RISE OF THE PEOPLE'S PARTY.
A party cannot secure adherents suf
ficient to make it a factor in politics un
less there is an occasion or demand for
such a party. There must be some solid,
cogent reasons that will induce large
bodies of men to break away from par
ties with which they have for many years
affiliated and join in the formation of a
new party, in opposition thereto. Let
ub consider whether there was any justi
fixation for the formation of the People's
party, now the chief factor in the Union
party of Oregon.
The Peoples' party sprang from the
'organization known as the Farmers' Al
liance and Industrial Union. This was
a non-partisan society, having for its
purpose the study and discussion of all
questions relating to their mutual wel
fare. In studying the economical condi
tions of the country, they found they
had but little representation in the gov
ernment, and that agriculture was dis
criminated against, in favor of banking,
manufacturing and commercial interests.
In a petition, signed by five SuiivlicJ
thousand farmers, they stated their griev
ance, and presented it to the house of
the 61st congress, of which body Hon
William McKinley was chairman of the
ways and means committee. The peti
tioners asked relief through the "sub
treasury system," or legislation in that
line such & the wisdom of congress
might deem best. The sub-treasury was
a plea for a flexible system which would
expand the currency when more was
needed and shrink it when the demand
had passed away. A letter to Hon. Wm.
McKinley, chairman of the ways and
means committee of the house in the
61st congress, by C. W. Macune, chair
man of the legislative committee of the
Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union,
clearly and succintly set forth the abuse
which the sub-treasury system wus de
signed to correct. This abuse was that
there was but one billion dollars to do
the business of the whole country ; that
agriculture steps in during the last four
months in the year with about five bil
lion dollars' worth of products which
she offura for and must have money.
The billion dollars in the four months
must do an increased business of five
times its volume. This enables those
who have money to buy the products of
the farm during that season for but
little more money than it cost the farmer
to produce them. "No man can deny
that it is a systematic robliery of the
farmer to Imye a financial system estab
lished by luw that will contract so as to
depress prices at the season he is com
piled to soli the products of his labor."
This much is given in reference to the
sub-treasury plan to show that reason
and justice were in the petition ; that as
commerce and manufactures, the gov
ernment itself, are dependent on agri
culture for their being, this petition
should have received the most serious
attention of the financiers of congress.
Was it so considered? No. It was re
ferred to committee, thrown into waste
basket and no answer whatever given to
tho farmers. But the papers, subsidized
by the Money Power, turned loose their
batteries of abuse and ridicule "on tho
"huyseeders," sneered at their sub-trend-
ury plan ns class legislation, and told
them, in these exact words, to "go home,
Will' IlikI ... 1 ...
port of the prosecution. In case such
authority is used for other than legiti
mate purposes, the only redress the peo
ple have is by an action before the prop
er tribunals.
While such subpoenas may have been
issued by you legitimately, nevertheless
under the circumstances it may appear
otherwise.
Therefore, since you are again a candi
date for the same office, the undersigned,
members of the county court of Coob
county, Oregon, without partisan bias,
but conscientious in their belief that it
is their duty to the people of Coos county,
Oregon, request you to make a full ex
planation of said matter, and vindicate
i yourself from any suspicion which may
OPPOSE BONDS.
The order of the Knights of Labor has
sent a circular letter to every member
of congress denouncing the proposed in
crease of the interest-bearing debt, al
leging that sooner or later the debt must
be paid by the laboring man. They say
"the nation is not in danger ; we are not
fighting the world, but only a very small
and decrepit corner of it. If our navy
cannot protect our shores, the proceeds
of these bonds cannot build another in
time to save us."
Five hundred million dollars of coin
bonds, running twenty years, means the j TRef 'Xll "'oure0'8
transfer of three hundred million dollars j 8 a j HeSchboderCo. Judge.
ot property oi tne people to tno money jj. f. Koss,
I. T. Weekly,
Power without any consideration what
ever. If our government is not strong
enongh to lick Spain without the aid of
a pitiful lot of cowardly vampires in
Wall street, it should go out of busiuess.
Do these bloodsuckers make the ships,
guns and powder? Do they fight the
battles? If they did not exist, could the
United States build war-ships, make
guns uud puwuer, and whip Spaniards?
Why should the Money Power get a
rake-off of $300,000,000, drawn from the
toil of the people, out of this war?
J- Commissioners.
