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THE
REFORMER
I*cbi.i*hcd Every Friday EyWWo at
FORT GAINES, GA.
rORt OAIMER. <JA., JULY 27.1804.
POPULIST TICKET.
For Gotemot:
I. K. HINES.
For Secretary of Stale:
htL. A. L. NANCE.
For Treasurer:
(J. M. JONES.
For Gotnj troller (tenoral:
”
W. R. KKM1’.
/ For Attorney General:
J. A. B. M’HAFFY
For CotnmiMiioncr Agncultnre:
J. B. BAllUETT,
For Representative Glny County:
HON. It. M. BROWN.
MANHOOD vs. MONEY-
111 the lamb to hastening ills a prey,
Where width accumulates and men
Princes and lords inf.y flourish or may fad**;
A breath can make os a Inrath has made;
But a ■ dd voeiiu s rv, its country's lit! supplied. pride,
*Vbe» B iee dii,tr< V •*<! run never
Thus wroto Goldsmith more than
A century ago, both as a prophecy
and a warning of the fate which
awaited the policy of England. Today
that prophecy i« fulfilled, and the
stag and hounds course over tho
land obco burdened with tho ripen
iug fruits of holiest toil.
The fcame sontiment with a trifling
change of wording expresses con¬
cisely tho danger which threatens
the great common people of Amer¬
ica. It snould be remembered that
while it required four hundred years
for English plutocracy to
about this deplorable condition,
American prototypes liavo nearly
succeeded in a similar effort during
tho past quarter of a century.
Gradually under old business
methods but with unprecedented
rapidity since tho beginning of the
war between the St V., has tho
power ©C money to oppress undot
dishonest manipulation becoino ti
prime factor in every relation of life
and in all matters of national and
minor legislation. Now those pluto¬
cratic cojspirators who control tho
three great co-ordinate branches
goverumeti, trusting in their strength
aro determined to fully enslave the
j*coplo of this nation.
No one who has given tho subject
tho least consideration will deny that
the struggle is now on in this coun¬
try between manhood and money,
with tho entire civilized world anx¬
iously awaiting tho result. Hereto¬
fore for ages victory upon victory
lias followed tho onward march of
tho money changers. Nation
nation has succumbed to their sub¬
tle power, and peoplo after
have become captives and hold in
industrial slavery.
Ml eyes aro turnod toward
< ntrv and all hopes of
tivi dorr aro centered in tho outcome
bis conflict. While money
i * »rs all powerful and able to over¬
come all opposition, there is an
creasing number of noblo men
women whose honor and loyalty
far beyond tho reach of tho deaden¬
ing influence of gold, Tho
persistent work of education they
are pursuiug is making rapid
roads in the ranks of tho
of plutocracy.
Wo believe that havo hung so
and threatening above tho heads
Wo believe that the
clouds that havo hung so
and threatening above the
of American toilers are lifting, and
the gray of the early morning of
liverance is now visiblo to those
carefully scan the horizon,
fruits of a long aud tedious
tioual propaganda are fast
and a rich and bountiful
seems assured in the near future.
Intelligent manhood is
itself, aud every day briugs
strength and self-reliance. Tho
tle has well begun in the west,
being pushed in the south,
ewer the contest has boon
made manhood has triuniphod
money has gone down.
So it will ever bo until tho
common people of tho earth
lea rood the lesson and enforced
principles that all men wero
equal and havo the same right
life, liberty, and the pursuit of
piness. . .
J. U Ward was on the streets a
days ago with several pears—tho
fruit we have, seen this season,
the famous watermelon.
FROM TEXAS
Bhivk, Tcx., July 13, 1891,
Editor Clay County Reformer-.
I have received many letters from friends
in Clay county inquiring about this portion
of the Ijone HtAi State, and I take this op
portunity of replying through the columns
of your paper, if you will kindly publish it
for me.
