The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-10

ble. lest 1t should displease the bene- nclarles or class legislation, Every .one or its quaking voice seems to say 70 wan, the eSSrparations Srp Don't be afraid: fear of Snug the Joiner, in 'Midsum- mer Nights Dream" the apparent lion dissipates the fear of his audience by IS only for stage purposes. If that platform had been meant to please the people, how easy it would have been 10 write 1t! But 1t was meant to de- lude the people and to please the cor porations; hence its wonderful contor- tlons in verbiage, its agonzed efforts 1 to use much language and say noth- however, the candidate fits the plat form as though a political tailor had measured him for 1t. Parker can propably use more words and say less that you are certain of than any man | Tn America.
 | The Peoples party is Jeffersonian to the core. It has never emasculated it's to win it's way into minds and hearts | by earnest advocacy of fixed principles. It's chief reliance has been on political l education. It assails the evils of class | legislation, and for every abuse offers a remedy. t does not blindly seek to tear down. It seems to reform, to re- pair to renovate, to restore. We would, if we could go back to the sys- l tenn of our forefathers. The class leg islation which is the bane of our gov- l ernment at this time, obtained the up- per hand in our government twice be- fore, and was twice driven out. Jeff ferson did 1t once; then Jackson. De- mocracy in Jackson's day paid of the national debt. overthrow the national of favored classes, and put the reins | of power back into the hands of the people. The protective principle was struck down, and the Walker tariff in- Charles Dickens, who visited this coun- try previous to the civil war, wrote back to his home that flaming sword in the air would not excite more amazement than a beggar in the streets of Boston; and he expressed his aston- ishment at the general prosperity of Democracy was ruling the land and in- | spring its legislation. This prosper ous condition continued. in the main. until our civil war. That deplorable of life than in the legislation to which | 1t gave provocation and opportunity ational banks gained foothold once | more; mountain of bonds arose; mon l strous tariffs. framed with the view of enriching favored industries were Im- posed; corporations seized the public lands; the money power began that se- ries of forays upon the government | and upon the producing classes which has transferred almost the whole of the wealth of the country to those who
 
 | ment in time of war nor honestly served 1t in time of peace. The grand armies of industry win the yearly vic tory over nature by toll, producing the wealth which the captains of industry appropriate to themselves by subtle chlcanery. The vastly greater part Of the. wealth of this country Is enjoyed by men who never produced a dollar in their lives.
 The Peoples party makes no war up on private ownership, upon honest ply combats the legislation which builds up one man at the expense of another. which gives special privileges to one class at the expense of another. which discriminates against a citizen of others. In short. the Peo- ple's party declares It's hostility to privilege. and demands legislation whose motto shall be equal and exact justice to all. without favors to any"
 Such rascality as that of the copper trust. or the steel combine should eith- CT be made impossible. or the admin istration of law so invigorated that the criminals who steal millions shall wear the ball and chain side by side with the thief who stole pig.
 We believe in the money of the con stitution. We do not bend in super stitious reverence to silver and gold. We believe that any currency which the Government declares to be legal tender, will be sound money as long as the Government is sound" We have less fear that the Government will ever issue too many paper dollars than We have that 1t will issue too many bonds. A Government must gov ern; and the creation of money is part of the sovereign power. The Gov ernment must decide how many sol diers shall come to the nag must de, eide how many battleships shall hold the ocean lists against the world in mail. It Is no more likely to make a mistake by issuing too much money than 1t is to make worse mistake py calling too many breadwinners into the military service.
 Rag baby! cries the editor: Rag baby!" cries the fossil in the academy Yet that same editor. and that same academic fossil is quick to approve when the Government makes a bond out of rags, and allows the banker to issue rag notes on the rag bonds. what lchiIdren we are. after all! some men 20 around in mental swaddling clothes l all the days of their blessed lives l The Peoples Party favors the public ownership of public utllues. n near .lIy every civilized country the Govern | ment owns the railways. the telegraphs and the telephones. The last two | should be q part of our postonce sys- | tern to which should be added the par Icei poet to free our people from the l Iextorttonate charges Of the express l companies. The People Party has al- ways earnestly advocated the gradu- atad income tax This would not only tbrour inc support of the Government mon tbe rich. where 1t should be, but would, in a great measure. prevent the 1 accumulation of huge, unnecessary and | danperous fortunes. We taVor the ot.bt hour law. and the abolition of ehfiS Tabor in factories, where the un- healthy moral and physical conditions are almost certain to destroy the child. as 2Iy t1aIteve 1T 10 be part of mans natural liberty and equality to labor For bimself and not for a master, and that the laws should be so framed that iand for either the living or the dead. Recently we have heard the insidious voice of those who tell us that man is not born free. but must earn his | grAedom. This pernicious and false Statement comes from one of those mill lionajre colleges where opinions are censored just as books are censored for the Carnegie librarieA