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PRESS COMMENT. The Dakota Ruralist (Huron, S. D.,) says: Tais is a question for the cool, so ber judgment of the people. Is an over-worked, tax ridden people being taxed to keep up a standing army which at every opportunity will be called at the behest of the millionaire to keep the workingmen in subjec tion? Down under the rottenness of political supremacy, there is some thing wrong somewhere. Shylock is the power behind the throne~-thc forked - tongued fiend in sheep’s clothing. r l he unseen fires of a na tion’s hell are burning in the vaults of AV all street, and the merry apos tles of the plutocratic Mogul sit and watch it burn and burn the vitals of the republic. 1 orchlightof Liberty,Montgomery, Mo., says: An acre of corn in 1870 brought $L>.-17, in 1880 $1’0.91, and in 1890 $8.82. An acre of wheat in 1870 brought sl4 50, in 1890 $9.25. An acre of oats in 1870 brought $12.18, in 1890 $7.33. Since 1870 about 40 per cent, of the value has been squeezed out of the products and added to the value of the dollar through the demonetization of silver ami subsequent contraction of the currency. The Western Herald (Girard, Kansas,) says: Ko one questions the statement so often made by the plutocratic papers that “this is the richest nation on the earth.” But these same papers fail to tell their readers that 95 per cent, of this great wealth is concentrated in the hands of one half of one per cent, of the entire population. The Southern Alliance, of Talla dega, Ala., accepts the logical con clusion that the plain people of Ala barna, lately victims of fraud by a combination of the “organized” Democracy and Republicanism of the State, must come to the People’s Party. It predicts that the People will sweep the State November. It says: As we intimated last week, the or ganized Democratic press of the State are coming forward, strongly pleading with the outraged people of Alabama who supported Capt. Kolb in the late contest to come back in the fold. Every old why machine politician is rushing into print, clam oring for “Harmony” and a com promise of the differences that ex ist. But, we would ask, what do they promise? About all that we can make out of their proposition is that if the followers of Capt. Kolb will come up in November and vote for Cleveland they will kindly allow them to participate in future or ganized Democratic primaries so long as they, the people, do not an tagonize the interests of the bosses. But the people will be slow to forget the many wrongs and injustices that have been heaped upon them during the past few months. And the bosses and politicians who have sown the wind will now have to reap the whirl-wind, for a veritable cyclone will strike the Demociatic party of Alabama in November. No. there is no compromise that the peo ple and the bosses can enter into. The people will hardly come for ward in the face of recent events and lick the hand that smote them. The Kansas Commoner (Wichita) talks like a philosopher: Do you know that when you speak of “the purchasing power of the dol lar” you must first purchase the dol lar, and that if they are scarce they will come high in your labor or pro ducts of the same? Would it not be better to have cheaper dollars, better paid labor and more business at a profit? The colonization of voters into Kansas is said to be actively gving on. The Torch of Liberty, Mound City, Kan., says: The manner in which the Repub licans hope to carry Kansas is by fraud. They have no other hope or name for it. It is their purpose to “plant” at least five fraudulent voters, white or colored, in each voting precinct in the State. 1 hei e being about 3,500 precincts, th.s uid give 3 them an increase of 17,000 voters, all of which is in keeping with the past and present history and practice of that party. The Union Labor Gazette, of Mitchell, S. Dakota, sums up the lesson of Homestead as follows . Then the real issue is whether la bor is to have a right to organize and whether employers treat with labor organizations, brick and Ca.ueg.o say they will not recognize organized labor but must and will treat Hirn their workmen as individuals oi not at all. The conflict is on between capital and labor. The Homestead tragedy is but one move of capital in that conflict. Capital has decreed that labor must not organize, and proposes to starve it to a compliance with that decree. Will labor tamely submit? The Walnut Valley Sentinel, of Ness City, Kau., puts it thus : If wealth is to be placed above worth ; if property is to be placed over humanity; if the power to rob community is what is to determine a man’s standing in this American re public, then let us change our form of government and elect the wealth iest man in the nation as president, the next as vice-president, and so on down through the senate, house and all the offices. An aristocracy of wealth is far more hateful than one of blood, and a despotism of dollars is far more degrading to the masses than is one of the sword. The lat ter is maintained by personal prow ess, which is, in a certain sense, commendable ; the former is main tained through the very meanest propensities of the human heart, those of greed and spoliation. The Workman, of Minden, Neb., says : The election of Harrison and Reid means a continuation of the present financial and industrial systems. This cannot be denied. Thea we are to have strikes, lockouts, riots, mobs and all other sorts of local disturb ances. Now, in ail candor is it pos sible that labor is always wrong, and capital always right? Can’t