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THE PLATFORM. 1
ADOPTED BY THE PEOPLE’S PARTY
ST. LOUIS CONVENTION.
A Declaration of Principles Which Should
Enlist the Hearty Support of Every
American Citizen Who Loves His Coun
try.
The People’s Party, assembled in na
tional convention, reaffirms its allegi
ance to the principles declared by the
founders of the republic, and also to the
fundamental principles of just govern
ment as enunciated in the platform of
the party in 1892. We recognize that
through the connivance of the present
and preceding administrations the coun
try has reached a crisis in its national
life, as predicted in our declaration four
years ago, and that prompt and patriotic
action is the supreme duty of the hour.
We realize that while we have political
independence our financial and indus
trial independence is yet to be attained
by restoring to our country the consti
tutional control and exercise of the
functions necessary to a people’s govern
ment, which functions have been basely
surrendered by our public servants to
corporate monopolies. The influence of
European money changers has been
more potent in shaping legislation than
the voice of the American people. Ex
ecutive power and patronage have been
used to corrupt our legislatures and de
feat the will of the people, and plu
tocracy has thereby been enthroned upon
the ruins of Democracy. To restore the
government intended by the fathers, and
for the welfare and prosperity of this
and future generations, we demand the
establishment of an economic and finan
cial system which shall make us masters
of* our own affairs and independent of
European control by the adoption of the
following declaration of principles:
FINANCE.
1. We demand a national money,
safe and sound, issued by the general
government only, without the interven
tion of banks of issue, to be a full legal
tender for all debts, public and private;
a just, equitable and efficient means of
distribution direct to the people and
through the lawful disbursement of the
government.
8. We demand the free and unre
stricted coinage of silver and gold at
the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, with
out waiting for the consent of foreign
nations.
8. We demand the volume of circu
lating medium be speedily increased to
an amount sufficient to meet the de
mands of the business and population of
this country and to restore the just level
of prices of labor and production.
4. We denounce the sale of bondsand
the increase of the public interest bear
ing debt made by the present adminis
tration ns unnecessary ami without au
thority of law, and that no more bonds
be issued except by tpeoiflo act of con
gross.
6. We demand such legislation as
will prevent the demonetization of the
lawful money of the United States by
private contract
0. Wo demand that the government,
in payment of its obligations, shall use
its option M to the kind of lawful mon
ey in which they are to bo paid, and wo
denounce the present and preceding ad
ministrations for surrendering this op
tion to the holders of government obli
gations.
7. Wo demand a graduated income
tax, to the end that aggregated wealth
shall b.iur its just proportion of taxa
tion and we regard the recent decision
of'u? supreme court relative to the in
come tax law as a misinterpretation of
the constitution and an invasion of the
rightful powers of congress over the
subject of taxation.
8. Wo demand that postal savings
banks bo established by tho government
for tho safe deposit of the savings of tho
people uud to facilitate exchange.
TRANSPORTATION.
1. Transportation being a means of
exchange and a publio necessity, the
government should own and operate the
railroads in the interest of ibo people
and on a nonpartisan basis, to tho end
that all may be accorded tho same treat
ment in transportation, and that the
tyranny and political power now exer
cised Ly the great railroad coiporations,
which result in the impairment, if not
the destruction, of the political rights
and personal liberties of the citizens,
may be destroyed. Such ownership is
to be accomplished gradually in a man
ner consistent with sound publio policy.
8. The interest of the United States
in the public highways built with pub
lio moneys and the proceeds of extensive
grants of laud to tho Pacific railroads
should never be alienated, mortgaged or
sold, but guarded and protected for the
general welfare, as provided by the laws
organizing such railroads. The fore
closure of existing liens of the United
States on these roads should at once fol
low default in the payment thereof by
the debtor companies, and at the fore
closure sales of said roads the govern
ment shall purchase the same if it be
comes necessary to protect its interests
therein or if they can be purchased at
a reasonable price, and the government
shall operate said railroads as public
highways for the benefit of tho whole
people and not in the interest of the
few, under suitable provisions for pro
tection of life and property, giving to
all transportation interests equal privi
leges and equal rates for fares and
freights.
8 We denounce the present infamous
schemes for refunding these debts and
demand that the laws now applicable
thereto be executed and administered
according to their true intent and spirit.
4. The telegraph, like the postoffice
system, being a necessity for the trans
mission of news, should be owned and
operated by the government in the in
terest of the people.
LAND.