This county (Hamilton,) is located in
what might bo called|Middle Western Texas,
and consist* principally of prairie, with
some timber in the northern and southern
edge of the county, The prairie
furnishes the major portion of the farm¬
ing land, About enc-third of this County
is good farming land, the balance is demo
ninnted grass land, only suitable for graz¬
ing purposes, and that very fact of having
two acres of gia*s land to raise stock on
where one is in cultivation, makes this one
of the most prosperous [outs of the State,
The farmers here all raise more or less
stock, and when the crops are short, they
always have a few steer yearlings, »r a dry
cow or two, a horse or mu U to sell to help
pay off accounts, and it is very seldom that
a merchant has to carry over any j art. of a
farmer’s account to another year. Crops
usually consist of whatever a man wishes to
plant—from ground peas to cotton. Cotton,
of course, is the principal money crop, and
1 am satisfied has not averaged under on**
third of a bale per acre, for the past six
yars. Another thing—your expenses of
from $2.50 to .f.VlH) per acre, for fertilizers,
is unknown here, aud if you talk to one
of thes farmers about fertilizers he would
not understand you; mention guano, and lie
might grasp your meaning; talk of phos¬
phates, tuid he mould think of something to
drink.
Com usually makes from 15 to 10 bushels
per acre, and whim cultivated in Georgia
style, ii never fails—that is, by giving
plenty of distance; but hero they usually
put rows about 3 1-2 feet apart, and in th<
drill from 18 to 21 inches, and from one to
throe stalks in a hill, and whenever a drouth
comes, their crop is injured or ruined.
The wheat crop was cut short this year by
the heavy freeze in winter, and dry weather
in the early spring, but has averaged from
10 to 20 bushels per aere in this neighbor¬
hood, (kits about 40 bushels per acre. The
crop J judge, is about the same the county
over.
Jleallh is geoil, nml doctors aro useless
here, except in cases of obstetrics.
Thore is a great deal of land bMngllir* * \v n
on tho market, to be divided to suit pur
chasers—cut, up into farms. The sheet ) men
nearly all own large tracts of land, and they
are goiiif* out ot the business on account of
'ow prices of wool (which ls soiling at from
A to S cents per pound, thanks of the Devil
is *!ue the democratic party; he can get it
cheap to wtum ‘.hem with, and they
can get it cheap to pull over tho eyes of the
people,) and a great deal of their land is be¬
ing offered for sale, on the purchaser’s own
terms and time A great deal of tin- unim¬
proved land can be bought entirely on time.
Ail that i-* required, is for him to to imp rove
and and put it in cultivation, Raw land
sells at fivsn .« to . pci* »a.;v; iuipiuvvn
land from $5 to $15 pci acre, There is very
littlo excuse for any one being without a
home in this country. This is not all —but
this letter is already too long
In conclusion, lot me congratulate Tho
Reformer that it is not ‘ weakly,” and is
the brightest, and newsiest paper that has
come to me from Fort Gaines since Tom
Jomigati used to handle those copper col¬
ored sons of Ham with gloves olT The Re¬
former should be patronized by both adver
Users and subscribers. As to politics, it is
after my own heart. Mother wrote mo .some
some time ago that I was just like < Yapps.
I do not know the gentleman, but I pre
sumo we are brothers by affinity, both doing
our just duty, as we see it.
L. Paulun.
POPULIST PROPHECY IN 1893.
Wo venture to predict that the fu¬
ture of President Cleveland’s admin¬
istration will contain many surprises
and disappointments during the next
two years. Theie will bo no legisla¬
tion friendly to silver.
Thore will bo no legislation un
friendly to the protected industries.
There will be an issue of interest
bearing bonds. No income tax law
will bo passed.
There will be an attempt made to
retire the greenback currency.
Tho tax on stato banks will not
be repealed. Silver will be demone¬
tized as money, and made subsidary
coin.
The national banks will issuo bills
to the par value of tho bonds,
i ;Tho Pacific railroad indebtedness
will bo extended fifty years.
Upon this record the Democratic
party will go to tho people and be
badly routed. Tho Peoples’ party
will havo a majority in the next Con¬
gress, and elect a president in 1896.
Outlaws Seeking Legal Protection.
