Show GoA GO A LITTLE SLOW silver saw the only on tion on n which I patriot of america are united editor the national Bi 1 am glad that thai the great rank and file 1116 of the two old parties refuse to longer be rio nosed sed about by the leaders that are responsible for the awful conditions taken the initiative have that now prevail step to ally themselves with the party that has already declared itself on the question that SO BO vitally affects us all and called a representative meeting of the bimetallists of the nation to meet at st louis at the time of the convening of the peoples party in national convention that is astep a step in the right direction neither of the old parties will offer either in platform or as a candidate for the presidency anything thing looking toward the free and unlimited coinage of stiver silver at a ratio of 16 to V I 1 independent of any other government intern intervention antion if anch a thing should happen the Imo money power would defeat su such a party at the polls for they have the machinery and can do it but it if all the reform forces can and will unite at st louis upon a common platform with a presidential candidate who will stand upon the platform with both feet declaring for the free and unlimited coll coinage iago of sliver silver at a a ratio that it enjoyed prior to 1873 and then add the initiative the referendum and the imperative mandate planks such aparto a party could clotild and would ehe country electing a president and a majority of both I 1 houses of congress with such a plat form the issue between the lists and bimetallists would be squarely made and the populists lists and profit would in the end gain all they are now Ile demanding manding and the people would rule for it if any representative dared to be recreant to the trust reposed in bilm he would be called home and an honest man placed in congress who would do the will of the people with the initiative in jhb hands of the people prohibition would woula follow and the saloon that has been such an awful curse would be eliminated from the nation railroads telegraphs telephones and express companies would soon come under either government ownership or control and the land question equitably settled and not only that but tho the government would issue all the money and the people control it instead of its being issued by private corpor corporations alons and controlled i by them for their private inter esta as now how in that manner we would soon have an ideal republic as intended uy by our forefathers by and through the constitution instead of a plutocracy as now w exists there Is not a government on the face of the earth excepting possibly russia that Is worse governed than the united states and yet no n nation like ours has the semblance of being governed by the people it if the dear good people will now in this year lay aside their party prejudices and vote awhile tor for their own interests and all stand together as ad one man at the polls the difficulty can and will be soon settled yours for reform CHARLES HO HOWELLL our correspondent Is all right on an the tl mol nidea adea the necessity for united ac ai tion he makes make one mistake though that of expecting too much there are at least ten million voters in the united states who do not even know what the initiative the th a referendum and the imperative mean can as those terms are used in our politics where they are understood there are wide differences of opinion concerning concemi their merits Nat national lonal I 1 I 1 |