1. The true policy demands that the
national and state legislation shall be
such as will ultimately enable every
prudent and industrious citizen to se
cure a home, and that land should not
be monopolized for speculative purposes.
All lands now held by railroads and
other companies in excess of their actual
needs should by lawful means be re
claimed by the government and field for
actual settlers, and private land monop
oly, as well as alien ownership, should
be prohibited.
2. We condemn the frauds by which
the land grant Pacific railroad com
panies have, through the connivance of
the interior department, robbed multi
tudes of actual bona fide settlers of their
homes and miners of their claims, and
we demand legislation by congress
which will enforce the exemption of
mineral land from such grants, after as
well as before patent.
8. We demand that bona fide settlers
on all public lands be granted free
homes, as provided in the national
homestead law, and that no exception
be made in the case of Indian reserva
tions when opened for settlement, and
that all lands not now patented come
under this demand.
DIRECT LEGISLATION.
We favor a system of direct legisla
tion through the initiative and referen
dum under proper constitutional safe
guard*
GENERAL PROPOSITIONS.
1. We demand the election of presi
dent, vice president and United States
senators by, a direct vote of the people
2. We tender to the patriotic people
of Cuba our deepest sympathy in their
heroic struggle for political freedom
and independence, and we believe the
time has come when the United States,
the great republic of the world, should
recognize that Cuba is, and of right
ought to be, a free and independent
state.
8. We favor home rule in the terri-
■ tories and the District of Columbia and
the early .admission of the territories as
states.
4. AH public salaries should bo made
to correspond to the price of labor and
its products.
6. In times of great industrial de
pression idle labor should be employed
I on public works as far as practicable.
6. The arbitrary course of the courts
I in assuming to imprison citizens for in
direct contempt and ruling them by in
junction should be prevented by proper
legislation.
7. We favor just pensions for our dis
abled Union soldiers.
8. Believing that the elective fran
chise and untrammeled ballot are essen
tial to a government for and by the peo
ple, the People’s Party condemns the
wholesale system of disfranchisement
adopted in some of the states as unre
publican aud undemocratic, and we de
clare it to be the duty of the several
state legislatures to take such action as
will secure a full, free and fair ballot
and an honest count.
9. While the foregoing propositions
constitute the platform on which our
party stands, and for the vindication of
which its organization will be main
tained, we recognize that the great and
pressing issue of the pending campaign
upon which the present presidential
election will turn is the financial ques
tion, and upon this great and specific
Issue between the parties we cordially
Invite the aid and co-operation of all or
ganizations and citizens agreeing with
us upon this vital question.
THE NASHVILLE CONFERENCE
Below will be found ihe address
issued bv the National Conference of
•he People’s Party which was held at
Nashville, Tenn , July 4 1897.
address.
TO THE PEOPLE’S PARTY OF THE UNITED
BTATES:
Disclaiming any Intention to dictate
to the Populist voters of the United
States, or any feeling of bitterness
towards those who may have honestly
differed from us in the past on matters
of party policy, in the words of the im
mortal Lincoln, ‘ With malice toward
none, with charity for all, with firm
ness In the right as God gives us to see
the right; wo submit to every patriotic
oitizen the following address:
In 1891 there was organized at Cin
cinnati a great political party, whose
principles were as vast an innovation
upon existing beliefs as wore the grand
generalization of Thomas Jefferson in
the Declaration of I n.h-peml.mce an ad
vance upon tho Ideas commonly held
by the world in 177 H
The latter proclaimed Lite legal
equality of all men, and their right to
liberty and luippim-ss; the former de
dared that government is a mere in
strumentality, formed by all for the
enforcement of the welfare of all; that
labor of bruin mid brawn is the solo
parent of prosperity, society and clvill
ration, That ''wealth belongs to him
who creates it, and that every dollar
taken from Industry, without uu equiv
alent, is robbery, that if any man will
not work, neither shall he eat; that the
Interests of rural and civic labor are
the same, while their enemies lire iden
tical.”
These ideas are the natural sequence
and supplement to the Declaration of
Independence. Without them the words
of Jeffersou are a mere "brutuin ful
men.” The right to "pursue happi
ness” is of no avail if men are prevented
by misgovernment from attaining it.
Liberty is but an idle word if the
human family are to be swept through
fioverty and suffering in bondage. Life
tself is not worth having ,t the price
of shame aud degrade in. The New
World is no better th the Old World
if the condition of people is the
same.
We escaped from England iu 1776
We are again her subjects in 1897. Wo
are not permitted to pass laws neces
sary for our own welfare, without her
consent; and that co use nt cannot be
had since she thrives by plundering us.