‘•Every United request of the railroads
fer tho States deputy mar
shals to protect their property is
granted ual inquiry without eveu the most cas
whether special protec¬
tion is desirable or necessary. While
the country has to foot the bills for
these Federal janissaries, and their
bills are always extravagantly high,
no sorious objection could be" raised
to this costly method of protecting
railway property, were it not for tho
constant defiance of the Federal
statutes by regulating intcr-State com
mere© the railway-managers.
“Those who want lo invoke the
law and tho power of the govern¬
ment for their own protection should
be willing at all times to set an ex¬
ample of obedience to law and sub¬
mission to the regulations estab¬
lished by law for their government.
The trouble with the railroads is
that they' everybody aro always outlaws, but
want else, including pa¬
trons, employees and tho public at
large, to be submissive to such laws
as hapnen to favor or proto :t their
interest,”—Omaha Bee.
HOW IS THIS?
Tho was onee a business man in a
certain town, who was considered an
honest, Christian gentleman, made a
contract with a certain farmer to
loan him $100 dollars to run from
March until October, at fifteen dol¬
lars iuterest on amount borrowed.
Tho farmer who borrowed the
money, while in conversation with
tho business man, said he was going ,f
to , support ihe Peoples party , candi
Jutes. Then Mr. Merchant began
to reason with tho farmer, which
was was all an u ri'dit 0 nr, but out auer after the u e merchant muiuiai i
saw that hts arguement had been to
no avail, he then , remarked , . to the .
farmer, "when yon were in a tight
this spring vou came to me and I
befriendeJ you, ami I tell you
if you vote that ticket I will close
down on you.”
Now, that is all wrong; the mer¬
chant showed tho same spirit of
Chicago strikers. lie simply showed
the amount of devil that ho had
aboard; and for the sake of carrying
out what he believes to be right, will
do something that ho knows to bo
wrong. Mr Merchant, remember
when you bow before tho altar and
pray “Our Father Who at in heaven,
hollowed be Thy name, forgive our
trespasses as wo for givo those who
trespass against us” that when you
get to this point, you stand a con¬
demned man before God Almighty !
Your business relations with the
farmer have nothing to do with po¬
litical views. You say you befrienti¬
the farmer. Did not the farmer pay
you for your friendship by giving
you $13 interest, and be gets noth¬
ing out of the transaction but a fore¬
closure of the moitgage, which adds
more cost: if you do what you say
you will.
HYPOCRISY.
(iold continues to go out and tho
so-caHod reserve in the treasury has
reached the point at which bonds
wore issued last winter. The dismay
followed by letters, telegrams, and
delegations from boards of trade de¬
manding an immediate strengthening
ot the “reserve,” for some reason,
does not enter in to the present situ¬
ation.
In fact, the treasury department,
the Wall street gamblers, and the
subsidized press all look with appar¬
ent complaisanco upon tho situation,
ami seem to ignore at tho
time a condition which less than
eight months ago nearly drove them
to distraction, This is ueither
change of sentiment nor
but positive proof of the hypocrisy
and deception which actuated the
money owners and their friends in
the administration and congress.
Tho final destruction of silver
money the object thon, which, in or¬
der to appear consistent, had to
followed by an issue of bonds. Now,
that silver has been destroyed
is no further excuse for this
alarm, hence tho apathy which
vails. It’ tho people will not learn
lesson from this they are dull
deed. If 40-cent wheat, 6-cent
ton, and II cent wool, together
the plain hypocrisy which
all financial legislation, will not open
tne eyes of the producers of
country, they deserve to be
everyone of them.
TOM REED ON THE WILSON
“1 take it for granted Mr. Speaker,
the gentleman to whom the letter was
dressed to which wo have just listened, has
observed til the proprieties which
men ordiuairiiy observe with regard to
correspondence, and that a letter which
marked ’personal' haviug been addressed
him, he has not been guilty in any way
making it publie in this fashion without
express consent of the author.
• Hence we have here today the
remarkable spectacle of a message sent
tne President of tho United States tw
house of representative through his
committee on ways and means. This
to be a just reciprocal action on his part;
the house will recollect that the
on ways and means communicated to
house its intention of having an income
through the kindness of the President
the United States. (Applause on the
publican side.)
