The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-07-14

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porations, the usurers, the rings and
the trusts. 1t will avail nothing to
add to the value of labor and it's pro-
ductions if the eXactions of plunderers
are permitted to increase in equal or
greater proportion.
AS our Democratic brethren had not
patriotism enough to adopt free silver
until we had popularized it, would they
not slump back to their first wretcncd
state if the Peoples Party were to stop
its missionary work?
The Democracy may be fit to assist in
handling a single temporary side issue
like free silver, but the welfare of man
kind and the interests of all the ages
demand the continued existence of the
Peoples Party Free institutions can
not survive it's destruction 1t has done
more for mankind in five years than
any other party has accomplished in
twenty-five years. All arguments have
ceased against it's principles; there is
nothing left but Misrepresentation.
1t is the only national party in the
United States. 1t has eliminated the
last lingering bitterness of the civil
war. There is no fraternal blood on
it's garments. It's mission Is education
and peace. 1t will eventually make us
one people, bound together by liga-
ments of mutual esteem and love from
the lakes to the gulf
We call upon the whole people tc
rally to it's standard. There is room
for all and heart big enough for ALL
Let dissensiOns cease. Close up the
gaps and forward to victory Let every
Populist become a missionary to pros
elyte the unthinking and convert the
mistaken. Let us meet prejudices with
facts, passion with patience and ignor-
ance with intelligence. The fiat of
God must be repeated-"Let there be
light"
We see our leading men traduced and
libeled because they will not sell us out
We must stand by them. we see oul
newspapers boycotted because they
will not assist in the destruction of the
liberties and rights of the people. We
must sustain them and spread their cir
culation everywhere.
We are engaged in the most desperate
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 rot
industry of it's reward and leave those
who produce all wealth without homes
clothes or food. The eight million far.
mers who have just perished of starva-
ton in Hindostan are not the victims
of drouth alone, but of cruel misgov-
ernment also by their English masters
who SO impoverished them that they
had no resources to fall back upon
when a failure of crops occurred. In
their miseries we read our own danger;
in their present we see our future
unless we possess more than HindoC
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the despoilers of the world.
We ask all who are in deadly earnest
in seeking reform to unite with us.
For the mere pullers of wire and seek.
ers of Office we have no place Or pa
tience 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 it has brought
dissension in our ranks, we recognize
the fact that many who favored it die
so in the sincere belief that it was best
for the country and for the party, but
while holding these views, we declare
that no convention, caucus or commit
tee of our party, shall ever again binG
us to any fusion agreement with either
the Democratic or Republican party.
We call the attention of the American
people to the fact that the national
banks under a Republican administra-
tion are now fast putting into circula-
ton vast quantity of national bank
| notes, taken out on the $262, 2,O0O,OO 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
markets. If prosperity, even temporal
| ry, comes to our people, 1t will be by
this increased money supply not by
the Dingley tariff or any other tariff
measure, as will probably 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 a con-
fiding constituency. With the anti.
election promises in favor of free silver
still ringing in the peoples ears, the
Democratic legislatures of five states
defeated bills to prohibit the making
of gold contracts.
With the suffering and dissatisfied