Cheap production in the United States
means cheap supplies for her citizens
Instead of a sovereign people, leading
the world to higher levels of state
craft and development, as the greatest,
most powerful and most thoroughly
educated Commonwealth on earth, we
are dwarfed into mere provincials, toil
ing to enrich our cunning masters,
side by side with the starving Hindoo,
the wretched Egyptian and the im
poverished Irishman.
The people’s party was born to live
and not to die. It was created not to
put a few men in office, but to give to i
all men that happiness guaranteed by
the Constitution of the United States.
The conditions which five y> ars ago
demanded the establishment of our or
ganization, insist today, with ten-fold
force, that it shall live as long as a
single wrong exists anrighled on the
face of the earth.
To resist these evils, we organized in I
1891 We meet in 1897 to renew the '
faith; to proclaim that the battle is not I
yet over; that it is just beginning, and ■
that we will continue the good fight as
long as God lets us live.
While we have the largest toleration
for all honest differences of opinion,
and will welcome to our ranks ail pa
triots, we declare that those who think
the party ought to die have no more
place in its ranks than Benedict Arnold
had in the Continental army or Judas
Iscariot iu the Christian (Lurch. Fi
delity to principle is above all other
considerations, since such fidelity
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While we have nothing but kindly
fooling* towards tho rank and file of
our lai o al lien, wo do not believe that
tho question of free silver Is in Itself a
broad enough platform for a national
party Tho remonetization of silver
would, wo believe, increase the price of
Inbor and its productions by increasing
the supply <>f money, and it le therefore
u matter of the Utmost consequence to
all the people of the United Statea;but
It must not be forgotten that the open
ing of the mints Io silver would not de
crease one iota the robberies of the cor
porations, the usurers, the rings and
tho trusts. It will avail nothing to
add to the value of labor and its pro
ductions if the exactions of plunderers
are permitted to increase in equal or
greater proportion.
As our Democratic brethren had nob
patriotism enough to adept free silver
until we had popularized it, would they
not, slump back to their first wretched
state if the People’s party were to stop
its missionary work'?
The democracy may be fit to assist in
handling a single temporary side issue
like free silver, but the welfare of man
kind and the interests of all the ages
demand the continued existence of the
People’s party. Free institutions can
not survive its destruction. It lias done
more for mankind in five years than
any oilier party has accomplished in
twenty-five years. All arguments have
ceased against its principles; there is
nothing left but misrepresentati -n.
It is the only national part,) in the
United States. It has eliminated the
last lingering bitterness of the civil
war. There is no fraternal blood on
its garments. Its mission is education I
and peace. It wi.l eventually make us
one people, bound together by liga
ments of mutual esteem and love from ;
the lakes to the gulf.
We call upon the whole people to
rally to its standard. There is room
for all and a heart big enough for all.
Let dissensions cease. Close up the
gaps and forward to victory. Let every
Populist become a missionary to pros
elyte the unthinking and convert the
mistaken. Let us meet prejudices with
fads, passion with patience and igno
rance with intelligence. The fiat of
God must be repealed—“ Let there be
light.”
We see our leading men traduced and
libeledbecause they will not sell us out.
We must stand by them. We see our
newspapers biycotted b'cause they I
will not assist in the destruction of the ’
liberties and rights of the people; We
The Mother’s Pay Day.
What pay does a hard-working mother of
a family receive for her labor at the end of a
|lj|i||ll ||l( week? The husband may
JltoUlJ I bring home his regular
J" i *X es - Seme of the child-I
jnjJJji.'. rc “ ,Uii y be old I
•" iWa enough to earn I
theirs. But the I
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(tkz \V- !U®s I rfflr her pay for hi r |
/ |T\ days of toil and ■
4 f k \ often night* of j
)■< I \ anxiety? Well,
•' kVshe is either
The majontv
' A" of ’"o'heis ".re
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’ \\A fled with the
pimple recompense of loving appreciation.
If any mother doesn’t receive that much,
it’s an awful pity.
It's a id thing when the mother comes
-down sick with overwork or worry, or be
cause some little weakness or disease lias
been neglected until it gets to be alarming
It should never be allowed to get to thi
point. She ought to be looked after light
away. She needs the help of common sense
medical treatment. Os course no one inedi- I
cine.will cure everything. A medicine must
be specially adaptetl to its particular purpose.
If the digestive organs or the liver are out
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covery is a p’-rfect and scientific remedy.
