The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1894-02-03
THE BU0LE SOUNDS.
An Address - the People nrem Peuu'
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~ Aeeo4 u1to91
Chairman II. e. Taubeneck Of
the peoples party, with headquar.
ters at Washington City, has issued
the following stirring address, the
bugle call for the populists to fall
into line for tho coming great po-
litical battle:
On the 18th day of December,
1898, the Peoples party Senators
and Congressman, in connection
with few members of the National
committee, held a conference in
Washington, and resolved to estab-
lish headquarters in this city for
the campaign of 1894. I have com.
pleted arrangements to take charge
of the work, and will devote my
time toward advancing the cause.
Eighteen hundred and ninety -four
has dawned upon the industrial
classes Of our country as dark and
gloomy as 1893 closed.
PEOPLES PARTY DECLARATION.
On the 4th day of July, 1892, the
Peoples party convention adopted
the following as part of it's pream-
BILE:
1--WE meet in the midst Of q ma
ton brought to the verge Of moral,
political and material ruin. Corrup-
ton dominates the ballot, the Leg
islature, the Congress, and touches
even the ermine Of the bench. : =
THE urban workmen are denied
the right OF organization for self
protection; imported .pauperized
labor beats down their. wages; a
great hireling standing army, un-
recognized by our laws, is estab-
lished to shoot them down and they
are rapidly degenerating into Eu-
ropean conditions.
From the same prolific womb of
governmental injustice we breed
the two classes-tramps and mill
ionaires. The national power to
create money is appropriated to
enrich bondholders. A vast public
debt payable in legal tender cur
rency, has been funded into gold.
bearing bonds, thereby adding mill
ions 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 power Of gold by de-
creasing the value of all forms of
property, as wall as human labor,
and the supply of currency is pur.
posely abridged to fatten usurers,
bankrupt enterprise and enslave
industry.
A VAST CONSPIRACY
Against mankind has been organ
lied on two continents and it is
rapidly taking possession of the
world. If not met and overthrown
at once, it forbodes terrible social
convulsion, the destruction of civ
ilization or the establishment of an
absolute despotism. = =
1--WE charge that the controlling
influence dominating these parties
have permitted the existing condi-
lions to develop, without serious
effort TO prevent or 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 promise to drown the
outcries of a plundered people with
the uproars Of battle over the |
tariff, so that capitalists, corpora
lions, national banks, rings, trusts,
stocks, the demonstration
Of silver and the oppression of usu-
rers may all be lost sight of. They
propose to sacrifice our homes, lives
and children on the altar of man.
non; to destroy the multitude in
order. to secure corruption funds
rom the millionaires.
PREDICTIONS.
"These were the words spoken !
~ the Peoples party Eighteen
months since. Any casual observer
Who will read these lines, and then
effect upon the condition of the
wealth producers, must admit that
'very prediction, but one, has been
and that one is the 'destruc-
ion of our civilization or the estab-
ishment of an absolute despotism.
This one will also be fulfilled, i'll
he two old parties are to remain in
power. The two greatest expon-
'nts Alexander Hamilton ever had |
q this country are John Sherman
md Grover Cleveland.
within these eighteen months
he courts have decided that labor