Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1900-05-23
PoPULIsr n ATIoHAL PLATFORM.

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cIpies In all directions, does hereby reafIirm
| It's adherence to the fundamental principles
proclaimed in its two prior platforms. and
calls upon all who desire to avert the sub
| version OF free in situations by corporate and
imperialistic power. to unite with it in bring
ing the government back TO the ideals of
| washington, Jefferson. Jackson and Lincoln.
lt extends 10 its allies in the struggle for the
financial and enconomic freedom assurance
OF It's Loyalty to the principles which ami
| mate the allied forces and the promise of
1 honest aud hearty operation in every effort
/ Tor their success. TO the people of The Unit
ed States we offer this platform as the express
sioa OF our unaiterable convictions.
| Resolved, That we denounce the act of
March II. 1900. as she elimination of long
| series of conspiractes to deprive the people
OF their constitutional rights over the money
OF The nation and relegate to a gigantic mon
ey trust the control of the finances, land hence
Of the people. We denouncs this act. first.
| Tor making ali money obligations, domestic
ana foreign, payable in gold coin or its
equivalent, thus enormously increasing the
burdens of the debtors and enrlchng the
| CREDITORS; second, To- refunding coin bonds
not to mature for years, into longtime gold
| bonds. so as TO make their payment improb-
able and our debt perpetual; third for ak
ing from the treasury over S50. 1O00 In a
une OF war and presenting it at a pre- MUM
| 10 pondholders to accomplish the refunding
or bonds not due; fourth, for doubling the
capital or bankers by returning to them the
| lace value of their bonds in current money
notes, so that they may draw one in terest
| from the government and another from the
people; fifth, for allowing banks to expand
ana contract their circulation at pleasure.
thus controlling pre- IS or all products; sixth,
Tor authorizing the secretary of the treasury
to issue new gold bonds to an unlimited
amount whenever he deems'it necessary to re-
plenish the gold hoard, thus enabling usurers
TO secure more bonds and more bank curren-
cy by drawing gold from the treasury, III ere
by creating an'endless chain, or perpetualIy
adding to a perpetual debt; seventh, for
striking down the greenback in order to force
the people to borrow S3i6, 0O0,O0O from the
banks, at an annual cost of over $50 coo 600
While barring out the money of the constitu-
ton. this law opens the printin mints of the
treasury to the free coinage of bank paper
money, 10 enrich the few and i'm poverish the
many We pledge anew the Peoples party,
never to cease the agitation until this eighth
financial conspiracy is blotted from the stat
ute books. and Lincoln greenback restored,
the bonds all paid and all corporation money
forever retired.
we reaffirm the demand for the reopen
ing OF the minis of the United States to the
Tree and unlimited coinage of silver and gold
at the present legal ratio of Is to 1, the i'm
mediate increase in the volume of silver coins
and certificates thus created to be substitute
ed, dollar for dollar, for the bank notes
nv fha ix-ata
special privilege granted by law of March II,
1900. and prior national banking laws, the re-
naming portion of the bank notes to be re-
placed with full legal tender government pa
per money and its volume so controlled as to
maintain at all times stable money market
and a stable price level
We demand graduated income and in
herltance tax. to the end that aggregated
wealth shall bear its just proportion of taxa
ton.
We demand that postal saving banks he
established by the government for the safe de-
post OF the savings of the people and to Ia
citate exchange
With Thomas Jefferson we declare the
land, including all natural sources of wealth.
the lnalienable heritage of the people The
government shouldso act as to secure homes
Tor the people and prevent land MONOPOLY
The original homestead policy should be en-
forced and future settlers on the public do.
main should be entitled to a free homestead.
While all who have paid an acreage price to
the government under existing laws Should
have their homestead rights restored.
Transportation being n means of change
and public necessity, the government
should own and operate the railroads in the
interest of the people and on non-partisan
basis, to the end that all may be accorded the
same treatment III transportation and that
the extortion, tyranny, and political power
now exercised by the great railroad corpora
tons, which result in the impairment, if not
the obstruction OF the political rights and per-
sonal liberties OF the citizen, may be destroy
ed Such ownershi p is to be accomplished in
manner consistent with sound public policy.
Trusts, the overshadowiny evil of the age.
are the result and elimination of the private
ownership and control of the three great in
struments OF commeree-money, transporta-
ton. and the means of transmission of infor-
nation; which instruments of commerce are
public functions and which our rorefathers
declared in the constitution should be con-
trolled by the people through their congress.
for the public welfare. The one remedy for
the trusts is that the ownership and control
further demand that all tariffs on goods con-
trolied by trust should be abolished
To cope with the trust evil, the people
must act directly, without the Intervention of
representatives who may be controlled or in
huenced. We therefore, demand direct legis-
lation, giving the people the law-making and
veto power under the initiative and referen-
dunn. A majority of the people can never be
corruptly influenced.
Appauding the vaor of our army and
navy in the Spanish war, we denounce the
conduct of the administra ton in changing n |
war tor humanity into a war for conquest |
The action of the administration in the Philip |
pines is in conflict with all the presidents of |
our national life, at war with the declaration !
of independence. the constitution and the /
plain preceLts of humanity. Muir Ter and ar |
son have been our response to the appeals of |
the people, who asked only to establish fee !
government in their own land. We demand a |
stoppage of this war of determination, by the |
assurance to the Philippines of independence |
and protection under stable government OF |
their own creation.
The declaration of independence, the con- |
stitution and the American flag are one and |
inseparahe. The Island of Porto Rico is a |
part of the territory of the United States and |
by ievyiBg special and extraordinary customs |
dues on the commerce of that island, the ad- |