Republican speakers have the gall to
tell us that we now have good times and
that wages are high yes, higher than
under the double standard I Eight and
ten years ago laborers in this vicinity
were working in the quarries at from
two to three dollars per day, were dyking
tide lands, and working in sawmills and
logging camps at the same rate : gangs
of white men had regular work on the
railroad at $1.65 a day, and there was
plenty of work for all. Now, Japs have
taken the places of the white men, and
it is but rarely a man can get a chance to
earn one dollar per day. The man
who can get $15 a month thinks he
has a bonanza. Farms and town lots
will not sell for over one-third as much
as they would have sold for in 1898, but
the repeal of the mortgago tax law has
doubled taxes, and that is the sole evi
dence we have of McKinley-Geer pros
perity.
Mr. Porter, in the last census report,
tells us that each day's labor, in connec
tion with machinery, increased the
wealth of the country seven dollars per
day. In the same republican document
ws are shown that the average daily
wage of the laborer when he could
got work was ninety cents per day;
that is, for each sevon dollars earned by
the laborer taxation and owners of ma
chinery took six dollars and ten cents,
leaving ninety cents for the sustenance
of the laborer, Mollie and the children !
J ist think of it ! Why if the producers
o' tho land fully understood how greatly
they are being wronged by indirect tax
ation and the exactions of capital, they
would rise in their might and hurl the
traitorous scoundrels from the Tarneian
ruck, as did the country-loving Romans;
oi old.
A WORD FOR MR. LYMAN
From President of Philomath College.
Editor Corvallis Times : In renl v to in.
(jiiiries regarding the qualifications of
Direct legislation is a method of secur
ing reforms. It is also the only plan
which has yet been proposed that will
do away with corruption in politics.
THE UNION STATE PLATFORM.
"United in a common cause for the
sacred purpose oi preserving the princi
ples of government by the whole people,
in fact as well as in name, restoring and
maintaining equality, under that govern
ment, of all classes, we, the peoples
democratic and silver republican parties
of the state of Oregon, waiving all points
of difference, and unitine for the mirnose
of carrying out the great underlying
principles, and to the carrying out of
wliich we solemnly pledge each and ev
ery candidate upon our united ticket:
First We demand the free and un
limited coinage of silver and gold at the
present legal ratio of 16 to 1, without
waiting for the consent of foreign na
tions, and we are unalterably opposed to
the policy of the present republican ad
ministration in demanding the retire
ment of greenbacks, and the turning
over of the money-making power of the
government to the national banks, as
presented by the bill drawn by the re
publican secretary of the treasury, and
indorsed by President McKinley, and
we especially denounce the avowed at
tempt by said bill to fasten the country
irrevocably and forever to the single
gold standard.
We demand a national money, safe
and sound, istued bv the general govern
ment only, without the intervention of
banks of issue, to be a full legal tender
for all debts, public and private j also a
just, equitable and efficient means of
digi ribntion direct to the people through
the lawful disbursements of the govern-
We demand that the volum of circu
lating medium be speedly increased to
an amount sufficient to meet the de
mands of tha business and population of
iniH country ana to restore tne just level
of Prices of labor ftnfl nrnliinHnn
We favor sucn legislation as will pre
vent for the future the demonetization
of any kind of legal tender moiiev by
jMivuit- contract.
We demand that the uovernment. in
payment of its obligations, shall use its
option as to the kind of lawful money in
which they are to be paid, and we de
nounce the present and preceding ad
ministrations for surrendering tins op
ium iu uie noiaers oi government obit
gations.
We demand that there shall be no fur
ther issue of United States interest bear
ing bonds.
We demand that postal savings banks
be established by the government for the
onio ui-jiunii ui me savings oi trie people
and to facilitate exchange.
We demand the election nf ITniiort
States senators by direct vote of the peo-
We demand the Initiative and Refer
endum system of law making in its op
tional form, local, state and national ;
Prof. H. S. Lyman, Union candidate for ! and the submission by congress of all'
Mate .school (superintendent, I am per- j important national questions for an ad-
. .vvi.niiiid( mwi mill, uuving
economical, keeir ,'?en a?sociated with him in literary and
will be well " I VJu?atlon1 work for a number of years,
win ue well. le 18 an Oreiron bov. born at T)nili. i..
ui a iiarii.'r. Im morn
Dill of luiliti,... ..u
-- Humors, -.Ti. ue is u grauuaie oi rneinc Unl-
nmlnig that petitions were but as throw- versity, Oregon, and Oberlin College, O.
ing turf ut thieving bovs in the apple' Sinee m he nils dvoted his entire
tree, now detcmiinml t. !... J, i 1 tlme to tho educational interests of our
. .... m'",w! to tl,row nx''i8 I state, lie has an excellent reconl na
T, Z ZT" ' , i8df'!'- the pastaix years has I hi'&'
ilieywent home and (uj conjunction I ''J-"0 the popular school superintendent tion lawyers, too ready to do the will of
with tho Union Labor party) formed the iot FT?.?- , ... . , . t their late employers, and to set aside
IVlle'. party (now the Union party) ! i " K!1 he , val d andj wholesome laws passed by the
? '"eombi wf eneami I tex ai uffies SffiuTioT
UIO HUlYeSS Of whoun limn..!..!..., .1 - lllttrmiimtwitl lina n iun Kl. ...1.... lr' i. wv" "IOI.1I.UUUI1B.
