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Government Ownership Straight

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
January
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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The address goes on bo declare implacable hostility to interest beariug bonds and railway pooling and to demand, instead of the latter, action looking to govornment ownership of all the railways. It thcn proceeds: "The powor given congross by the eonstitution to 'próvido for the calling forth of the militia to execute the laws of the Union, to suppress insurrections, to repel invasions,' does not warrant the government in making use of the standing army in aiding monopolies in the oppression of the public and tlieir employés. When free men unsheath the sword it should be to strike for liberty, not for despotism, nor to uphold privileged monopolies in the oppression of the poor. "We ask the people to forget all past political differenecs and unite with us in the conimon purpose to rescue the government from the control of monopolists and concentrated wealth, to limit the powers of perpetuation by curtailing their privileges, and to secure the riglits of freo speech, a free press, and trial by jury - ail rules, regulations, and judicial dicta in derogation of either of which are arbitrary. unconstitutional, and not to be tolerated by a free people." It is recommended that a vvidely disseininated educational campaign be immediately organized and the allegationa regandiBg the Alabama elcction are notlced and the domand made that congrcss Investígate the matter. A committeo was authorized wliose duty it shail be to gather and print the testimony of fraud. This oommittee is as follows: J. C. Manning, Alabama, chairman; Henry D. Lluyd, Illinois; Lee Crandall, Alabama. At the closing sessiou General J. B. Woaver presented the above report. It was read in full, and without amendment or changö of any sort indorsod by the conference. In additiou to the address as given above the national committee adopted the resotions indorsing and urging the extensión of the industrial legions and providing methods for their closer alliance with the national. Also a resolution recommendïng thu establishment and issue under the dircction of the committee of a monthly Populist serial atihe Washington headquarters aud its distribution. Adjourned sine die.

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News