“Whether this relationship thus intimate
between a committee of this house and
president of the United (States
plated by the constitution of the United
States or not, is hardly worth the trouble
inquiry in the shape in which the
now stands before the house. Least of ail,
would anybody on this sido find fault with
the severe language which the president—
tho democratic president—has seen fit
use about a democratic senate
and applause on the republican side.)
“Undoubtedly his personal intercourse
with the members of tliat body and his offi
rial relations with them have enabled him
*° E ut in al1 his strength of a reproof which
that letter contains. But the transaction
ns it stands today, is between them and
him. Far oc it for us to interfere. If he
had made a righteous charge their char¬
acters are blackened; and if he has made a
false charge it is for them to see that jus¬
tice is done to the truth of history. (Ap¬
plause on the republican side.) We have no
concern with it except as spectators. "
The Democratic Executive Commit¬
tee of Clay county is requested to meet
at 10 o'clock at the conrthouse on July
31st, 1894, J, R, Irwin, Chr’m.
STATE PLATFORM
Of the Peoples’ Party—Read and
Reflect.
\\ o hereby renew our unqualified
endorsement of the national platform
of in the Peoples’ Georgia party, and wo favor
,ha State of the following
retotin.
L T J\ e abolition of ^ Present
convict , lease which
gre*ed system prosti
tutes to tho of private Vightto avarice
the State’s sovereign pumsh
her citizens ror violation of law. \Y e
bebeve lllf * State herself should keep
•*,..! 1 should .
employ them upon the public roads
and llot a i| ow them brought i in com
pernio,, with honest free labor.
*' tavor the furnishing of _
— e pn
plo books. by the \\ frequent e also favor changes the payment of
of the teachers monthly.
3. Wo favor the enactment of an
unperverted Australian ballot Jaw to
be so framed as to allow illiterate
blind voters to receive aid in the
they preparation of their ballots, when
election. so desire, from the mauagers of
4. We emphatically condemn
practice, of late becoming so preva¬
lent, of public officers accepting free
passes from railroad corporations.
We intend this condemnation to ap¬
ply to the executive, legislative and
judicial branches of our national ami
state government.
5. Do ieving, as wo do, that these
eternal principles are necessary to
good government and to the preset 1 -
ration of onr republican
and, believing that a supreme neees
sitv now exists for a determined and
organized struggle against tho
rupt despotism of centralized
we this hereby pledge ourselver anew to
sacred task, and we invite the
earnest co-operation of all good citi¬
zens, these irrespective of party; and upon
united efforts in behalf of th i
causo of constitutional liberty
reverently invoke tho blessings of
Almighty God.
C. II. Ellington,
Chairman P.atforni Committee.
CLEVELAND A HERMIT.
The Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Times says:
‘•No hem it ever kept more rigidly or re
ligiously to himself than does Mr. Clove
land now, To the people of Washington
Mr. Cleveland is but a name. They never
• *
.. him, they . hardly of his existence;
see mow
never Is he Seen upon tho street. When he
goes out foi a drive it is in a coupe, with
the windows tightly closed, and then ho
takes his course through the'parts of
city where no one will see him, He did
come out of his seclusion long enough to at¬
tend the funeral ceremonies of President
Carnot, but that was (lie first glimpse that
Washington has caught of him for weeks
and months.
“Mr, Cleveland never goes out to church.
lie has a pew where he can listen to the
preaching of Dr. Sunderland the aged min¬
ister who performed the marriage ceremony
in tne White House parlors. But unless Mrs.
Cleveland attends divine worship this pew
is always empty. Employees at the
House, who have had their positions for
years, say that never in their
have there been so few callers and so few
people who really wish to see the president.
“During his former administration lie was
accustomed to have admiring friend s of
party . rush , to , the .. \\ lute tt House m • squads. •.
perfectly content if they only exchanged a
word of greeting to the leader of their party.
But im-..- whole days go bv without a caller
making a repuest to see him. Even his
inet seem to shun the Whito House. He
chummy with only 2 members of it.
and Bissell, and the friendship is the
of old association and past memories
than anything else. He secs no one in
office and he will not go out to see
He refuses invitations of every
and shuns publicity in every form.
