The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-06-12
IGNATIUs DoNNELLY ACCEPTS.
His Letter a Jeremiad ON the Finan-
ciaI Condition Of the Country.

HASTINGS, Mimi, June n-Ignatius
Donnelly has formally accepted the nomi-
nation of the ''middle-road Peoples party
for Vice President In his letter of accept
ance he indorses every word of the Gin
cinnati platform. Here are extracts from
the document:
Money is a necessity of civilization.
Without it the productions of the people
cannot be exchanged. Without 1t all trades
and commerce must end. If Ii is furnished
in insufficient quantities its purchasing
power increases and the prices of labor,
and all commodities produced by labor,
correspondingly fall. The rich, therefore,
become richer and the poor poorer.
ITO supply the people with money is the
supreme function of government; for the
only end of government Is the prosperity
and happiness of the governed.
When the issue of the money OF the
nation is left in the hands of private cor
porations, whose interest it is TO make ii
scarce. and, therefore, dear; not a dollar
OF it can come TO the people across their
counters until some one borrows 1t and
pays interest on il.
'"rhe country is then in a horrible condi-
tion. 1t is If We were charged for the
air we breathe. 1t Is as IL our army, con-
resist the invaders OF our country until
every citizen came forward and paid them
a private bonus for defending his home.
at is a crime to compel eighty millions
sential OF human society upon a few thou
sand bankers, who make the people pay
heavily for doing for them what the people
are abundantly able to do for themselves.
The bankers note is irredeemable in green
backs. Why not, then. destroy the bank
notes and issue the superior paper-the
greenbacks.
.'The world is to-day trying to solve the
problem, shall wealth or manhood rule hu-
manity?
Slavery was destroyed by party. every
member of which was opposed to slavery.
"Plutocracy will never be overthrown by
the Democratic party. with its head in
Wall street and its tail in the Mississippi
valley.
1--WE must have a party dreadfulIy in
earnest and in which there is not a single
plutocrat II ten horses are hitched to the
front of cart, and ten horses, equally
strong. fastened to the tail end, will
not the cart stand still?
''Regret II as we may, plutocracy is as
much of sectional question to-day as
slavery in 1856. 1t is the battle OF the mon
extending region against the money-bor-
rowing region; the section where the dol
lar Is bigger than the man against the Sec
ton where the man is infinitely bigger than
the dollar. 1t is Threadneedle street against
the spirit OF 17l6. Its roots reach down to
the issue of monarchy versus republic: nav
they go even deeper. IL is the forward
movement of God for the blessings of His
children, against the troglodyte In his cav
ern. cracking the leg-bones of his victim.
To extract the marrow for his cannibalistic
feast.
..The famines. the suffering the strikes,
the poverty. the wretchedness. the suicides
OF the multitude. are all cannibalistic but
the banqueters are better dressed than
their predecessors Of the caverns. They do
not beat their victims brains out with
csubs-they crush them with laws and COM
binations or petrify them with false state-
ments and false arguments.
This Is new country. based on new
ideas-the sovereignty of the common peo-
pie. Europe furnished US with our settlers