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THE PLATFORM.
ADOPTED BY THE PEOPLE’S PARTY
BT. LOUIS CONVENTION.
▲ Declaration of Principle# Which Should
Enllit the Hearty Support of Every
American Citizen Who Love* 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 exfercise 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 t
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
2. 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
. mauds of the business and population of
thia 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 as unnecessary and without au
thority of law, and that no more bonds
be issued except by specific act of con
gress.
6. We demand such legislation as
will prevent the demonetization of the
lawful money of the United States by
private contract
6. We demand that the government
in payment of its obligations, shall use
its option as to the kind of lawful mon
ey in which they are to be paid, and we
denounce the present and preceding ad
ministrations for surrendering this op
tion to the holders of government obli
gations.
7. We demand a graduated income
tax, to the end that aggregated wealth
_ shall bear its just. proportion of taxa
tion, and we regard the recent decision
of the 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. We demand that postal savings
banks be established by the government
for the safe deposit of the savings of the
people and to facilitate exchange.
TRANSPORTATION.
1. Transportation being a means of
exchange and a public necessity, the
government should own and operate the
railroads in the interest of the people
and on a nonpartisan basis, to the end
that all may be accord-id the same treat
ment in transportation, and that the
tyranny and political power now exer
cised t- ■ the great railroad corporations,
whicu -isultin 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 public policy.
2. The interest of the United States
in the public highways built with pub
lic moneys and the proceeds of extensive
grants of land to the 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 the 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 no .v held by railroads and
other companies in excess of their actual
needs should by lawful means be re
claimed by the government and held 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-
Mk tiou through the initiative and referen-
Sftfedum under proper ooustixuttoEuu aafe-
SQLrrda
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. All public salaries should be made
to correspond to the price of labor and
its products.
6. In times of great industrial de
pression idle labor should be employed
on public works as far as pract.cable.
6. The arbitrary course of the courts
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 and 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
•lection 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
a* upon this vital question.
THE NASHVILLE CONFERENCE
Below will b« found the address
issued by the National Conference of
he People’s Party which was held at
Nashville, Tenn , Julv 4, 1897.
ADDRESS.
TO THE PEOPLE’S PARTY OF THE UNITED
■tates:
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; we submit to every patriotic
citizen the following address:
In 1891 there was organized at Cin
oinnati a great political par’y, whose
principles were as vast an innovation
upon existing beliefs as were the grand
?eneralizatiou of Thomas Jefferson in
he Declaration of Independence an ad
vance upon the ideas commonly held
by the world in 1776.
The latter proclaimed the legal
equality of all men, and their right to
liberty and happiness; the former de
clared that government is a mere in
strumentality, formed by all for the
enforcement of the welfare of all; that
labor of brain and brawn is the sole
parent of prosperity, society and civili
zation, That “wealth belongs to him
who creates it, and that every dollar
taken from industry, without an 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 are iden
tical.’’
These ideas are the natural sequence
and supplement to the Declaration of
Independence. Without them the v ords
of Jefferson are a mere “brutum 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
poverty and suffering in bondage. Life
itself is not worth having ,t the price
of shame and degrada m. The New
World is no better th the Old World
if the condition of people is the
same.
We escaped from England in 1776
We are again her subjects in 1897. We
are not permitted to pass laws neces
sary for our own welfare, without her
consent; and that consent cannot be
had since she thrives by plundering us.
Cheap production in the United S'ates
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, toll
ing to enrich our cunning masters,
side by aide 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
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 anrighted on the
face of the earth.
To> resist these evils, we organized in
1891. We meet in 1897 to renew the
faith; to proclaim that the battle is not
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 d e have no more
place in ita ranks than Benedict Arnold
had in the Continental army or Juda*
Iscariot in the Christian ( hurch. Fi
delity to principle is above all other
cousidaratiotia, since such fidelity.
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mean* the greatness and happiness of
the human race.
While we have nothing but kindly
feeling- towards the rank and file of
our late al lies, we do not believe that
the questi jn of free silver is in itself a
broad enough platform for a national
party. Tne remonetization of silver
would, we believe, increase the price of
labor and its productions by increasing
the supply of money, and it is therefore
a matter bf tlie utmost consequence to
all the people of the United States; but
it must not be (©’ gotten that the open
ing of the. mints to silver would not de
crease one iota the robberies of the cor
porations, the usurers, the rings and
the 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
treater proportion.
As our Democratic brethren had not
patriotism enough to adopt 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 has done
more for mankind in five years than
any other party has accomplished in
twenty-five years. All arguments have
ceased against its principles; there is
nothing left but misrepresentat’ 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
and peace. It wifi 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
facts, passion with patience and igno
rance with intelligence. The fiat of
God must be repeated—" Let there be
light.”
We see our lead mg men traduced and
libeledbecause they will not sell us out.
We must stand by them. We see our
newspapers b 'ycotted because they
will not assist in the destruction of the
liberties and rights of the people; We
“The enemy is
coming-: To the fort
If for your lives!”
