.
Both The old parties will present the
tariff and other issues during the cam
paign; but they are in favor of the policy
of money contraction, which, by their
uDltCu dCGiOu Gucy nave lOT tUt
last twenty years; and they will be for or
against any and all issues which they
suppose will give them the most votes;
but when they secure the power they will
use it in the future they have done in
the past-in the interest of the gold COM
bInatiOn.
eve denounce the issue of bonds in
time OF peace as an act OF treason and us
unequalled in the history of civ
fllZaN government They pr0noSa To
drown the outcries of a plundered people
with sham battle over the tariff, so that
capitalists, corporations, national banks,
rings, trusts, watered stock, the demone.
tlzation of silver and the eXactious of
usurers may be lost sight of. They pro-
pose to sacrifice our homes, wives and
on the altar of Mammon; to de-
stroy the multitude, In order to secure COR
ruption funds for the millionaires."
The following resolutions were also
adopted:
Whereas, The so-called Wilson bill fails
to provide sufficient revenue to defray the
legitimate expenses of the government,
and thereby creates deficiency, of which
the administration will take advantage to
issue interest bearing bonds, to saddle
further burdens upon future generations
and further perpetuate the national bank
ing monopoly of the country; and,
Whereas, 1t discriminates against the
producers of raw materials in the south
west and protects the monopolists of the
east, therefore be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of the ma
tional COMMITTEES of the Peoples party
that the Peoples party senators and rep
III congress should vote
against said bill, unless it provides for said
deficiency by an income tax; and, further
Resolved, That they be requested to vote
against said bill if said deficiency is to be
supplied by the issuance of interest bear
ing bonds"