HE DID SAY IT.
The Jonesboro News speaks as
lows:
The report we made last week of Mr.
Atkinson’s speech has caused much
citement all over the State, as we
received letters from prominent men in
regard to it. Some say we
him and that he meant “social
If he meant that, why did he not say
We sat upon a table directly in front
him and believe we heard every word he
said, and if he did not used the follow¬
lish, ing language we do not understand Eng¬
and there several of our best citi¬
zens who will give affidavits if necessary
that he did use such language. We
quote him as near as we can:
“I had rather see our fair land be
seiged with the most malignant type
yellow fever, cholera, smallpox or any
other terrible disease, than to see
populist party in power.” Some
construe this to mean something else.
W. T. R. Mann is quoted in
Bluftton News as saying that ft hen be¬
longing to Mis. W. O. Beard which ’
posited to eggs in one day, was a dem*.
cratio hen. I deny this. She xs
dently a Peoples’ party hen—in favor
the free and unlinlted coinage of legal
tender—as eggs havo become a legal
tender in this section. If a customer
owes the merchant a dime and offers
him a dozen eggs and he refuses to ac¬
cept them as pay, he seldom ever gets
his pay. Another evidence that she is
not a democratic hen, is, that those eggs
were genuine, and not mere shells. She
is opposed to the single gold standard.
Pop.
CHAMBERS A TENNILLE
Are prepared to do all kinds of Car¬
riage Wagon, Harness and General Black
Smith work. Anyone having anything
in this line to be done, will find it to
their interest to give them a trial. Shop
near the calaboose.
Subscribe for The Kfforhb.
ANNOUNCEMENTS.
V*E are authorized to announce J* B.
t t gia Bussey's as subject a candidate for the Geor¬
Senate, to tlie-action of the
party, of Eleventh District.
For Tax Collector.
Thanking mv friends for past support and
bp myself faithful before in the you future with a in guarantee the past,
»* as
ask the support of the voters of mv
W. E. HARRISON. '
1 , , hereby announce myself for Tax Col
,
with people the of position. Clay county I will see discharge fit to honor the
me
duties of said office to the best IIAISTEn/ of mv-ability.
H d.
For Tax Assessor.
j w.by Clav ammonce mys.lt re-elected, lov T« W
sor of comity, aud if prom
TS,1 Z
*°
T, R. DAVIS.
MELON CARDS.
GEO. E. MARKS, JOS. RITTINER.
——
MARKS .V ltlTTIKEit,
COMMISSION . . . .
• • (MERCHANTS,
Whosale Fruits & Produce,
r>3 Poydras Street, NEW ORLEANS, LA.
References:
Metropolis Whitney Nat'l Bank of New Orleans, La.
an Bank of New Orleans, La.
vilh! 1 Mi'ck CUurCh & C °’* Bi,1,kers ' Urecn '
N.' W. Mather, Banker, Howard Citv,
Mich.
bradstreefs Mercantile Agency,
—
EDVt ARI) BE1LSTEIX
(Successor to Beilstein & Spangler,)
WHOLESALE PRODUCE
C o m ill i s s i o n Merchant,
631 Liberty St. Pittsburg, Pa.
PHYSICIANS.
D. F. GUNN,
PR ACT ICING P R YSICIA N,
jHT Offlce next to Wallerstein’s.
DR. J. M. HATCHETT.
Practicing Physician and Druu( »s -,
I'OK , T GAINES, --y G A.
Also nice line Stalioney. School Looks
l !‘^ ° iis ’ Varnishes and Perfumery
All cut. Prescriptions _ fine
sizes glasses
day or night with accuracy and disjxdch.
W. S3 L. Douglas
SHOE NO 13 SQUEAKING. THE BEST.
And other specialties for
Gentlemen, Ladies, Hoys
m and Misses are tho
Best in the World.
See descriptive advertise¬
ment which appears la this
h paper.
AM I Take no Substitute.
Insist on having W. I,.
