Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-31

tor In Iowa todAyf The Chicago, Bur-
lington = Quincy railroad. The people
have no more to do with It than they
decide what canals shall be built on the
planet Mars. You know that horde Of
politicians with their burglar politics
are holding up your conventions. and
forcing q senator upon you. The mo-
nopolists will own your legislatures.
They will commit your nation to foreign
wars to avert social agitation. To per-
init individuals to own this nation,
why. men, there Is over you today In
this nation an iron despotism, an indus
trial tyranny, compared with which the
Boston tea party was but the play OF
children with their tin soldiers.
What do you pay for when you buy
a gallon Of oil? You pay the oil inspec-
tors salary, which the state pays. The
oil monopoly pays the same man ten
times as much for not inspecting it.
You men paid for founding univer-
sity in Chicago. There has grown up in
this country a commercial despurlsm, SO
that you pay for things five times as
much as they are worth.
There is no remedy in antitrust leg
islation and all that sort of monkey
business. There Is no remedy for the
trust, save through the people: through
all great public utilities being adminis-
tered by and for the common people.
Public ownership of all public utilities,
following Immediately upon recon-
structed land system; that is the way
out of the difficulty. The machinery of
production, as well as the sources of
production, must be administered by
and for the people.
1 A.
problems save through the entire abo-
| lition Of the present landlord system.
and the complete reconstruction of So
whether we are to have an industrial
revolution 1t will come whether you
want 1t or not
PLATFORM.
The convention adopted the following
platform and nominated the following
1 ticket:
"First-The peoples party OF the state
| OF Iowa, in convention assembled at Dies
Moines this Goth day of August, 1899,
hereby reaffirm the national platform of
the party as adopted at Omaha, A. d.
1892, and reaff1rmed at st. Louis in 1896.
Second, for the purpose of meeting
the obligations of our contracts the free
and unlimited coinage of gold and silver
at the ratio of 16 to meets our approv-
al, but for internal commerce the truly
scientific money of the United States is
a money not dependent upon intrinsic
value or coin redemption, but a money
issued solely by the government. With
out the intervention of corporations,
thus Matchmaking the money trust
Such a money should be full legal ten
der for all debts, public and private.
without any exception or limitation in
payment OF all dues. 1t should be is
sued in volume commensurate with the
business demands of the country and
increase Of population.
| "Third-We demand direct legislation
and proportional representation by
govern themselves. become their own
atty of their own law-making act, and
forever keep for the common life the
self governing power which can never
be rightly or safely delegated to repre-
| sentation. Thus only, and for the first
time since our fathers established the
New England town meeting, will gov
eminent by, for and Of the people be-
come a reality.
"Fourth-The rapid concentration of
private industries into consolidated or
foundations, commonly called trusts,
(which is now awakening and alarming
| the American people is the result of
economic law and the development of
| the age and can not be remedied by re-
l striction or penal antitrust legislation,
| or outlawed in the courts, but such evils
can only be remedied by the ownership
of natural and economic monopolies by
the whole people in their collective ca
pacity as nation, state and municipality,
in order that there may be equality of ali
men in the gifts of God to the common
life, equality OF economic opportunity
and political power. equality in excess
to all the national and social resources
needful for he'living of free, righteous
happy and complete lives.
"Fifth-We charge the republican
and democratic parties that while rec
ognizing the disease they have utterly
failed to discover or prescribe the true
remedy. The declaration of congress
that the people of Cuba are and of
right ought to be free and independ-
ent." should apply with equal force and
effect to the Filipino and his native
land, and that the same rights and lib
critics SO guaranteed to one by the Unit
ed States should also Immediately be
guaranteed the other and rendered to
BOTH"
TICKET.
Governor-Charles A. Lloyd, Of Mus
| catine county.
Lieutenant Governors. NJ. Harvey,
of Polk county.
Judge OF Supreme Court-L. II. Well
| err OF Chickasaw county.
superintendent OF Public Instruction
l-C. Worth, of Benton county.
Railroad Commissioner-Rober L..
Dunning, of Wapello county.
No Loss of Time.
Mr.. w. s. Whedon, cashier of the
First National Bank of Winterset, Ia,
in recent letter gives some experience
with carpenter in his employ that will
be Of value to other mechanics. He
says: II had carpenter working for
me who was obliged to stop work for
several days on account of being
troubled with diarrhoea. mentioned to
him that had been similarly troubled
and that Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and DiGrrhoea Remedy had cured me.
He bought a bottle Of it from the drug
Lit, l.. n.