The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1895-01-11
Manifesto from National Committee

The National Committee of the
Peoples party as the result of the
resent conference at st. Louis issued
the following address:
"The National Committee of the
Peoples party sends greeting to its
constituents throughout the United
States. The rapid increase of our
vote in every part of the Union
and the startling events Of the past
two years amply justify both the
existence of and the necessity for
the Peoples party. The contention
of the party that one of the great
needs of this country has been and
is an enlarged volume of circulating
medium is now practically conceded
by all parties and by the govern
ment. The gold power and bank
ing interests are insisting through
the President and his Secretary,
that the enlarged issue of our cur
rency supply shall be given eXclu
sively into the hands of the banks;
that silver shall be excluded, all
treasury notes retired, and that
gold alone shall be a legal tender,
thus making the monetary question
an issue which must be met at once.
''Within the present year the
corporations, grown arrogant be-
cause of their vast possessions of
wealth and the existence of uncon-
stitutional 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 requests of the executives of
said states or the legislatures there
of, and are at this time, through a
recreant administration and a true
ulent Congress, attempting to clothe
the railroad corporations by means
of a pooling bill with power to
further and more Systematically
depress and plumber the people,
and having already 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 oligarchy
endeavoring to deprive them of the
right to have their government, in
the exercise of it's constitutional
powers, to issue money, of the
nation and control it's volume. In
the opinion of your committee these
events are startling, subversive OF
the liberties of the citizen and
destructive of business and social
security.
"Adhering to the Omaha plat
form in all its integrity, your COM
mittee insists upon the restoration
of the coinage of gold and silver as
it existed prior to 1898, at the ratio
of 16 to /, without regard to the
action of any other nation, and that
all paper money shall be issued by
the general government without the
intervention of banks of issue, the
same to be a full legal tender. We
also declare our implacable hostility
to the further issue of interest
bearing bonds.
eve denounce the pooling bill
as move toward completing the
monopoly of transportation, and
demand that, instead, Congress
proceed to bring railroads under
government ownership.
"The power given Congress by
the Constitution to provide for
calling forth the militia to execute
the laws of the Union, to suppress
instructions, to repel invasions,
does not warrant the government
in making use of IA standing army
in aiding monOpolies in the oppres-
sion of the people. When freemen
unsheathe the sword it should be
to strike for liberty, not for des-
potism, nor uphold privileged mo-
nopolies in the oppression Of the
poor.
eve ask the people to forget all
past political differences and unite
with us in the common purpose 10
rescue the government from the
control of monopolists and eoncen-