His “Favorite Prescription” is specially
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must sustain them and spread their cir
culation everywhere.
We are engaged in the most desper
ate battle ever waged in the world. It
is the conflict of the few armed with
gigantic powers against the many. It
signifies the exploitation of labor by
the idle rich, so that those “who toil
not, neither do they spin,” shall rob
industry of its reward and leave those
who produce all wealth without homes,
clothes or food. The eight million far
mers who have just perished of starva
tion in Hindostan are not the victims
of drouth alone, but of cruel misgovern
ment also by their English masters,
who so impoverished them that they
had no resources to fall back upon
when a failure of crops occurred. In
their miseries we read our own danger;
in their present we see our future,
unless we possess more than Hindoo
capacity to defend ourselves against
the despoilers of the world.
We ask all who are in deadly earnest
in seeking reform to uniteowith us.
For the pullers of wires and seek
ers of office we have no place or pa- ■
tience When humanity is sinking into
the abyss it is of no moment whether
the duty on calico is a half penny more
or less,
When we are utterly opposed to fu
sion, and know that it has brought
dissension in our ranks, weurecognize ■
the fact that many who favored it did i
so in the sincere belief that it was best I
for the country and for the party, but I
while holding these views, we declare
that no convention, caucus or commit- '
tee of our party, shall ever again bind ;
us to any fusion agreement with either
the Democratic or Republican party.
We call the attention of the Ameri
can people to the fact that the national
banks under a Republican administra
tion are now last putting into circula
tion a vast quantity of national bank
notes, taken out on the 8262,000,000 of
Cleveland bonds, which, though adding
to the burden of debt and reaching off i
culation by high interest, furnishes an
increased supply of money and a better
pricing opportunity oa the American
markets. If prosperity, even tempora
ry, comes to our people, it will be by
this increased money supply—not by
the Dingley tariff or any other tari
measure, as will probably soon be
claimed by the Republican politicians.
We believe that no reliance can be
placed in the promises of those who
control and manipulate the policy and
action of the two old parties. They '
have broken every pledge and violated
every trust reposed in them by a con
tiding constituency. With the anti
eleetion prornisas in favor of free silver
itill ringing in the people’s ears, the
Democratic Legislatures of five States
defeated bills to prohibit the making
of gold contracts.
With the suffering and dissatisfied
rank and file of those parties, we are
in hearty sympathy and will gladly
welcome them into the People's party.
Wo reaffirm the principles enunci
ated in the platforms of our party in
the full belief that when enacted into
law they will produce universal pros
perity.
Wo reaffirm the previous declarations
of our pnrt.i iu favor of the initiative
and refereu uu and recommend thatthe
People's pai y adopt, this system in ail
party procc'lings, believing that tlie
direct control of legislation by the poo
pie themselves is the only remedy for
corruption in party management us
well us in the law mulling power, by
corporate wealth, now so universal In |
this countr We look upon this as i
the moat Important question now be ■
fore the Am rican people, since it In-J
volvas the continuance of free Instltu
lions.
I'liAM.
To the end of forming u more perfect
and compact organization, extending
the work of education, adding recruits
to and pte*ervlng the autonomy of the
People's party, we reconimeud the
adoption of the following plan:
I. The election by the conference of I
a national organization committee to
be composed of three members from
each State here represented, said mem
bors to bo selected by tliesoversl State
delegation*' , In States not represented*
at tliis conference, the national Organl
ration conin*ttee, here created, may at
their discretion provide for a proper
representation on the committee.
t. The election by this conference of
a chairman of the national organiza
tion committee, whose duty it will be
to push the work of organization along
strictly Populist lines, and in the inter
est of Populist principles and Populist
candidates; to preside over all meet
ings of the national organization com
mittce and to perforin all other duties
usually incumbent upon such officer.
8. The election by thia conference of
an executive committee of five mem
bers whom the chairman may nomi
nate from the members of the national
organization committee, whose duties
shall consist in assisting in the work
of organization and education, aud who
shall 00-operate with the chairman in
his efforts to preserve and extend the
organization of the party.
4. The election of a National Secre
tary whose duties shall be such as ars
usually performed by such officer.
5. The election of a Treasurer, who '
■hall have charge of tho funds of the
organization and perform such duties
as are made incumbent upon him by
the Executive committee.
0. The officers of this organization
shall hold their office until the lime of
holding the next national convention.
7. The National Organization Com
mittee hereby created is instructed to
look after the work of organization
and education in each state, to reform ■
our lines and to co-operate with the
regular organization when in line with
Populist principles.