. DOIGLAS’ SHOES,
pt with name and price
->. v. ' *■* stamped on bottom. Sold by
A. M. WALLERSTEIN.
Rule Nisi.
Maud It. Simpson, vs Clav Superior Court,
H. B. Wash. March Term 1894.
Present, the Honorable James Griggs,
judee ot said court.
It appearing to the court bv the petition
of MamlR. Simpson that on the 17th ■ ay of
June, in the year of our Lord 18RI, II. B.
Wash of said county, made and delivered to
Maud R Simpson to secure the payment of
j 1(?r of mortgage, whereby he conveyed 362.
to her lots of land Nos. 352.353, and
117 1-2 acres of lot 163; all being in 7th Dis
trict of Clay county containing 725 acres,
more or less, conditioned that if said H. B.
Wash should pay off and discharge said
mortgage according to its tenor and effect,
that then said deed of mortgage and said
note should be void. And it further ap¬
pearing that said note and mortgage re¬
main unpaid: It is further ordered, that
said II. B. Wash pay into this court by the
first day of (he next term thereof, the prin¬
cipal. interest, attorney’s fees and cost due
on said Maud K. Simpson or show cause to
the contnity, if there be any; and that on
failure of said H. Bi Wash so to do. the
tquity of redemption in and to said mort¬
gaged premises be forever thereafter barred
and foreclosed.
Ii. E. Kennon, Petitioners Attorney.
J, M. Griggs Judge S. C. P. C.
GEORGIA—Clay County.—I, J. W. But
live, Clerk of Superior Court in and for said
state and county, hereby certify that, the
above aud foregoing is a true and correct
copy of the "Rule Nisi granted at March
term 1894, ot said court in case of Maud R.
Simpson vs. II. B. Wash. This May 23rd.
1894. J. W. SUTLIVE, C. S. C.
TYBEE RAILROAD.
We beg to .J iso that the Savanngli &
Atlantic R. R. (better known as the Ty
bee R. R, ), running from bavannah to
Tybee, Ga., which was damaged by
sT rm last August, is being repaired, and
wilt in operation in time to handle
t he :sual Summer business as hereto
fore. Contract calls for the ruuning of
rains over that road on the 1st of May.
The summer schedules will be put in
operation as soon as possible, due notice
of which will be given.
Conecctions are requested jdaced to prepare sale
round trip tickets to be on
as in previous F. years. J. C. Haile,
W. Shellmak,
Traffic Man’g’r, G. P. A
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ADOPTED BY THE OMAHA CONFEKHNCE OP l.AltOKlMi
PEOPLE, JULY 4, I8i)3.
conditions which surround us best justify our co-operation We meet in the
,, f SomIIinti
runt1on r, , Sht t l i e Vt>rK0 ° f ,nom1 ' PoHtloal and material ruin. Cof
the ermine miil of h?h*m/h t « ' | T n he people * box J tlu> are lo 8 demoralized. 1filHturo& ’ the congress, Most of and the touches States have even
t>oon ro bShlre r ,! - S? ; t0 11)0 vot «® ai Iht> polling places to prevent universal Intim
id it ion m- 4n "^ v$PaP T al '° larg0,y subsidized muzzled, public opinion
sill need be iut'f - d or
idiwl h ' °" r homos covered with mortgages, labor hnpovwS
neif’are nrn do do^r, d. d tf . oon ng .°®“ tra ° ; in ? R Vga 1,1 ,V i?ation hands fop of sell-protection: the capitalists. Imported The urban pauperized work
labor beats Yi le' o'’ H hireling standing aimy, unrecognized by laws,
is onndit\o»ic -ii Am l th , down our
ti 1 hoof o J ,n i - ftml they »» rapidly degenerating into European
fortunes the toil of millions are bohHy stolen to build up colossal
fm ' ! l 't ,,, ' t ‘edentod in the history of mankind! and the
ti es - ~ n .'ovunTrai Him ri , ubl,c U!l1 ^danger possessors of
mode* r< ;F : liberty. From the same prolific
aii\i © * c t injustice we breed tne two great classes—tramps and million
The national
vast public debt
bonds, thereby adding million* to the burdens of the people. 2
J 1 -^I^OLS ARRAIGNED.—Silver, which lms been accepted as coin
since „ U ^; ;V has demonetized to add to the purchasing of
imld i, 1 ' of property, well human power
th.. mmnu, ......----- - ^ as as labor, and
... I" ‘A \ . r ! IU0 UStry °y | . s purposedly -C bridged to fatten usurers, bankrupt enterprises
' \ a t it co, 18 P imc J' «8»i“8t mankind has boon organized o . two