H When a wise man re-
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iPrUv/\ danger, he does not
AJfwait to let it overtake
see^s every
means to
fight it off.
Disease would almost nev
er get the best of the average
S man if he was prepared to i
resist it. and took the natu
ral precautions dictated by common sense.
When a man’s stomach and liver get up
set and fail to do their regular work, he can
be certain that something worse is bound t<>
follow, if he doesn’t look out for himself.
Headaches, indigestion, biliousness and
constipation are simply Nature’s warning'
that the enemy of serious disease is coming
to attack him.
The sensible thing to do is to immedi
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It gives the digestive and nutritive organ
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A sure and permanent cure for constipa
tion is Dr. Pierce’s Pellets. One ‘‘Pellet”
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must sustain them and spread their clr
eulation 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 aho by their English masters,
who so imi overished 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 unites with ua.
For the mere pullers of wires and seek
ers of office we have no place or pa
tience When humanity la 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 haa brought
dissension in our ranks, weurecognize
the fact that many who favored it did
so in the sincere belief that it was best
for the country and for the party, but
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 fast putting into circula
tion a vast quantity of national bank
notes, taken out on the *269,000,000 of
Cleveland bonds, which, though adding
to tne burden of debt and reaching cir
culation by high interest, furnishes an
increased supply of money and a better
pricing opportunity on the American
markets. If prosperity, even tempora
ry, comes to our people, it will baby
this increased money supply—not by
the Dingley tariff or any other tar
measure, as will probably soon be
•Uimed 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
fiding constituency. With the anti
election promises in favor of free silver
jtill ringing in the people’s ears, the
Democratic. Legislatures of five States
defeated, bills to prohibit the making
•f 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.
We reaffirm the principles enunci
ated in the platforms of our party in
the full belief that when enacted into
law they .vill produce universal pros
perity.
We reaffirm the previous declarations
of our parti in favor of the initiative
and referen im and recommend thatthe
People’s pai y adopt this system in all
Sarty proce- dings, believing that the
Irect control of legislation by the peo
ple themselves is the only remedy for
corruption in narty management as
well as in the law-making power, by
corporate wealth, now so universal in
this count: '. We look upon this as
the most important question now be
fore the Am rican people, since it in
volves the continuance of free institu
tions.
PLAN.
To the end of forming a more perfect
and compact organization, extending
the work of education, adding recruits
to and preserving the autonomy of the
People’s party, we recommend the
adoption of the following plant
1. The election by the conference of
a national organization committee to
be composed of three members from
each State here represented, said mem
bers to be selected by thesoversl State
delegations. In Slatesnot represented
at this conference, the national organi
zation committee, here oreated, may at
their discretion provide for a proper
representation on the committee.
2. The election by this conference of
a chairman of the national organiza
tion committee, whose daty 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
mittee and to perform all other duties
usually incumbent upon such officer.
8. The election by this conference of
an executive committee of five mem
bers whom the chairman mar nomi
nate from the members of the national
organization committee, whose duties
•ball consist in assisting in the work
of organization and education, and who
■hall co-operate with the chairman lx
his efforts to preserve and extend the
organization of the party.
I. The election of a National Heore
tary whose duties shall be sueh as ars
usually performed by auoh officer.
#. The election of a Treasurer, who
shall have charge of the funds of the
Organization and perform such duties
aa are made incumbent upon him by
the Executive committee.
6. The officers of thia erganization
•hall hold their office until the time of
holding the next national oonvention.
7. The National Organisation Com
mittee hereby created la inatruoted to
look after the work of organisation
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 ita principles, and who are in favor
of preserving its autonomy.
9. We urge upon the members of this
party the necessity of more thorough
and vigorous plans of education and
organization than have been in vogue
the past two years. To that end we
heartily recommend the co-operative
and club plans perfected by the com
mittee appointed for that purpose bv
the National Reform Press at Memphis
of which J 11. Ferriss, Joliet, 111,, is
sent. Chairman.
10. I'he National Organization Com
mittee shall provide for the manage
ment of tb-> committee here consti
tuted, the initiative and referendum
and imperative mandate, and we recom
mend that the first national convention
of the People’s party shall adopt the
same as a governing law of the parti
in its entire organ,zation.
11. The National Organization Com
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
question to the voters of the party on
the referendum plan whenever they
may determine that the best interests
<lf the party require the same.
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
The following were selected as the
Executive Committee :
Milton Park, President.
W S. Morgan, Secretary.
G. B. Crowe. Treasurer,
Gunby, of Louisiana ; Peek, of Geor
gia : D-nnelly, of Minnesota; Stein
berger. of Kansas; Bateman, of Maine.
Populist Mass Meeting.
There will be a Po pulist mass-meet
ing held at the Cou r t House. Carters
ville, Ga , on November 27, 1897, at 11
o’clock, a, m., sharp Immediately
after transaction of business the meet
ing and public will be addressed on the
issues of the day by General William
Phillips of Marietta, Ga., Hon John I.
Fullwood, Polk Co., Ga., and other
able and eminent speakers.
