The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-07-13

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leave the Peoples party. Rev. B. Fa,
! Mills said. The. elevator boys he'd
done more to uplfft the conference thar
all the reformers together" (What bet
ter could we expect from political trad.
ers for Office who belle themselves By
putting success or policy before prin.
cipleO DR.. Morris said: II have at.
tended all your sessions, and l feel thai
you have patronized a national Gem.
etery where ideals were buried daily
and hourly. You came here with your
guide star, and you 60 away with you1
wagon hitched to a balloon. (And the
Democratic party is a balloon so filled
with poisonous gases that it is surely
going to burst and fall very soon.) You
have lost an opportunity, such an OPP
portunity that may never come to any
of you again. Oh, the pity of it all! 1t
is an object lesson because of the
things you have done you should not
have DONE"
The leaders, fearing further explo-
sions which would completely finish the
disintegration of the conference, cut it
short before the expected time of clos
ing. A number of the best known men
like E. D. Mead editor of the New Eng
| land magazine, had abruptly left al
| ready. 1t ended as we predicted it
would. Their papers announced that
not less than 500 eminent reformers
would be present. At no time was
there 200, and the eminent ones were
mostly noted by their absence Some
excellent men were there, like Professor
Heron, who uttered bright, true re-
marks. But their meeting will result in
no direct practical good to the people,
since the traders who ran it have bum
coed them into one of the two old par
ties. But, fortunately, as Chairman
Mills and Nelson (they failed to organ
ize) said: mo action taken there will
bind any of them" 1t was only a good
literary debate, as we predicted it would
be. They are unworthy the name of re-
formers; they expect the rotten old par
ties to carry out the work they preach,
and which we are trying to realize in
the precinct clubs. They will never ac-
complish what they pray for till they do
little missionary work themselves in
their own precincts, according to our
referendum plan. AS Influencing the
old, rotten Democratic machine. those
100 men will be little more consequence
than Uncle Toby's fly on the coach
Wheel"
PUBLIC IMPOSED UPON.
1t was little short of impudence and
untruthfulness for the men who were
running this conference to persistently
publish names of men who were to be
there whom we proved weeks ago would
not attend. Such men, some of whom
were announced to speak, but who fail
ed to appear are Henry Doyd, John Alt
geld, Eugene V. Debs, Samuel Gompers.
Father McGlynn, Bishop Spaulding.
Booker T. Washington, Thos w. Hig-
ginson, Richard T. Ely, Lymon Abbott,
Gov. Pingree, Col. Frank Burkitt and
many others.
Prof. Heron presented to the confer
ence an address to the people, which
was almost unanimously adopted, and is
as follows in full:
We, the members of the nation social
and political conference assembled in
the city of Buffalo, June % to July 3,
1899, address the people of the United
States concerning the two great evils
of militarism and plutocracy which now
menace the existence of the republic,
the economic and moral we'll being of
every citizen and the liberties in which
these states have their birth and being.
We send forth this address with the mr.
gent purpose of cooperating with the
people and with all parties and move
ments that represent them in their eff
forts toward the REDEMPTION of our
common citizenship and in the saving
and development of the liberties and
principles of self government bequeath-
ed to us by our fathers.
The evils of militarism is expressed in
our war of conquest in the Philippine
islands; in our continued government |
of Cuba by armed forces and the mill
tary grants of Cuban franchises and
special privileges; in the private use of
the United States army for the complete
and instant overthrow of civil govern
ment in Idaho and the establishment. in
its place of military despotism; in the
corporate and private use of military
force to destroy and terrorize organized
labor in the exercise of it's sacred rights
Of association; in the monstrous and
open public corruptions that have
grown out of our Spanish and Philip
pine wars as their natural fruits.
nation cannot deny the capacity
and violate the right of another nation
10 liberty and self-government without
losing faith in the capacity of it's own
people for self-government and in the
right of it's own people to liberty.
There never existed a nation that could
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