> lit oneS ne, ii « d ls - ' «*Pi«lly u taking . possession of the World. If not met and
establishment^f^nn at f v th dostruCtiou overthrown
° ° f civi,liiatio11 ’
ic-d ih-SSr r'irt?JS'fn, io lP™ WitnC88ed er a ”d ;° plunder, r , rao J , ° tlmn while a grievous centui T I be: struggles have of boon tho two inflicted great pollt
.lcpiople. i Wocharge that tho wrongs upon
V ? E tt d the controlling influences dominating both these par
♦ l '” ,,, restrain e tliem. existing dreadful conditions to develop without serious effort
. <H ^' Neither do they
r * 1( y luvo agreed togethei ignore in now promise us any substantial re
' rpi to the coining campaign every issuo but
oiu; ci ham battle .* *‘WV . propose the to drown Dio outcrios of plundered peoplo with tho uproar of a
. over tariff, so that capitalists, corporations, national bunks, rings
uustb. watered stock, the demonetization of silver and the oppressions of tho usurers
may be all be lost sight of. f J hey propose to sacrifice our homes, wives and children
fro lu.. V^ 1011 ’ to d(J8tl ' 0y U le multitude in order to secure corruption lundb
m t Hi on air
on the anniversary of the birthday of tho nation, and filled with tho
spirit or the grand generation who established our independence, we seek to restore
it'origiiiafed 0Uti ° f 11C republic to lho hauds of “ t ho l ,laia people,” with which c'ass
of <I the V national l IK .) VA J l constitution—“To rs OVER.—We assort iorm our purposes perfect to be union, identical establish with the purposes
a more justice, in
sure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general wel
are and secure the blessings of liberty for ourselves and our posterity.” We declare
], the -•'(’public whole people for can each only other endure and as for a free the government nation; that while built upon tho love of
it cannot be pinned together
t»> Duyonels; that tlie civil war is over, and that every passion and resentment which
gievi out of it must die with it, and that we must bo In fact, us wo are in name,
united brotherhood of freemen. one
Our country finds itself confronted by conditions for which there is no precedent in
tho history of the world—our annual agricultural productions amount to billions of
? 111 V! i up ’ vv}l »ch must within a few weeks or months be exchanged for billions
°* * ( 11 ‘Ol.ais of commodities comsumcd in their production; the existing
ply is wholly inadequate to make this exchange; tho results falling currency sup¬
• it ion ot combines and rings arid the impoverishment tho aro prices, the for
pledge ourselves of producing classes. Wo
that if given power wo will labor to correct these evils by wise and
reasonable legislation in accordance with the terms of our platform.
believe that the powers of the government—in other words, of tho peoplo—
shou.d be expanded (as in tho case of the postal Service) as rapidly and as far as
tne good sense of an intelligent peoplo and tho teachings of experience shall justify,
to tho end that oppression, injustice and poverty shall eventually cease in the land,
THREE! OLD DECLARATION.—While our sympathies as a party of reform
arc naturally upon the side of every proposition which will tend to make men intelli¬
gent. virtuous and temperate, we nevertheless regard these questions, important as
they are, as secondary to tho great Issues now pi easing for solution, and upon which
not only our individual prosperity but the very existence of free institutions depend;
and we ask all men first help us to determine whether wo aro to have a republic to
administer before wo differ as to the conditions upon which it is to bo administered,
believing that the forces of reform this day organized-will never cease to move for¬
ward until every wrong is remedied and equal rights and equal privileges securely
established for all the men and women of the country. We declare therefore:
1. 1 hat the union of t he labor for es of the United Btatea this day consumatcd,
shall be permanent and perpetual. ' its spirit enter into all hearts for the salva¬
tion of the republic and tho uplifting of mankind.
