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In all these movements there is in finite encouragement. The labor un ions, the farmers’ organizations and • the kindred reform bodies that under their own banners are fighting the battles of the people are but various branches of the greater army that eventually is to wage the supremo struggle for human rights. For each and all of them we have but a word of fraternal cheer. Our only oppo sition is to the stock exchange gamb lers, who are subverting democracy and robbing mankind. There are in reality two forces’in our country— those who stand for the kings of dis honest finance, and those who stand for the equal rights of all. Sooner or later every man must ally himself under one standard or the other, and it is to that end that the People’s Party sounds the call to action. Gambling on margins should be pro hibited by law. Betting on the prices of stocks and on the necessities of life not only possesses all the evils of other sorts of gaming, but adds that of being a disturber of com merce and industry. This criminal spirit of speculation has honeycombed our banks and demoralized our rail- Toada, and finally, in the midst of universal prosperity, is plunging oar country into a panic that is brin 7 ing distress and suffering to all. With 11ns object lesson bes >re their ey- 1. the American people will fail in their duty if they do not correct the finan cial system, and end the iniquity of stock gambling once and forever. And with the accomplishment of these results, the People's Party will be content. It cares not who does the work so long as the work is done. But until all its principles are enacted into law it proposes to continue the fight. All soldiers of truth for her sake it invites to join its ranks. Those who can turn their backs on the fleshpots and fight for right be cause it is right are ever welcome. We are content to stand as we have stood since the birth of our party, holding aloft the triune banner of reform—money, land and transporta tion—which includes transmission of intelligence. The people’s money; the people's land; the people’s transportation; the people’s government. It is time for a marshalling of the forces. It is time to proclaim that the reign of Mammon is ended, and that we are ready to inaugurate R reign of man. The hour at last has struck for the formation of a great independent political movement, free from the bossism and corruption of both old parties and based on the fundamental and eternal truth of the People’s Party. Not only are the principles winning the nation, but the time has arrived for the resur rection of the party, that will put these principles into practice. To this end let us reassemble our forces and re-form our lines. All who are ready for independent political action, who believe in a money issued and controlled by the government instead of by the banks and the stock gamblers, who believe in public utilities being owned by the public, who believe in the rights of these toilers and the people’s rule through direct legislation, are cordial ly invited to join our ranks and to assist in electing delegates to our national oonrsntioa. WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. A NEW TRIUMVIRATE FOR THE PEOPLE. An article by “Dixit” in the Weekly Jeffersonian October 24, sug gesting that the three gieat reform leaders, Wm. J. Bryan, Wm. R. Hearst and Thomas E. Watson, unite their forces in one great party, should meet with the approval of everyone who has the real interests of the peo ple at heart. A new party, embodying the prin ciples of Thomas Jefferson, and firm ly rooted in the constitution, has al ready been formed under the leader ship of Wm. Randolph Hearst —a party that must be reckoned with in the coming campaign of 1908. It behooves the Populists in their coming conference to consider well whether they will avail themselves of this opportunity to unite with the League in this new people ’9 party- - whose fundamental truths are, “Al! men are created equal . and arc endowed by their Creator with cer tain inalienable rights . . . life, lib erty and the pursuit of happiness,” as in our first 11 Declaration of In dependence,” and therefore appro priately named, The Independence League I In a measure, Thomas E Watson is sponsor for this party. At the great municipal ownership meeting of April, 1905, held in New York City, in memorable old Cooper Union, his speech—notable among ethers —made a profound impression; and helped to bring about the Munic ipal Reform Alliance, which has since crystallized into the Independence League. As an auditor on that oc casion, I well remember the unstint ed praise given to Mr. Hearst. To quote Mr. Watson’s own words: “There is another who deserves spe cial mention here tonight An un assuming, modest man —a mere talk-factory, not a man whose pun pose finds its only life in words, to die away with the echo of those words; but a man who for a dozen years has intrepidly championed the cause of the people; and who at Chi cago was in the thick of the fight. It would be rank injustice not to sav that the whole country owes recogni tion and applause to William Ran dolph Hearst. ’ ’ During the course of this speech Mr. Watson also said: “To redeem New York, to liberate public proper ty from the clutches of private cor porations, I am ready to step into the ranks, under the leaderanip of any honest man who is devo+otl to prin ciple.” The New York mayoraltv campaign in 1905 is well known; and the re sults of that stolen election will go down in history with those two oth er infamous political thefts, viz.: In 1876, when the electoral college counted cut Tilden for the presiden cy; and again, twenty years later, when the same tactics were employed in counting out William Jennfngs Bryan! In 1906 the Independence League, uniting with the best ele ments of the democratic party in New York, were victorious, though their leadership was deprived of the fruits thereof. The results of this fall’s election prove the growing strength of the League. With decided victo ries in Boston and San Francisco, and the large vote polled for oourt of appeals by the Letfua alone, in New York City, and acknowledged by the New York press —the outlook is very encouraging for future victo ries. Arthur Brisbane, one of the most brilliant writers of the country, said in an interview for the New York World in 1906: “Hearst is going to succeed because sincerity and in telligence combined do not fail in the long run. And those who support him now in the beginning of his po litical career will be pioneers in a movement for genuine conservative popular government, free from the dangerous experiments of irresponsi ble theorists and free from the vicious scheming of selfish monopolists. Hearst stands for Americanism in government. And Americanism is not yet a failure, despite the efforts of anarchy at the top and at the bot tom of society to make it fail.” “A word to the wise” should be sufficient to cause the Populists and all earnest members of true Jeffer sonian Democracy, throughout the land, to pause and reflect before tak ing decided and final action for the next campaign in 1908. J. c. 0. ADVICE, WHICH YOU MAY CONSIDER. Everybody that is not getting Wat son’s Jeffersonian Magazine, of At lanta, Ga., is missing the very cream of current journalism. “Best in the South,” is too small and provincial a category; whatever Tom Watson writes goes right up into the best anywhere class. It is true he has views. Almost anybody is subject to this limitation at times. But he can’t help it—and he does express them so well. The liveliness of a Watson paragraph is certainly not excelled, if, indeed, it is equalled by anybody else’s we happen to know of —not even by Collier’s. And these few remarks, by the way, are not intended as an ad. for Watson’s, but merely as a good tv n to our readers. If they will read t few numbers of the Watson’s Jeffer sonian, of France, or his Life of Thomas Jefferson, or almost anything else he has written, and then not heartily’ agree with us and be much obliged for the tip, we will cheerful ly refund this entire paragraph. If a man has time to read only so much he ought to take his home paper, Watson’s, Collier’s, McClures and the Louisiana School Review, and let the rest go.—Louisiana School Review. HE KNEW HIS FATHER. “Suppose,” said a father to hu little boy, “you have half an apple and I give you another half. How much have you?” ‘‘A whole apple,” said the boy. “Well,” continued the father, “suppose you had a half dollar and I gave you another half dollar. What would you have then?” “A lit,” promptly answered the boy. _ POINTED PARAGRAPHS. The evil we remember is surpassed by the good we forget. 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