People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-11-12

must sustain them aud Sprssd their Gig
eulation everywhere.
We are engaged III the most desper-
ate battle ever waged in the world. 1t
is the conflict of the few armed with
gigantic powers against the many. 1t
signifies the exploitation of labor by
the idle rich, so that those ''who toll
not, neither do they spin," shall rob
industry of its reward and leave those
who produce all wealth without homes,
clothes or food. The eight million far
mers who have just persisted of starva-
ton In Hindostan are not the victims
of drouth alone, but of cruel misgovern-
ment also by their English masters,
who SO imp overished them that they
had no resources to fall back upon
when failure of crops occurred. In
their miseries we read our own dangeri
in their present we see our future
unless we possess more than Hindoo
capacity to defend ourselves against
the despoilers of the world.
We ask all who are in deadly earnest
in seeking reform to unites with u.s.
For the mere pullers of wires and seek
ers of office we have no place or pa
thence. When humanity is sinking into
the abyss it is of no moment whether
the duty on calico is half penny more
or less,
When we are utterly opposed to fu-
sion, and know that 1t has brought
dissension in our ranks, wosrecognize
the fact that many who favored it did
so in the sincere belief that IL was best
for the couotry and for the party, but
while holding these views, we declare
that no convention. caucus or commit
tee of our party, shall ever again bind
us to any fusion agreement with either
the Democratic or Republican party.
We call the attention of the Ameri-
can people to the fact that the national
banks under Repu blican adminiatra-
ton are now fast putting into circula-
ton a vast quantity of national bank
notes, taken out on the S262, 900, 600 of
Cleveland bonds, which, though adding
TO the burden of debt and reaching cir
culation by high interest, furnishes an
increased supply OF money and better
pricing opportunity on the American
ry, comes to our people, it will be by
this increased money supply-not by
the Dlngley tariff or any other tar
measure, rs will proba bly, soon be
claimed by the Republican politicians.
We believe that no reliance can be
placed in the promises of those who
control and manipulate the policy and
action of the two old parties. They
have broken every pledge and violated
every trust reposed in them by con-
iding constituency. With the anti
election promises in favor of free silver
1till ringing in the peoples ears, the
Democratic Legislatures of Ave States
defeated bills to prohibit the making
Of gold contracts.
With the suffering and dissatisfied
rank and file of those parties, we are
in hearty sympathy and will gladly
welcome them into the Peoples party.
We reaffirm the principles enunci-
ated in the platforms of our party in
the full belief that when enacted into
law they viii produce universal pros
perity.
We reafirm the previous declarations
of our party in favor of the initiative
and referen I'M and recommend thatthe
Peoples pa y adopt this system in all
party proceo dings, believing that the
direct control of legislation by the peo-
pie themselves is the only remedy for
corruption in party management as
well as in the lawmaking power, by
corporate wealth. now SO universal in
this countr7 We look upon this as
the most important question now be-
fore the Am rican people, since 1t in
wolves the continuance OF frsa institu~
tions.