3. Wealth belongs to him who creates it, nml every dollar taken from industry
without an equivolont is robbery. -‘If any will not work, neither shall he oat.” The
interests of rural and civic labor aro the same; their enemies aro identical.
3. We believe that the time has como when tho railroad corporations will either
own the peoplo or the people must own them, and should tho government enter upon
the work of owning and contioiling any or all railroads we should favor an amend,
nient to the constitution by which all persons engaged in tho government servico
shall be placed under a civil servico regulation of the most rigid character, so as to
prevent the increase of the power of national administration by tho use of such addi¬
tional government employes.
The Planks of the Platform.
L We demand a national currency, safe, sound, and tlexiblo, issued by tho gen¬
eral government only, a full legal tender for all debts, public and private, and that
without the use of banking corporations; a just, equitable and efficient means of dis¬
tribution. direct to the people, at a tax not exceeding 2 percent., bo provided, as set
forth in the’subtreasury plan of the Fanners’ Alliance, or some bettor system; also by
payments ^1° in discharge of its obligations for public improvements,
ld't C * emant * 100 anc * ualim i te d coinage of silver and gold at tho presont ratio
f
b. We demand that the amount of circulating medium bo speedily increased to
not less than $50 capita.
c. We demand a graduated income tax.
d. Wo believe the money of the country should bo kept as ranch as possible in
the hands of the people, and hence wo demand that all State and national revenue
shall be limited to the necessary expanses of the government, economically and
honestly administered.
c. We demand that postal savings banks be established by tho government for
safe deposit of the earnings of tho peoplo aud to facilitate exchange.
2. Transportation being a means of change and a public necessity, tho govern¬
ment should own and operate the railroads in the interest of the people.
a. The telegraph and telephone, like the posloffice system, being a necessity tor
the transportation of news should be owned and operated by tho government in the
interest of tho people.
3. The land, including all the national resources of wealth, is the heritage of all
the people, and should not be monopolized for speculative purposes, and alien own
ership of land should be prohibited. All land now held by railroads and other cor
porations in excess of their actual needs, and all lands now owned by aliens, should
be reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only.
SUPPLEMENT TO THE PLATFORM.—Whereas other questions havo been
presented for our consideration, we-hereby submit the following, not as a part of the
platform of the Peoples’ party, but as resolutions expressive ot the sentiment of this
convention:
1. Resolved, That we demand a free ballot 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 uriperverted Australian or secret ballot
system.
2. Resolved, That tho revenue derived from a graduated income tax should be
applied to a reduction of the burden of taxation now resting upon the domestic indufu
tries of the country.
3. Resolved, That wc pledge our support to fair and liberal pensions to ex-Union
soldiers and sailors.
4. Resolved, That we condemn the fallacy ot protecting American labor under
the present system, which opens our ports to the pauper and criminal classes of tho
world, and crowds out our wage earners; and wo denounce tho present ineffective
laws against contract labor, and demand the further restri3tion of undesirablo immi¬
gration.
5. Resolved, That wc cordially sympathize with the efforts of organized workings
eight-hour men to shorten law the hours government of labor work, arid demand and ask a that rigid pouulty enforcement clause of bo tho added existing
on a to tho
said law.
0. Resolved, That we regard the maintenance of a largo standing army ot merce¬
naries. known as the Pinkerton system as a menace to our liberties, and wo demand
its abolition; and we condemn the recent invasion of the territory of Wyoming by
the hierc-d assassins of plutocracy’, assiated by Federal official's.
7. Resolved, That we commend to the favorable consideration of the peoplo and
the reform press the legislative system known as the initiative and referendum.
8. Resolved, That we favor a constitutional provision limiting the office of Pros-*
ident and Vice-President to one term, and providing for tho election of Senators of
the United States by a direct vote of the people.
9. Resolved, That we oppose any sudsidy or national aid to any private corpora¬
tion for any purpose.
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