8. We further recommend that in
each township, county and state, the
committees be looked after by the
members of the National Organization
Committee, and where necessary re
organized by the election of members
who are in harmony with the party
and its principles, and who are in favor
of preserving its autonomy.
9. We urge upon the members of this
party the necessity of more thorough
aud vigorous plans of education and
organization than have been in vogue
the past two years. To that end we
heartily recommend the
and club plans perfected by the com
mittee appointed for that purpose bv
the National Reform Press at Memphis
of which .1 11. Ferriss, Joliet, 111., is
the sent Chairman.
19. The National Organization Com
mittee shall provide for the manage
ment of the committee here consti
tuted, the initiative and referendum
and imperative mandate, and we recom
mend that the first national convent ou '
of the People’s party shall adopt the j
same as a governing law of the party ■
in its entire organization.
11. The. National Organization Com 1
mittee of the People's party, chosen by
this conference, shall have full power
and authority to call a national con
vention of the party, or to submit any I
question to the voters of the parly on '
the referendum plan whenever they I
may determine that the best interests , I
of the party require the same. I .
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The hoarder of money is a knot on a
log.
Prejudice is the chain which binds
men in ignorance.
AH other rights should give way to
human rights,
A national bank is a sink-hole for
prosperity.
Congress seems to be a place where
theft is legalized.
The way to prepare for the next life
is to live right in this.
Interest bearing bonds are the chains
( that enslave labor.
1 “How not to do it” is the great ques
tion with the political bosses.
The national banker lives and thrives
on the interest of what he owes.
Stick to your old party and your old
clothes will stick to you. That’s the
1 logic of experience.
Because the majority of people per
sist in being fools is no reason you
should be one—that is if you’ve got
sense enough to help it.
There is no moral difference between
robbing by physical force and mental
force.
The church ought to have sense
enough to know that a man don’t want
to go to heaven hungry.
Rod don’t recogniz* people who pray
for what they are too lazy to work for.
Treason to humanity is trying to
hide behind the skirts of “property
rights.”
Under a system where every man is
for himself the devil will get the most
of them.
What we should do with the trusts is
not to investigate them but to extermi
na< e them.
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banker and manufacturer, is “in poli
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votes.
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ters to stick to the party they must see
to it that the old parties stick to th-'
pledges they make to the voters.
There is only one political party—the
Peoples. The other are only organized
appetites for spoils.
The old party papers say the Peoples
Party Is breaking up. Be that, ns It
tuny, a very large ehunk of it will hit
the old parties In 1900,
A poor loafer is a vagrant; a rich
loafer is a gentleman. It makes m
difference how tho one got rich or why
the other is poor. This Is civilization I
Bah I
The man who preaches to save his
salary instead of other pcop’e’s souls
will go to the devil —and it’ll be bad
for the devil, too.
The credit of this country is all right
except with the descendants of those
people who crucified Christ. Let ’em
sweat.
If the people were growing wise as
fast as they are growing poor the old
party bosses would soon be plowing
corn, handling a pick—or serving out a
term in the penitentiary.
If government can issue paper money
to pay men to shoot other men down,
why cannot it issue paper money to
employ men and keep them from crime
or starvation ?
If the government can issue money
to a banker on a bond for security,wby
cannot it issue money to a city, county
or state on a bond for security ? And
why could not the state give employ
ment to thA unemployed ?
Getting Scared.
The patriotic Democratic pie eaters
and pap uekers are showing their teeth
since it bas been announc'd that a bill
will be introduc d atthis session of the
legislature to inaugurate the salary
insteed of the fee system in Fulton
county. Letters have been sent out to
the horde cf county officers all over the
state to assemble in Atlanta to lobby
against the biH. They fear that if
adopted by Fulton that it will be
caught up by other counties, and it
should be. The idea of county officers,
solicitors and all that gang of hungry
greedy fellows growing rich and inde
pendent, while the poor devil of a far
mer can’t buy winter clothes for his
family and is forced to sell cotton seed
in order to raise money to pay his
taxes, is all wrong. Pay them salaries
for the labor done and if they don’t
like the amounts given to them, there
is no law under heaven to force them
to run for these offices, and as General
Toombs once said ther ver would
be a dearth of cand data nd the peo
ple could and would generally pick out
a good man and if he did not like the
pay, be could pour it back in the jug.
These are nice hirelings to assemble in
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sha'l be paid.
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when they h power to do so.
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