you at least concede that labor is right part of the time, and can’t you further concede that the administration has at least something to do with it? In the last ten years there has been a great many local conflicts between tabor and capital and invariably the press and leaders of the dominant party sympathize with capital. Cap ital has ruled for thirty years and dis turbances multiply. A disastrous and gory conflict is possible under the present state of affairs; why not change it? Let labor rule a short time and note the results. The Leadville (Col.) Star exhorts: Don’t be deceived; the Omaha nominees are the only ones supporting and advocating free and unlimited coinage of silver. Vote for the Peo pie’s party who are working not only for those now living but generations yet unborn who may bless or curse our work. Get in line, stand with the populists ; vote for the national and state canidates of the People’s party, and let the goldbug go to hades. The Rossville (Ind.,) Journal says : From many parts of the state come the reports of immense mass meetings by the people. Our leaders are hew ing to the line, and our voters rejoice. Accessions are reported everywhere. It is to be hoped our central com mittee will make arrangements at the meeting tomorrow to have a public demonstration in this county. Let every one up and at them boys, and victory will perch upon our banner. The Newton (Iowa) Herald says : We have but two real parlies : The party of monopoly and the People’s patry. What was the real cause of the trouble and bloodshed at Home stead ? The relentless and cruel greed of corporate power. Corpora tions are greater robbers of earnings than ever was chattie slavery. Abolish all corporations for pecuniary profit. The Acorn, Marshall, 111., says: Four years ago Cleveland carried Alabama by a majority of over Cl,ooo. Have you read the result of last Monday’s election in that State ? One great fact before the American people with respect to Gen. Weaver’s candidacy is this: He is a safe man—one who has on all occasions proved himself trustworthy and able to defend the rights of all the people. If elected he will be Chief Executive of ail the people. Farmers Tribune, Des Mjiue g lowa The man who presis!s in trying to urge himself into the belief that the People’s party stands no show for success in the coming election, is simply wasting time. This is a peo ple’s movement, and the people are going to walk up to the polls and vote in their own inserests. Don’t stop to ask what Colorado and Mont ana and Georgia and the Carolinas, and Kansas and other states will do ’ lou khow their electoral votes will be cast for Weaver. But what will your township and your county do? You can carry them—of course you can. This talk about throwing votes away when voting for a good cause in a grand, united movement, is all bosh, and you know it. The day for ridicule and abuse of men who dare to exercise the right of franchise as free American ci izens is past. Professional political wire-pullers can no longer run things in the interest of organized monopoly that denies labor the right to organize in its own behalf. The People’s party is bound to be a great, grand success from one end of the land to the other, and the man who acts the tory will have the supreme satisfaction after the votes are counted us looking backward on a very stupid career. Be a man and ake a manly strnd in this great moveo ment of the people, is the only safe rule to insure a clear conscience. We Have To Do It. Virginia Sun. The designing politician, who does not know a gentleman when he sees one, is getting in his dirty work ma ligning and slandering two of the noblest gentlemen God ever made— General Weaver and General Field. It is said of Weaver that he man aged to keep well to the rear during the war, that he is a broken-down politician, has been everything and nothing long, and is a bitter South hater. Manufactured out of the whole cloth, gentlemen, and you know it. Weaver was promoted general for gallantry in the field. His political career could not be more consistent, and is only possible to an able and honest man. Raised a Republican and taught to hate the South, at the opening of his career he could only speak as he had been taught. But when he saw that the Republican party was handing over the people to the tender mercies of corporations, he left that party and became a Dem ocrat, believing in the innocence of his soul, that it was the party of the people. He soon found that the Democratic party was as perfectly under the control of Wall street as the Republican, and seeing the terri ble sufferings inflicted upon the peo ple by the destruction of their money, he became a greenbacker, and he has been one ever since. He has not come to the People’s party, but the people have gone to him. We have the honor of knowing Gen. Weaver personally, and we are proud to say that we know no truer, abler, more determined and consistent advocate of the people’s rights. If you wish to know what maimer of man he is, read his look—A Call to Action— and you cannot help but admire and respect its author. As for Weaver being a South-hater, it is all bosh. Years ago he hated the South, just like we hated the North, but to-day he loves the South a great deal bet ter than we love the North. He is clearly ahead of us on that score. But what folly for the people to object to Weaver because he is a Northern man, and to Field because he is a Southern man I We unite them on the People’s ticket purposely to prove beyond all gainsaying that the war is over and sectionalism