The age-herald., 1899-06-01
Judge TaTdn Nominated the Leader Who Fought Against Such
 Great Odds in '96 to Again Lead the HSb

than others, some can laDOr with great
 CT effect than others; some are physical
 ly stronger than others; and some are
 more greatly endowed mentally than
 are others.
 By the provisions of all the laws of
 nature, by the dictates of all sentiments
 of right and of justice the fruits of la
 Dor ought to be distributed in propor-
 tion to the distribution of the ability to
 labor. Every man should receive that
 which he can earn by his labor. That
 is democracy. That is the natural and
 normal condition. and it ought to pre-
 vail. It should not be distributed by
 legislation, and should not be affected
 by adjudication. The purpose of govr
 ernment ought not to be to effect or to
 control, or to regulate the distribution
 of the fruits of latN' That distribution
 should be governed only by natural
 laws. To control it by law Is to attain
 the same ends sought and accomplish
 ed at those times in history when gov
 ernments ere administered only by arm
 ed forces, and when by armed force the
 fruits of those who labored ere taken
 from them and given to those who did
 labor. Millions of men have died, and
 hundreds of revolutions have arisen in
 order to destroy the administration Of
 government in this way. until today
 those who labor have not to fear the
 use of armed force, but instead, and in
 lieu thereof the misuse of government
 and abuse of legislation, and the power
 
 of adtudication. They have not to lear
 the armed warriors at their doors, but
 they have to fear the dominated con
 gress and the appointed and dominated
 judge , a'The process of the diversion of the fruits of labor from those who labor to those who do not labor. by means of legislation ana adjudicaton, has been going on with un- ceasing activity in this country since the close of the civil war. It has gone to such xxy1ad been aroused to a sense of their condition and to 0 realization of the imminent danger that their condition may become much worse. They are entering protest agalnst these conditions; they are demanding that the government be confined to It's nat ural functions and constitutional powers; they are protesting against the distribution the fruits of labor by congress ana courts. They are protesting aga1nst the distribution of money, which stands as the represent ative of the fruits of labor. by other than natural laws. They are protest ing against the control and the use of gov ernment by those only who are possessed of money and who have come to repre- sent the organized wealth of the nation The only capital in life of ninety-elght per cent of the people of this land is labor The capital of the other two per cent Is money The ninety-eight per cent protest against legislation and adjudication oy which the capital of the two per cent. Is in creased in value at the cost and expense of the capital of the ninety-eight per cent.
 Shall It Be Capital or Labor
 
 '~rhe question is to be determined in . 1900 for the time is. whether the gov ernment shall be administered by the representatives of the organized capi- stal, and for the benefit of organized capital, or whet ether it shall be adminis- tered by the people in such way as to permit the operation of natural laws In : the distribution of the fruits of labor, | sometimes called money, sometimes known as wealth.
 
 with this knowledge of the question at issue this convention may express an opinion as to the platform that ought to be adopted by the democratic convention of 1900; for it happens that the organlza- ton of the democratic party of this coun- try Is now in the hands of those who be- lieve that the government should be ad- minfstered by the people, and not for tho benefit of the organized wealth Of the country It has not always been true that the organization of the democratic party has been so controlled, and for eight years 1t was under the same domination of the same forces now controlling the republi- can party. There has not been single national administration since the close or the civil war that has not been dominated by the wealth of the country, and that has not been used to divert the fruits of la Dor from those who labor to those who do not labor. This convention is representa- tive of the brave and sincere people of four great states. It is representative of peo- pie Independent of the domination of, and not infected by, corrupt municipal politics, and who, in their condition, their abiltes, their desires and their ambitions, are typ!- cal Americans, seeking not to fashion either their government, their morals or their society after the government or mor- als or society of a vicious, debauched and arrogant class of any other people Tn the world It is not representative of nigh social class; nor of concentrated wealth; nor of those who seek to control municipal, state and national government for t--e benefit of organized wealth. It is repre- sentative of the people, and not for the royalists. It Is a convention with the cour- age to express its convictions and beliefs, and not seeking to hide behind eenerali- ties and platitudes. We expect to express here just what we mean, in terms that no man cam fail to understand.
 stand for Free Coinage
 'cWe stand without qualification, re-
 serve or conditions for the free and un-
 limited coinage of silver and gold at the
 ratio of 16 to 1, by the United States,
 without awaiting the action of any other country on earth. We express our
  the democratic national platform of
 1900. We are of the opinion that no
 steps should be taken to obscure this
 doctrine, or to relegate 1t. We believe that the democratic national convention
 of 1900 should adopt the Chicago plat form of 1896 without the omission of
 word, a letter or a punctuation mark; and that it should add hereto a specific
 and an appropriate declaration against the existence and the organization of
 trusts and combinations, and a spe- cific promise of legislative action look ing to their extermination; and that it should add thereto declaration against any policy of imperialism, appropriate to an absolute government, but repug- nant to every line of the Pill of Rights and the Constitution of the United States.
 We venture to express <he opinion that the democratic platform in 1900 ought to be made by democrats, and that those who are not democratic ought not to undertake to dictate what that platfom shall be. We