Mississippi leader. (Jackson, Miss.) 1892-1895, 1895-01-08
ST. LOUIS CONFERENCE.

The National committee OF the PeOple's
Party Issues a Strong Address.
The following address was adopted
and issued by the National Committee
of the Peoples party, at the conclu-
sion of the Conference in st. Louis
Dec. 28th and Goth:
The National Committee of the Peo-
pies party sends greeting to its consti-
tuency throughout the United States.
The rapid increase of our vote in ev-
cry part of the union and the startling
events of the past few years wildly
justify both the existence of and neces-
sity for the Peoples party. The con-
tention of the party that one of the
great needs of this country has been,
and is. an enlarged volume of circulat-
ing medium, is now practically conced-
ed by all parties and by the govern
ment. The gold power and banking
interests are insisting, through the
President and his Secretary, that the
enlarged issue of our money supply
shall be given exclusively into the
hands of the banks; that silver shall
be excluded, all treasury notes retired,
and that gold alone shall be legal
tender, thus making the monetary
question an issue which must be met
at once.
Within the present year the corpo
rations, grown arrogant because OF
their vast possession of wealth and the
exercise of unconstitutional powers,
have made war upon the people and
induced the federal courts to exercise
in their interest unusual and arbitrary
powers, induced the invasion of the
States by federal troops without the
request of either the executives of
said States or the legislatures thereof,
and are at this time, through re-
creant administration and a truculent
congress. attempting to clothe the
railroad corporations, by means OF a
pooling bill, with power to further and
and more Systematically rob, Cypress
and plumber the people, and having al
ready deprived the people OF access to
the silver mines of the country as an
independent source of money supply,
are now in the interest of banking OIL
osrcbv endeavoring to deprive them
of the right to have their government
in fhe exercise of it's constitutional
mower. issue the money OF the natlOn
and r control its volume. In the Opin-
ion of YOUR committee, these events
AFRO startling, subversive OF the llber-
ties of the citizen and destructive OF
business and social security, and ad-
herring to the Omaha platform IN all
it's interity, your committee insists up.
on the restoration of the coinage OF
cold and silver as it existed prior to
| 1S73-at the ratio of 16 to without
regard to the action OF any other ma
tion. and that all paper money shall be
issned by tho general government,
without the intervention OF banks OF
;sene the same to be full legal ten
| der.
We also declare our implacable hos
tihtv to the further issue OF interest
hearing bonds. We denounce the
pooling bill as a move toward COM
nletinG the monopoly of the transpor-
! tation. and demand that, instead, con
gress proceed to bring the railroads
under government ownership.
The power given congress by the
constitution to provide Tor the gaining
forth of the militia to execute Inc
| laws of the Union, to suppress lnsdr-
rection. ard to repel INVASION" does
not warrant the government III max
inc use of a standing army in aiding
monopolies in the oppression OF the
nublic and their employees. When
| free men unsheath the sword 1t should
he to strike for liberty, and not Tor
despotism, nor to uphold privileged
monopolies in the oppression OF the
/ poor.
We ask the people to forget al! past
political differences and unite WIN US
| in the common purpose 10 rescue the
government from the control OF mo
nopolists and concentrated weaith, 70
limit the powers Of perpetuatlon oy
cnrtaiIing their privileges and to Sc
cure the rights of free speech, Tree
press. and trial by jury-all rules, reg
rlotious and judicial dicta in deroga-
tion of either of which are arbitrary,
unconstitutional and not to be toiera-
ted by free people.
We recommend the immediate Or
oanization of an educational campaign
by the National, State aud local COM
mittees.
In addition to this address the Nat
ional Committee adopted the follow
ing resolution:
In view of the fact that the State OF
Alabama and other Southern States
are without Republican form OF gov
ernment, because of the rule OF pc,
| litical oligarchy, which is perpetuated
by monstrous frauds at the baiiot-box,
the imperative necessity of free bal
| lot and an honest one is constitution
al right, and we demand that 1t be CIV
| en-. and move that the chairman Of the