The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1898-09-14

politicians, we have cast aside all prece-
dents and go directly to the people. We
will end the tricks of the Office seekers by
putting our national ticket in the field at
once, and commencing anew the campaign
of education which gave us, In the first two
years Of our existence, nearly two million
votes.
We believe the soul is bigger than the
pocketbook. We address ourselves to the
reason of men and their love of country.
We have nothing but kind words for DEM
ocrats and Republicans individually. We
beg them to join our ranks and help us
fight the battles of mankind. For those
who, eager for immediate results, have in
nocently left us and merged with the enemy
and help on our decentralization. we extend
the open arms of invitation and reconcilia-
ton. We ask them, for the sake Of the
great truths which fired their hearts In
1892 to be with us in 1898 and forever after.
If the birth of our party was demanded by
events six years ago, circumstances clamor
in laundering tones for it's continuance to-
day. The whole experiment of self-govern-
lnent is at stake. We about to add to
our population as many millions of aliens
and strange people as our whole voting
force amounts to, and no one can say how
soon these will be dragged to the ballot
box by the money power, to bury our lib
critics in universal ruin.
BY all the dreadful past of the world, by
the memory of all the millions who ended
lives of miserable enslavement in degraded
graves by the teachings and sacrifices OF
the martyred Christ, by the sufferings of
the great revolution which made us a ma
ton, by all the hopes of Humanity all over
this round globe, we implore our fellow cti-
zens to unite with in one grand effort
to build up a reform party that will liberate
mankind.
Our hearts go out to the wretched and
oppressed of the whole world, and if placed
in power in this country we shall try to
SO act as to help all mankind.
AS fundamental step to the preservation
of our endangered liberties, We demand that
the reign of corruption shall cease in our
legislative halls by the establishment of
direct legislation. We must shorten the
plough-handles of government, by bringing
the legislator closer to his prncpas-so
close that no lobbyist can intrude between
them. Through the initiative and referen-
DUN all moral and political questions can
be submitted to a fair and impartial vote
of the people, and if adopted by majority
of the voters become the law Of the land.
While we demand that if either gold or
silver is to be used as money both shall be
used, we insist that the best currency this
country ever possessed was the full legal
tender greenback of the civil war. And we
look forward with hope to the day when
gold shall be reegated to the diseased
teeth of the people and the human family
possess, free Of tribute to bankers. a gov
ernmental full legal tender measure of val
ues, made of paper, that will expand side
by side with the growth of wealth and pop
ulation. Then, and only then, will the peo-
pie realize the full benefits of civilization,
and the world be made a garden of delights
for mankind
We call attention to the public school
| system and the postal service. exempli-
| fication of a beneficent state socialism,
! which our people would only reiiquish with
hoir AnI 1p,o1l and hat he ga "
| ing of messages written with pen and ink
| be amplied to embrace messages written
| by electricity; and that The train of cars
| which carries our letters be owned by the
| government to carry those who wrote the
| letters.
| No other reforms will avall much if cor
| porations permitted to say how much
they shall take from the producers and how
| much they will leave them. This is taxation
| without representation in its worst form.
| 1t is the disgrace of our public that for
| eign deSpCtiSms have defended the right or
| the people, in these particulars. while cor
| ruption has made self-govcrnment helpless
| failure in this land
Believing that republic cannot he main
| tained among a population of tenants we
| favor such revision of the laws and such
readjustment of taxation as shall exempt
| from taxation all homeste ads to an amount
| not exceeding 5000 in value, and $500 OF
| personal property to each head of faml-
| ly. To compensate for this reduction of
| taxation we favor an income, inheritance
| and other like taxes.
We opposed to individuals or corpora
| tions fastening themselves, like vampires,
! on the people, and sucking their substance
| and we demand that whatever can be done
| by the government for the enrichment of
| the many shall not be turned over to in
+! dviduals for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of the few.
| Hence, we insist that banks have no more
right to create our money than they would
| have to organize our armies or pass our
laws.
We reaflrnl the fundamental principles of
| the Omaha platform, and declare 1t TO be
| the immutable creed of our party coeva
| with it in birth and filed with the spirit
| which launched it on its grand career. II
| must not be whitfield away or traded off for
| offices. The man who proposes to do this
| is an enemy of mankind; ne would sell the
| kingdom of heaven for a mess of pottaGe.
We believe in the collective ownership of
| those means Of production and distribution
| which the people may elect, such as rail-
| ways, telegraphs, telephones, coal mines,
| etc.
with malice toward none. with charity
to all; with devotion to the right as God
| gives us to see the right" we commit oar
| cause to the hearts and consciences Of tha
American people
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