The Saint Paul globe., 1899-03-31
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ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLES PARTY
BY THE STATE CENTRAL
COMMITTEE
GETTING READY FOR 1900

GETTING READY FOR 1900
z. III. Austin Appointed Chairman of
a Committee On Organization and
Ways and Means-The Docu-
ment Issued Urges Allegiance to
the St. Louis Platforms.
The Peoples party state central COM
mittee has made a move looking to the
campaign Of 1900. 1t Is the intention Of
the party managers to begin actively the
work Of organizing the several counties
in which there are at present no organi-
nations and to strengthen up the organi-
zations in those counties where they
showed weakness last fall The counties
In the Sixth district are supposed to be in
good shape now, but in the Seventh and
some parts of Southern Minnesota work
will be done during the next few months.
The state central committee, at meet
Ing held in February, discussed the fu-
ture and decided to issue an address to
the Peoples party of Minnesota At the
same time a committee on organization
and ways and means was decided upon AS
desirable. and q. H. Austin was named
chairman of the committee, with power to
select his committee. Mr.. Austin has al
ready invited Paul Fontaine, of Minneap-
oils; D. H. Evans, of Tracy, and s. Oden,
of Marshall, to cooperate with him. More
names may be added to the committee if
found necessary.
The address to the public was drawn up
and approved at a meeting this week and
will appear in Mr.. Austin's paper, the
Microcosm, To-Day. 1t is in full, as fol-
| lows:
ADDRESS TO THE PARTY.
''The state central committee of the
Peoples party, of Minnesota, met Feb.
Is, 1899, at the Clarendon hotel in st.
Paul. and, among other things, decided
to issue an address to the party members
in the state In pursuance of that deci-
sion, by authority of the Peoples party
and in its name, we therefore send greet
Ing to the people of our common political
faith, and call upon them to pledge
themselves to the support of our organi-
was need for our party platform, our
party organization and our party efforts
in 1892, when the party was born into po-
Htlcal activity, there is much greater
need for all of these today; for it is evil
dent that the evils which disturbed the
people at that time, which then threat
ened the extinction of personal liberty,
which then distressed the free citizens
of the great republic. far from being les
or fa6 how null in1in nd
doubly intensified. Those evils which we
then saw, and whose baleful influences
are now apparent to all men, demand a
remedy today. The party Of Thomas JEFF
ferson, forgetting to denounce us as
prophets of evil and admitting all that
we claimed in the beginning Of this dec
ade, SO far as the evil alone Is concerned,
turns back to the eighteenth century to
find a remedy for conditions, Industrial
and political, which were inconceivable
in the time of it's great founder, and for
which the methods of ideal Democracy
must forever prove inadequate Since
then the marvellous concentration of
wealth and power, due to the fndipensi-
BILE invention and Inevitable combination
in the industrial world, the introduction
of steam and electricity as motive pow
ers, the employment Of labor saving ma
chinery and combinations have produced
a complication of social Ills, of which
Thomas Jefferson never dreamed. ragr
~ ALL THINGS TO ALL MEN.
"As for the party of Abraham Lincoln,
once the champion of human liberty, 1av-
ing dwelt long in the luxury of success
and having enjoyed long the delights Of
it, has abandoned the principles of its
Jealous founder, who held conscience
above party prosperity, and now pursues
success along the lines of least resist
IA re tn
all men, Always the plant tool of
plutocracy. and ever on the alert to find
the path to the public treasury and the
monopolized opportunities of nature, it's
keen and constituencies leaders denounce
today the very evils which they de-
nounced us for pointing in 1892, but r
nit them to grow and multiply and pro-
pose neither remedy and relief
ITO expose the evil was and is but
small part of the work which lies before
the Peoples party: It's greater and
nobler work was to find a remedy for
that evil, but 1t can no more subscribe
to platform which proposes an in.
adequate remedy than to one which pro-
poses no remedy at all.
Believing that the conventions of our
party at Omaha In 1892 and at st. Louis
in 1896 made no mistakes, so far as the
expression Of party principle and party
purpose were concerned, we renew our
allegiance to the cardinal principles and
political remedies set forth in their plat
forms and ask members Of the party
throughout the state to do the same
POPULISM IN GOVERNMENT.
I'VE believe that the government of
this republic Of right ought to be the
property of all the people and responsive
to their collective will. That 1t is not
so at present is too evident to require
argument. All parties concede 1t, but
the Peoples party alone proposes an