, i" n'liTo iiuiiriuitf i , wiiii vtuumtuu ii e unj op
I success in an lus literary and educational j junction
i iiu i (m ifrs. ne is moiiesi ana
visory vote ot the people, until such
time as the national COnHtitntinn nVi.ill
have been amended so as to provide for
direct legislation.
We condemn as dangerons and unjust
the surrender, in all the departments of
the government, to the infmenc nf
trusts, corporations and aggregations of
wealth generally ; and the packing of the
CIDles ilinMin.
l... .l . -----,
me wivaiiou oi our country.
THE BANKERS' PETITION.
About the same time a convention of
bankers was held in Baltimore, and they
sent a delegation to Washington to ad
vocate their interests before congress.
We have before us a "rejiort of the com
mittee on banking and currency, togeth
er with hearings, on H. U. 8141," em.
bracing features proposal by the bank,
era. The pamphlet contains 370 large
closely printed pages. The congressional
committee sat day after day listening to
and questioning the bankers in relation
to bftnki,1K and currency through almost
al of this Iwk. How patient and con
siderate to the silk. tiled gentlemen!
Three hundred and seventy pages for
a few bankers not one word for 500,000
"Imyseed" farmers! Don't that look
like "a government of the bankers, by
the bankers, for the bankers."
e are opposed to government by in-
TOhrini,
in his disposition, but nntirino in hia
zeal for the upbuilding of our state.
His thorough classical training, com
bined with his extensive practical expe
rience in educational lines, will enable
him to give our department of public in
struction a dignity and efficiency that
will command the respect of all educa
tors. J. M. C. MILLER.
In state matters we dnmnnil
A simple and well guarded registration
appointing
A more enuitable mmln nf
judges of election.
Stringent laws to regulate the opera
tion of hsh traps, fish wheels and all
fishing gear in the waters within the jur
isdiction of the state.
Wo .!.... 1 5
.. o uruuuiiw mm i-onaemn tne cor
runt, unit DTtnivanani ... .1.1: i
OPEN LETTER TO G. M. BROWN, tivf assemblies and charge that the re
Republican Candidate for Dis't Att'v ' Pl"!!,can party, in its eagerness for the
' spoils of office, has become divided into
Coqi'ills City, Or. April 27, 1898. WttrnnK factions, to that it is incapable
To G. M. Brown, nominee for district of mnient, as exemplified by the
attorney for the second judicial dis- c?'V l on esl8tm? in . the of the
trill v.wvi , iiiizrc willtf HI tms tinift
ninM (tAx a k.ti t i i . .
lieor told his assembly that we have
$24 per capita In circulation $24 for ev
ery man, woman and child ! It would
in. saio to wager they had not $2, and
Dear Sir: You were the duly elected Porf than a half million of dollars there
of taxatii
Btaniped "Not paid for want of fnn.1. '
and actinir district attornev fnr n ln wrung from the people bv the
ond judicial district, state of Oregon, for 1 . at,ul?i while. 8tate warrants are
the term ending July 1, 1S1HI.
As such district attorney vou issued I ,2 PemFul that all district and coun-
Biuipoenas lor tno following witnesses to ' w.wmceu upon salaries com
appear before the grand jury at the Oo. ! menurate with the duties
u'uer i who j term ol tlie circuit court of lorl"eu oy tliem.
inasmuch as railroad and
to be per-
putting it in circulation.
uie Mine oi Oregon lor lxw countv. to- masmuen as railroad ami ml.-.
wit: Mrs. Clara Lewis, residence "near 1 Prate property is not beanim its nrZ
Bandon. Oregon, and Walter Patterson, ' Pwn of taxation, we demand tW
resident Roseburg, Oregon. These per- BlK'' property shall bear its iust r.wI
sons did not appear before said grand "a' "hare of the expenses of rove
jury, and there is no record statingcause ; nie't. govern
why they were not called to so amwr ! cno c r.
A good farm wagon, nearly new
good order. Coast mat. ai
that means iVi?'" ynhni!t,Hi th.ority to insne a good set of farm harne -..-n Tl
"""I" ut witnesses WU Mil the stain snlrl r . ' " uc
to appear More the grand jury In w? It, InlUire at
uhtv were no twt tw n tK...l
If tho money is in , XmiU h JS to !
count, and you cannot get it without ex- Section 1508 of the Code gives district la
changing value for it, and bv
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