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Barkworth's Populistic Letter

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Parent Issue
Day
26
Month
September
Year
1894
Copyright
Public Domain
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Tliere hus been mueli inquiry as to liavkworth's letter on which lie got the populist nomination. Mr. I'eters wrote him, asking liim ií lie would endorse the populist ticket and the Omaha platform, and for hts views on populist principies. The letter was read in reply to a ruiing that Barkworth has uut committed himsel! to the populists in writing. Mr. Peter.s elaimed he had, and Jwodueed the following, whk-h is the letter Mr. Baldwin wanted read at the e onven tin n : Jackson, Aug. l'7, '94. Geoiga A. Peters. Ksq.: My Dear Sir.- Your letter oí the 27th came duly to hand. I am Mire that no excuse need be offered for the writing. It is pertinent and evidently sincere. I shall be equa ly frank and sincere n reply. I have always been interested in sociar questions, and latterly have given much time to their consideration. I have not been slow to expresa myself as my miiid has reached conclusión, henee I need omly quote my own previous uttera.nces to deline my position. ïliis is fortúnate, as otherwise I should hesitate to take a position for the purpose indieated in your letter, as pre-election piedles a.re as easily Ignored as made. My advocacy of unlimiti-d coinage at the present ratio and the restoration of silver to the place it occupied pirior to 1873, a-s the money of ultímate redemption must be iresli In your niiiid as 1 especially stated my xisilion on that questiou in an view in the Evening News last spring. The feamc interview also stated my earnest belief in the pirojiriety of .a graduated income tax as an knmediate measure of relief, also that no turthei issue of bonds should be permitted in time of peace. I have many limes a.ssevted that the goverament credit which sustains the tóeue ol national banks had better be used to sustain íts own notes :nt Baye (in1 interesi to the people. It goes without sayiuü that all money should be a full legal tender ; any other proposition is an absurd anomaly. My position relative to gbvernment control of all mcans of bransportation and communication as -vell as all Industrial [orces is partially stated in the Interview before alluded to ; and will be round more fully set foitli in the paper read by me before the Michigan Political Scicnei' associatioB and publslied in the proceedings of that body, a copy of which I will send yon. I aan heartlly in favor oí immediate action looking to a result coverfag even more tlian your sup:.2;estions. I quite agree with you that these pi o]ios;iions are the logical outgrowtjh of the principies of democracy taught to Jefierson, applied by Madison, Jackson and the long line of statesmen vvhose inflaence overéame the monarchaal a ml ciass tendeiicies o! our oíd social system. The changed condltions largely resultlng trom the progrese of invention, but materlally infiuenced by improvident 4'iid sometimes corrupt legislation, need the vigorous application of these principies to restore the equilibrmm of tlie social torees. O.F course, since Peter's letter -was not publtehed, no one can determine the import of the last paragraph.

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Ann Arbor Courier