is dead. No one objects but the old parties, who can’t understand how this Government can be run without sectional hate, and don’t mean to try. Now, a word in defence of Gen. Field. He does not really need any defending, but malicious 11 s are be ing circulated about him, an/ *''me people are foolish enough to BehAl them. It is said that he defaulted to the State in thousands of dollars— some put it as high as $50,000. Ilere is the harmless little seed that germ inated into that monstrosity. Before General Field was Attorney General he was employed by the Governor as counsel under a resolution of the House of Delegates. For his ser vices he was paid the usual fees in the usual manner. Subsequently the Legislature refused to sanction the payment on the ground that the Sen ate had not concurred. That is all of it, and General Field stands ready to day to meet any demands the State may may make on him, but hitherto she has made none. Next, General Field is called a Mahone repudiator. How* convenient diort memories are to these cam paign liars. General Field was never anything but a straight-out Democrat. He was elected Attor ney General on the same ticket as Governor Holiday, and when the Readjuster Cameron was elected Governor over Major Daniel, often speaking with him from the same platform. Nailing liesis a species of carpen try we have little stomach for. It would suit us much better to nail the liar, but in these cases he always takes care to hide behind a third party, and that is the only kind of third party he has any use for. However, we are going to have the biggest crop of campaign lies ever raised, and we shall be kept pretty busy nailing them until next No vember. Don’t blame the Sun for nailing, but the liars for lying. Taliaferro County. After short notices the citizens of the 603 d district met August 13th, and organized with twenty members. Officers: Chairman, E. D. Hadaway ; Secretary, J. S. Flynt; Lecturer, T. L. Bently. NOT A REVOLT; IT IS A REVOLUTION. Tom Watsons Book Now on hand. For sale at the Office of the Peoples Party Paper. A campaign terror. Everybody needs it. Speakers must have it. Price, One Dollar. THE PEOPLES PARTY. State Platform, Adopted at Atlan ta, July 20th, 1592. We endorse and reaffirm the preamble, resolutions and platform adopted by the People’s Party in national convention as semoled at Omaha, July 4, 1892. We indorse the ticket nominated and pledge the party when it shall come into power in the State to frame and administer the laws in the spirit of the Omaha platform, which is equal justice to all, and special privileges to hone. 2. We condemn the convict lease sys tem. 3. We demand rigid economy in all public matters and inist on every pos sible reduction of taxation during the present impoverished* condition of the people. And we call public attention to the fact that the producing interest in both city and country is bearing more than its fair share of taxation. National Platform, Adopted at Omaha, July 4th. 1892 Assembled upon the one hundred and six teenth anniversary of the declaration of inde pendence, the People's Party of America, in their first national convention, invoking upon their action the blessing of the Almighty God, put forth in the name of ttie people of this country, the following preamble and declara tion of principles; The conditions which surround us best justify out co-operation; we meet in the midst of a nation brought to the verge of moral, political and material ruin. Corrup tion dominates the ballot box, legislatures, congress, and touches even the ermine of the bench. The people are demoralized; most of the states nave been compelled to isolate voters at polling places to prevent univt rsal in timidation or bribery. Newspapers are largely subsidized or muzzled; public opinion silenced; business prostrated; our homes covered with mortgages; labor im poverished ; and the land concentrating in the hands of capitalists. The urban work men are denied the right of organization for self-protection; imported pauperized labor beats down their wages ; a hireling standing army, unrecognized by our laws, is estab lished to shoot them down, and they are rapidly degenerating into European condi tions. The fruits of the toil of millions are boldly stolen to build up colossal fortunes for a few, unprecedented in the history of mankind; and the possessors of these in turn despise the republic and endanger liberty. From the same prolific womb of governmental injustice, we breed two great classes—tramps and millionaires. National power to create money is appropriated to enrich bondholders; a vast public debt pay able in legal tender currency has been funded into gold bearing bonds, thereby adding millions to the burdens of the peo ple. Silver, which has been accepted as coin since the dawn of history, has been demonetized to add to the purchasing pow er of gold by decreasing the value of all forms of property as well as human labor, and the supply of currency is purposely abridged to fatten usurers, bankrupt enter prise and enslave industry. A vast con spiracy against mankind has been organized on the two continents and it is rapidly taking possession of the world. If not met and overthrown at once it forebodes terrible social convulsions, the destruction of civil ization or the establishment of an absolute despotism. We have witnessed for more than a quar ter of a century the struggles of two great political parties for power and plunder, while grievous wrongs have been inflicted, upon the suffering people. We charge that the controlliug influence