The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1900-08-03

al the people from the burdens ana OPP
pressions of monopoly. The inexhaustible
has placed within our borders for the ben
eft of our people has been appropriated
by the STANDARD Oil company until our
citizens cannot light a lamp or oil a
machine without the payment of tribute.
This monopoly controls the trade In Pc
troleum and in petroleum products in this
country, arbitrarily fixing the price which
II pays for crude oil and also the price
which it charges for the finished pro-
duct It's wealth is so staggering and its
power so invincible that we can have no
hope of relief from its greedy exactions
except such relief comes from the state,
and we therefore, demand such legisla-
ton as will most surely relieve US from
the oppression of this monopoly.
We believe that the cattle industry of
the state should be encouraged and pro-
tected, and to that end we advocate the
continuance of the sanitary board. under
the direction Of the actual cattlemen of
the state. The defeat of useful and
needed legislation and the passage of
clumsy and abortive laws which will not
stand in courts have been the work of
professional lobbyists. These malefactors
should be summarily dealt with. their
business should be defined and declared a
public offense and as such punished by
law.
| Each day adds fresh proof of the wis
| dom of the democratic position upon the
| question of prohibition and we renew our
| oft-repeated demand that the question
| be resubmitted to the people.
| Believing that the public health and the
public convenience and interest would be
best conserved by the public control of
| municipal utilities, we favor the public
| ownership of all such utilities as the best
| means of such control.
AS our fathers sympathized with Marco
Bozzaris and the Greek patriots, and with
/ NIL nd historic HnnQ9rianS
| with Garibaldi and his devoted Italians.
| with Bolivar and all other apostles of
| liberty, so we, their descendants. keeping
| alive upon our affairs the fires of liberty,
extend to all people who struggle for
| liberty our sympathy. The brave Beers
| Of South Africa are making a fight for
| home and country uneXampled in the an
nails of time. They deserve to be free,
| and that they may be free is our earnest
hope.
! with that unconquered hero. the lion of
| the west, William j. Bryan, and his il
lustrious running mate. Adlai Stevenson,
we go to the people confident of such a
popular triumph as has never before oc-
| CURED in our history.
Proceedings OF the Popu,ist Convention.
The populist convention got down
to business promptly and without
ceremony. The temporary organiza-
ton was made permanent. Jerry
Simpson presented the chairman with
| a gavel made of wood taken from a
log house at the old town of Salem,
H., where Abraham Lincoln used to
sell groceries. He said the gavel rep
resented the principles of Abraham
Lincoln and the two steel rims the
great democratic and peoples party
MT oil fh a
Lincoln republican party, cementing
the two great parties. The sixteen
wedges in the end of the gavel rep
resented the great financial plank OF
the three parties and the hickory
handle the sturdy Andrew Jackson
sentiment of the American people.
The report of the conference com
/ mittee, was now: called for and f. E.
Post, of Wyandotte county, read it.
The report was received with great
applause. especially the section which
gave to the populists the Office of as
sociate justice.
The Peoples Party Platform
We, the representatives of the people S
party of the state of Kansas. in state con-
Hvention assembled in Fort Scott. on the
18th day of July. 1900. do hereby reaffirm
the declaration of principles promulgated
by our national convention held at Sioux
Falls, s. D., May 9, 1900, and lndorse the
nominees of that convention
| We commend to the favorable consider
alton of the people of Kansas compar-
ison between the last populist state adj
ministration and preceding and succeed
ing republican state administrations, be-
lieving that such comparison Will every
where inure to the credit of populists.
The spirit of militarism, Imperialism and
the desire for foreign conquest which now
pervades the dominant political Organiza-
ton is the direct outgrOwth of the Spir-
it of greed, which is the chief character
istic of modern cOmmercialism as en-
bodied in trusts and private monopolies.
The modern Industrial commercial trans
portation trust is mOnarchfcal in its tend
encies. and absolutism in commercial life
leads to political absolutism and imperial
ism. There is no affinity between political
democracy and commercial aristOcracy
The spirit that compels men to accept the
| price which a private monopoly may place
upon their labor or it's products. or upon
i the necessities of their life will utter nc
| protest at the deSpoilment of our political
liberties at home, nor at the imposition OF
unjust and undesired governments upon
the people of other lands. We are un-
| alterly opposed to absOlutism, whether
| practiced upon the people of this nation
by imperial commercial trusts and private
monopolistic corporations, or whether
practiced upon political subjects either OF
Queen Victoria in South Africa or by
William Mckinley in Porto Rico or the
Philippines. The spirit of Imperialism Is
everywhere the same. whether exhibited
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