The Savannah morning news., 1900-06-12
IGNATIUs DoNNELLY'S LETTER.
His Acceptance of the Peoples Par
~ Nomination..


Hastings. Neh., June 1.-THE following
are extracts from the letter of Isnatius
Donuelly to the committee accepting the
Peoples party nomination for Vice Presl-
dent:
In our Civil War government paper
money, without bankers. saved the nation;
and its life can be maintained in time OF
peace by the greenbacks.
1T is a crime to compel eighty millions
of free people to depend for the first essen
tial of human society upon a few thousand
bankers, who make The people pay heavily
for doing fer them what the people are
nbundantly able 10 do for themselves. The
bankers note is redeemable in greenbalIs
Why not then destroy the banknotes and
issue the superior paper-the greenbacks
A great republic, based on che theory
or equal rights to all and special pTivi-
leges to none, and which, by its consttu-
ton prohibits monarchy and arstocracy
needs a political party that is. devoted TO
liberty and no hing else.
'Of what avail
is flag or sail
or land or life,
If freedom fail?
through the Democratic party?
Suppose that the old Wing party in
stead of decenGy dying in 1856 when it
had outlived its function, had fingered
superfiuous on the stage and the people
of the United States had tried to use it
as an fundamentally to destroy slavery
could they possibly have succeeded?
NO, they would have found one-half
of its membership favorable to slavery
and one-half opposed to it; and instead of
reform we should have had continuous
internecine warfare
Slavery was destroyed by a party,
every member of which was opposed to
slavery
"Fmtocracy will never be overthrown
by the Democratic rar y with its head in
Wall street and it's tail in the Mississippi
Valley.
we mu have a party dreadfully IN
earnest az d in which there is not sin
plutocrat If ten horses are hftche1
10 the front CT a cart, and ten horses,
equally strong, are fastened % the tail
end, will not tie cart STAND H.?
"Reer IL as w may, Plutocracy Is as
much Of a sectional question to-day as
slavery was in 1856 1t is the battle of
the money-lending region against the
mon " orr owing re sion; the section
whore the dcllsr is tigser than the man
aeainst the section whore the man is in
hntely bigger than the dollar 1t Is
Tareadnee1le stree against the Spirit of
1776. Its roots reach down to the is ue Of
mor archy versus republic; nay. they go
even de per. II IS the forward move
ment of God for the bes ing of bis
children. ainst the frog odyte I'm his
cavNn acking the leg-bones of is vic
TINS, 10 extract the marrow for his can
nlhalistic feast
The famines. The suffering. the strikes.
the poverty, 'he wretcht dness he sui
cl6es OF tie multi udes, are all cannibal-
ist'c; but the banqueters are better
dressed than their predecessors OF the
c7verns. They do net heat their victims
brains out wi h clubs, they crush them
with laws ond cont nations, or retrify
them with fa Sc statements and false ar
guments.
This is a new country. based on a new
idea-the sovereignty Of the common peo-
pie. Europe furnished us with or settlers
aud now it Is overwhelming us with its
IDEAS. Aristocracy to-day rules the greater
part of Europe and America.
our government is a republic, and yet
our rulers have stood silently by while
monarchy has tramped the life out Of
two Of our fellow republics IN South Al
RIGA.
Give the Peoples party power and we
will put stop to this state OF things
War is evil. but national degrade ton is a
greater evil
Better the eagle on the mountain top.
nigh famished in the fellowship of
storms, than the beastly reptiles in the
swamp, bloated with filth and sleeping
away its wretched existence
"A bra ham Lincoln spoke OF keeping the
jewel of liberty Ia the family Of freedom;
but we have no family of freed om Ev-
erywhere the tendency Is toward despot-
ism.
IF this nation Is to live. as free re-
pubic. 1t needs the Peopes party, with its
heroic breed Of statesmen, who aim at
something higher than sluabtle for
petty offices.
'"Tis not in MORALS to command success;
But wen do more-well deserve it,"