People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-02-27

Silver, which has been accepted as coin
ever since the dawn Of history, has been de-
monetized to add to the purchasing power OF
gold, by decreasing the value OF all forms Of
property as well as human labor, and the
supply OF currency Is purposely abridged 10
fatt, usurers, bankrupt enterprise and en-
slave industry. A vast conspiracy against
mankind has been organized on two con-
tinents, and IL is rapidly taking possession OF
the world, II not met and overthrowu at
once IL f0rboGes terrible social convulsions,
the destruction Of civilization. or the estab-
lishment OF an absolute despotism. We have
witnessed for more than quarter OF GEN.
fury the struggles OF the two great political
parties for power and plumber, while
grievous wrongs have been Inflicted upon
the suffering people. We charge that the
controlling Influences dominating both OF
these parties have permitted the existing
dreadful conditions TO develop without
serious effort 10 prevent or restrain them,
Neither do Trey now promise US any sub
stantial reform, They have agreed together
to ignore, In the coming campaign, every
Issue but one. They propose to drown the
outcries OF plundered people With the up-
roar OF sham battle over the tariff so that
capitalists, corporations, national banks.
trusts, watered stock, the demonstration OF
silver, and the expressions OF the usurers
may all be lost sight Of. They propose TO
sacrifice our homes, lives and children on the
altar OF mammon; TO destroy the multitude
In order to secure corruption funds for the
milliQnaires. Assembled on the anniversary
OF the birthday OF the nation and filed with
the spirit OF the grand general chief who es-
taDllshed our independence, We seek to re-
store the government OF the Republic 10 the
hands Of "the plain people" with whose class
II originated; We assert our purposes TO be
identical with the purposes OF the national
constitution, TO form more perfect union
and establish justice, insure domestic tran
guilty, provide for the common defense
promote the general welfare, and secure the
blessings Of liberty for ourselves and our
posterity.
We declare that this Republic can only en-
dure as free government while built upon
the love OF the whole people for each other
and for the nation; that II cannot be pinned
together by bayOnets; that the Civil war Is
over and that every passion and resentment
which grew out OF 1t must die with 1t, and
that We must be In fact, as We are In name,
one united brotherhood. Our country finds
Itself confronted by conditions for which
there is no precedent In the history OF the
world Our annual agricultural productions
amount TO billions Of dolla S In value which
must In few weeks or months be exchanged
for billions OF dollars OF commodities con-
sumed in their production; the existing cur
rency supply Is wholly inadequate to make
this exchange. The results are falling
prices, the formation Of combines and rings,
the imp0veris hment OF the producing class.
! We pledge ourselves that II given power we
will labor TO orrect these evils by wise and
reasonable legislation in accordance with
the terms OF our platform.
, We believe that the powers Of government
In other words OF the peOple-shOuld be
expanded (es In the case OF the postal SER
vice. rs rapidly and as far as the good sense
OF an intelligent people and the teachings Of
experience shall justify, 10 the end that OPP
| preston, injustice and poverty shall eyentu-
ally cease in the land.
! While our sympathies as party OF reform
are naturally upon the side OF every propo-
sition which will tend TO make men intelll-
gent, virtuous and temperate, we neverthe-
! less regard these questions-impOrtant as
they areas secondary TO the great issues
now pressing for solution, and upon which
not only our individual prosperity but the
very existence Of free institutions depend,
and we ask all men to first help US TO de- err
mine whether We are 10 have Republic 10
administer, before we differ as to the con-
ditiOns upon which II Is 10 be administered,
believing that the forces Of reform this day
organized will never cease to move forward
until every wrong is righted and equal rights
and equal privileges established for all the
men and women Of this country; We declare
therefore,