dominating both these parties has permitted the exist- Ving dreadful conditions to develop without t serious effort to prevent or restrain them. Neither do they now promise us any sub stantial reform. They have agreed togeth er to ignore in the coming campaign every issue but one. They propose to drown out the cries of the plundered people with the uproar of a sham battle over the tariff, so that capitalists, corporations, national banks, rings, trusts, watered stock, de monetization of silver and the oppression of the usurers may all be lost sight of. They propose to sacrifice our homes, lives and children on the altar us mammon ; to destroy the multitude in order to secure corruption funds from millionaires. Assembled on the anniversary of the birthday of the nation and filled with the spirit of the grand general-in-chief who es tablished our independence, we seek to re store the government of the republic to the hands of “the plain people” with whose class it originated. We assert our purposes to be identical with the purposes of the national constitu tion—to form a more perfect union and es tablish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the bless ings of liberty for ourselves and our pos terity. We declare that this republic can only endure as a free government while built upon the 1 ove of the whole people for each other, and for the nation; that it can not be pinned together by bayonets; but the civil war is over and that every passion and resentment which grew out of it must die with it, and that we must be in fact, as we are in name, one united brotherhood. Our country find's itself confronted by conditions for which there are no prece dents in the history of the world. Our annual agricultural productions amount to billions of dollars in value, which must within a few weeks or months, be exchang ed for billions of dollars of the commodi ties consumed in their production. The currency supply is wholly inade quate to make the exchange. The results are falling prices; formation of combines and rings; and the impoverishment of the producing class. We pledge ourselves that if given power we will labor to correct these evils by wise and reasonable legislation in accordance with the terms of our platform. We be lieve that the powers of government—in other words of the people—should be ex panded as in the case of the postal service, as rapidly and as far as the good sense of an intelligent people and the teachings of experience shall justify, to the end that op pression, injustice and poverty shall event ually cease in the laud. While our sym pathies, as a party of reform, are naturally upon the side of every proposition whicn will tend to make men intelligent, virtuous and temperate, we nevertheless regard these questions—important as they are — as secondary to the great issues now press ing for solution and upon which not only our individual prosperity but the very exist ence of free institutions depend, and we ask all men to first help us to determine whether we are to have a republic to ad minister, before we differ as to the condi tions upon which it is to be administered, believing that the forces of reform this day organized will never cease to move for ward until every wrong is righted and equal rights and equal privileges securely. established for all men and women of this country. We declare, therefore: 1. That the union of the Labor forces of the Uniled States this day consummated shall be permanent and perpetual. May its spirit enter into all hearts for the salvar tion of the republic and the uplifting of mankind. 2. Wealth belongs to him who creates it, and every dollar taken from industry with out an equivalent is robbery. “If any will not work, neither shall he eat.” The in terests of rural and civic labor are the nme; their enemies are identical. 3. We believe that the time has come tvhen railroad corporations will either own the people or the people must own the rail roads : and should the government enter ipon the work of owning and managing all ] :ajlfoads, we t slx2hldlavor an aoiendjaent to the constitution by which all persons engaged in the government service shall be placet! under a civil service regulation of the most rigid character, so as to prevent an increase of the power of the national administration by the use of such addition al government employes. We demand a national currency, safe sound and flexible, issued by the general government only, a full legal tender for all debts, public and private, and that with out the use of banking corporations ; a just, equitable and efficient means of distribu tion direct to the people at a tax not to ex ceed 2 per cent per annum be provided as I set forth in the sub-treasury plan of the : Farmers’ Alliance, or some better system; also by payment in discharge of its ob ligations for public improvements. vVe demand the free and unlimited coin age of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1. We demand that the amount of the cir culating medium be spcediiy increased to not less than fifty dollars per capita. j We demand a graduated income tax. We believe that the money of the coun try should be kept as much as possible in the hands of the people, and hence we demand, that all state and national revenues shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the government economically and honestly administered. We demand that postal savings banks be established by the government for the safe deposit of the earnings of the people and to facilitate exchange. Transportation being a means of ex change and a public