The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-12-29

OF Tie recommendations OF the Nation
al Organization Committee, as we'll as
to reunite the members of our own
| party, not day can be lost. The
| least procrastination now is sure sur
! render in advance to either one OF tho
old parties, it makes no difference
which. to the moneyed and privileged
| oligarchy, but to the industrial classes
! it means continued enslavement. With
the growing impoverishment of our
, people, it means, with the rapidly in
| creasing power of the moneyed lords,
a corresponding inability of the people
| from year to year to understand and
| throw off the yoke that binds them.
! Completing at once the organization
| as Indicated by the above recommended
| lions will give party to which all
lovers Of equality can flock, and by
! means Of which the power of the mon
i eyed oligarchy for evil and oppression
; may be overthrown. Our people will
never have equality OF opportunity I'M
| til the railroads for the distribution Of
the products Of labor are thrown equal
| ly open to all alike. Equality in the
use OF our railroads is not insured by
| the government to all alike. Nor can
| there be an equality of opportunity
While leaving our monetary system to
a great degree to the dictation of the
moneyed oligarchy we have measure
of values that is made to grow steadi-
| ~ longer, and thus deprive debtors of
much Of the product of their toll that
is justly theirs, and confer upon cred
itors the special privilege of mulcting
their debtors The remedy for this in
| equality is the control and regulation
| OF our measure of value by the people
in place of by the moneyed oligarchy;
just as the remedy for the inequality
arising out Of the monopolization of
our railroads by the speculative cliques,
is the control and operation of our rail-
roads by the people, and in the inter
est of the whole people, in place Of
by the cliques and in the interest of
! such cliques-the trusts and pools that
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! put faith in our people, He who with
| holds that faith is an enemy Of demo-
| cracy. Our people have higher sense
OF justice and regard for the rights of
all, equally, than have our courts TOO
! often, sutServient to the moneyed
ollgarchy. We would rather entrust
| the regulation of our measure Of value
to the people, who, there is no reason
| to believe would abuse that power.
than to the moneyed oligarchy chat has
abused it. The free coinage of silver
is only palliative. So even granting,
what is doubtful, that the Democratic
party will remain true to the cause Of
| silver, yet that will be no earnest pro.
| lection to our people from the en-
| croachments of the moneyed ollgarchv
| That will give no promise Of restoring
| and insuring to our people an equality
! of opportunity in the production and
| enjoyment OF this worlds goods OF
| right every mans labor is his own, and
| the fruits thereof are his own free from
| despollment. And such rights are not
| observed when our railroads are man
aged so as to confer special privileges
| SO to look to either of the old parties
| for the protection Of these rights is
absurd, for both find easy tolerance for
the injustices perpetrated by our rail-
| roads, injustices that result more than
anything else in the building up of
| trusts and monopolies. Such trusts
and monopolies they may attack with
invective. but SUCH ATTACKS ARE
| PUERILE when those who make them
have not the courage or desire to open
the railroads to the equal use Of all
and take away the special privileges
| that build up such trusts.
So for protection against the in
| equallties that are building up the mon
| eyed oligarchy, sapping the vitality of
| cur people, and SO threatening the life
! OF the republic, we must look to the
Peoples party. To save the republic.
| overthrow the moneyed oligarchy, re-
store equality, an equality OF opportun-
1ty in the race for wealth, to all citi-
zens Of the republic. and so raise the
crushing weights that have stifled en-
terprise and industry and bring back
| prosperity and happiness to our peo-
| pie is the great opportunity of the
| Peoples party.
| CARDINAL TENETS OF POPULISM
EXPOUNDED.
The Peoples party is the only party
| that demands equality of opportunity
| to all men; that special privileges be
permitted to none. The Peoples party
is the only party that puts human
rights before property rights, and de-
MES the right of the few to enrich
themselves by despoiling the many.
| Unquestionably both the old parties
make such professions but such pro-
LESSONS both are equally false The
| Republican party once opposed negro
slavery; 1t now raises no hand against
the moneyed oligarchy of today, but
rather lends itself to strengthen the
| letters binding mankind in bondage.
So also does the Democratic party give
many proofs of it's readiness to tolerate
| the aggressions of this same money