The public are cordially invited to 1
attend.
By order of Executive Committee. 1
P. H. Lakey, See. I
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THE OTHER SIDE.
Mr. Carter Answers the Query is Popu
lism Socialism.
In your issue of .Nov 5 th, 1897, is an
article entitled, ‘‘ls Populism Social
ism, or Revolutionary Populism vs.
Revolutionary Socialism, by Miss Ida
B Woodworth.” in which she seeks to
bring to light the fa lacies'and weak
ness of Socialism and to hold high to
a reading and thinking peopie the
strong meat of Populism which is ".all
good, for in a multitude of thought
there is wisdom, But there is always
two sides to every question and while
Miss Woodworth has sought to bring
to light the weakness of socialism she
has totally ignored its strong points
and entirely disregarded some in sur
mountable truths which cannot be over
looked or pass without consideration.
Miss Woodworth has undertaken to
show the difference between socialism
and Populism and tries to make it ap
pear that there are two separate and
distinct features in the two while in
truth the principles of the two in a
measure are synonomous. We are a
Socialist first and a P< pulist when we
can’t get Socialism. Miss Woodsworth
asked the question, ‘Ts Populism Soci
alism ? ” We answer that it is in a mild
sense. Mr. Webster gives as definition
to the word Socialism, the theory of
complete reconstruc ion of society,
and equitable distribution of property
Now, what is meant by this ? Sim
ply this, that the old order of things
are to be changed and society put upon
an tqu ; table and just basis, that cor
poration greed, trust and combine are
no longer to ‘ plunder the people, but
that equal and exact justice is to be
shared by every citizen, that if a man
does not work neither shall he eat,
that every man, woman and child shall
have entire compensation for every
hour's labor rendered that no man or
set.of men shall enjoy privileges that
other men do not enjoy and that no
person shall reap where he has not
sown.
The evils we complain of are too nu
merous and too well understood by an
intelligent public to rehearse them
here, we all too well know the griev
ances of the American people and it is
needless for me to say that these are
the evils that Populism partially aims
to right and that Socialism wholly
aims to right, so Populism is but the
advance guard of Socialism, and to
talk of doing away with S ci a ism is to
■ alk of doing away with the g< ve-n
--ments and institutions of men, for
Socialism is but the co-operation of
mankind and to do away with co-oper
ation is to wipe out civilization, and
every being be a Robinson Crusoe and
live to himself.
The very public highways, the streets,
churches, schoo's and all institutions
that are owned by all of the people are
Socialistic and Socialism means to be
more Socialistic and let all of the peo
pie own all of the gifts of nature and
the means of production and distribu
tion. The Omaha platform declares
that the Government should own and
operate the Railroads and Telegraph
lines in the interest of the people. It
further declares that it is opposed to
aliens and corporations owning land
which should be held for actual settle
ment for the people. Now if it is
wrong for aliens and corporations to
land, why is it not wrong for indi
viduals to own land ? Why should we
forbid a monopoly on a large scale and
not forbid it on a small scale? If a
big evil is wrong is not a little evil
wrong ?
The Omaha platform declares that
the land is the common heritage of the
people and then in the next line grants
individuals the privilege of monopoliz
ing this common heritage. Why is not
the Omaha platform bold enough to
come out on the land question like it
does on the transportation question ?
B cause there is a motive, the People's
Party consist of the agricultural and
land holding classes and it would be
injurious for them to come out so bold.
Miss Woodworth says Socialism is not
practical. Then if not, why is she ad
vocating it in the sense that the Gov
ernment should own and operate the
means of intelligence and transporta
tion as declared for in the Omaha plat
form. If Socialism is impracticable
why has it not proven so where it is
now a living example ? Why is not
the post office system a failure ? Why
is not municipal ownership of light and
waterworks a failure ? Why is not
socialism a failure in countries
where it is actually in existence ?
Again Miss Woodworth decla-es that
Socialism is revolutionary and inti
mates that if Socialists were to come in
possession or control of affairs that
there would come a crisis in which
chaos would prevail, for savs she “So
cialists, like the Jesuit fathers in Peru
years ago, would vainly expect to make
a self-governing public out of barba
rous savage Indians. This is erro nous,
for Socialists do not aim to try to take
hold of the reins of srovernment before
there are Socialists enough to do it,
nay, any more so than the Populists
aim to take hold of the reins of govern
ment before th y come in possession of
them. Indeed this cannot be a Soc al
istic government until there are So
eialist enough to enact Socialistic laws
Again Miss Woodworth ask what would
we do with our men who are lazv and
not disposed to work for an honest
living. I will answer by asking what
do we do w.th them now. Socialism
does not propose to fore any one to
work, but if he will not work, he is
no more than the worthless fellow that
society has to contend with now and I
can’t see why that is any argument
against S >cial’sm.
Last of all I want to say that the
New Testament scriptures are an em
bodiment of Socialistic teachings and I
fu ly believe that wiien those Script
ures are an actual living example all
over the universe that we will have
Christ on earth and God’s will done on
earth as in Heaven.
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