necessity, the govern ment should own and operate the railroads in the interest of the people. The tele graph and the telephone, like the postal system, being a necessity for the trans mission of news, should be owned and op erated by the government in the interest of the people. The land, including all the natural sources of wealth, is the heritage of all the people and should not be monopolized for speculative purposes, and alien ownership of land should be prohibited. All lands now held by railroads and other corpora tions in excess of their actual needs, and all lands now owned by aliens should b* reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only. Supplemental Resolutions. i Whereas, other questions have been present ed for our consideration, we hereby submit the following', not as a part of the platform of the People’s Party, but as resolutions expres sive of the sentim nt of this co «vention. First —Resolved, That we demand a free bal lot and a fair count in all elections and pledge ourselves to secure it to every legal voter without federal intervention through the adoption by the States of the unperverted Australian or secret ballot system. Second—Res flved, That the revenue derived from a graduated income tax should be applied to the reduction of the burden of taxation now resting upon the domestic industries of this country. Third—Resolved, That we pledge our sup port to fair and liberal pensions to ex-Union soldiers and sailors. fourth—Resolved, That we condemn the fallacy of protecting American labor unuer the present system, which opens our ports to the pauper and criminal classes of the world, and crowds out our wage earners; and we de nounce the present ineffective laws against contract labor, and demand the further re striction of undesirable immigration. Fifth—Resolved, That we cordially sympa thize with the efforts of orga dzed working men to shorten the hours of labor, and demand a rigid enforcement of the existing eight-hour law on government work, and ask that a pen alty clause be added to the said law. Sixt h—Resolved, That we regard the main tenance of a large standing army of mercena ries, known as the Pinkerton system, as a men ace to our liberties, and we demand its aboli -1 tion ; and we condemn the recent invasion of ■ the territory of Wyoming by the hired assas i sins of plutocracy, assisted by federal officials Seventh—Resolved, That we commend to the , favorable cons.deration of the people and the reform press the legislative system known as ’ the initiative and referendum. Eight—Resolved, That we favor a constitn- • tional provision limiting the office of President > and vice-President to one term, and providing -for the election of Senators of the United ’ States by a direct vote of the people. Ninth—Resolved, That we oppose any sub ’ sidy or national aid to an private corporation ■ for any purpose. ’ “The People’s Party at the -outset to secure • permanent control of the party organization of the people unaffected by the interests of those ; in public service does hereby in national con i vention assembled at Omaha on the 4th of , July, 5892, establish this ordinance as funda mental law of party organization, viz: No per son holding any office or position of profit, trustror emolument under the federal or any state or municipal government, including Sen ators, Congressmen and members of the Leg islature. State and local, shall be eligible to sit or vote in any convention of this party, and a copy of this ordinance shall be annexed by ev ery call for any f uture convention of the par ty.’’ RESOLUTION OF SYMPATHY. Resolved, That this convention sympathizes ■with the Knights of Labor in their righteous contest with the tyrannical combine of cloth ing manufacturers of Rochester and declares it to be the duty of all who hate tyranny and oppression to refuse to purchase the goods made by said manufacturers or to patronize any merchants who sell such goods. County Organizations. > Clubs ought to be formed at once in every militia district in every county in Georgia. Keep things warm, The campaign committee urges that every possible effort be made to get subscribers for the People’s thirty Paper. It is the safest, surest and cheapest campaign work that can be done. PEOPLE’S PARTY PAPERS IK GEORGIA Farmers’ Light, Harlem, Columbia county. Farmers’ Friend, Waynesboro, Burke county. News and Allianceman, Jackson, Butts county. Banks County Gazette, Homer, Banks county. Hinesville Gazette, Hinesville, Liberty county. The Allianceman, Atlanta, Fulton county. Southern Alliance Farmer, Atlanta, Fulton county. The Enterprise, Carnesville, Frank lin county. The News, Ball Ground, Cherokee county. People’s Party Paper, Atlanta. Farmers’ Herald, Wrightsville. Johnson county. Alliance Plow Boy, Buford, Gwin nett county. Progress, Cleveland, White county. People’s Advocate, Greensboro, Green county. Signal, Dahlonega, Lumpkin coun ty. Bullock Banner, Statesboro, Bul lock county. -x. News, Jonesboro, Clayton county. The Wool Hat, Grace wood, Rich mond county. Hon. Thus. E. Watson’s Address Should be Read by the Millions The friends of Reform cannot de a better thing for the cause than to circulate the address of Hon. Thos. E. Watson, which appeared in the People’s Party Paper of March 17th. In order that it may be circulated at very small cost, we will put it into a two page supplement form and fur nish it to the people at 75 cents per hundred copies, or in smaller num bers, not less than ten, at one cent each. Send in your orders. 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