People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1895-10-25

nently that does not include the five
planks of its platform, for all those
planks will be found necessary to the
prosperity of the country. And if
those reforms are not made the Popu-
list party, retaining its organization,
will beg leave, gentlemen, to retire
at the end of four year, and will
concede, of course, the same privi-
lege to the o. hers.
Now, in effectipg combination
both the people and the pie eaters
are to be consulted. And the pie
eaters are much the more difficult to
manage. What Democratic, Repub
lican, Populist and Silverite people
ought to do is to effEt combina-
ton and form platform independ-
ent of the politicians. And then let
the politicians fix up the spoils mat
ter among themselves, each class
taking offices according to talent aud
the number of voters their party fur
nished the new organization or COM
bination rather. This they could
agree on if fairness was the rule.
But with the politicians l have moth
ing to do, and I take it for granted
they are willing to act for the best
interests of the country, regardless
of pie.
AS an outsider or onlooker w nose
only interest in politics is as a philo.
sophical and religious question, and
who has unbounded faith in that
power which says; "Blessed
is he who expects nothing, for he
shall not be disappointed" I make
the following suggestion, in the fal
lest confidence that no attention will
be paid it:
The one thing that is playing HI
with the people is mon poly Money
monopoly; land monopoly; transpor-
tatiou monopoly; manufacturing
monopoly BY the Northeast; wealth
monopoly aud host of minor
monopolies such as large mercantile
monopolies in the cities, beef mono
poly, ale monopoly, sugar and coffee
monopoly, leather monopoly, wheat
and flour combines and just one
thousand others. Monopoly includes
everything that is diabolical.
Then why. not bring the four cor
ners-Republicans, Democrats, Pop
ulists and Silverites together at IT,
center Of the square as an Anti
monopoly party, with one plank,
antj-monopoly, as platform. Then
let Sill critics hammer away to their
hearts content on the money mono.
poly; Republicans and Democrats on
whatever monopoly they specially
don't like ; while Populists Will go on
as usual pummelling the whole outfit
Of monopolies. In this way all the
means of grace will be used to bring
the people into the combine.
l guess this arrangement will suit
the PopuIists, for Peoples Parry
means anti-monopoly party, and anti
monopoly includes every demand of
the Omaha platform.
During the Chicago riots I made
study of the people. l found them
bristling with fight toward what they
termed monopoly" Men who all
their lives had vote d for "nonopoly"
were rather more anxious to fight
monopoly than were others. Their
sympathies were WITH labor as a ainst
capital, but they called capital "mo-
nopoly." Monopoly was their slog an.
Where they picked the term up l
don't know, but certainly they had
it, and handled it as though they had
never done anything else. thought
to myself then, what a draw an anti
monopoly party, with an anti mo
nopoly platform, would have with
the people. That one plank would
be enough, and they would
make it mean everything they didn't
like. Nothing would afford them a
greater pleasure than to vote against
monopoly; no term would arouse the
same enthusiasm, for the sentiment of