Show The Heritage of Populism p DECENTLY a convention was ivas held at St. St St Louis LotuS n s by wn what was wa called caled A o of forty for eight This committee framed a platform and set in il motion the machinery for the organization of a n new p ty The ile main issues presented presented- pre arc aro government go ownership of railroads nationalization of oal coal mines mine and oil oi lands abolition of or the injunction in ill labor cases release of nil all nl of fancied political prisoners r oner and restoration ment of free fre speech This Tills platform recalls the populists of twenty eight twenty eight sears ears ago who held their first national convention at Omaha a and md nominated James B. B B Weaver Teaver for President imd Tom Yah Watson on for vice ce president president president- At M t that time populism populism pop pop- pop was Very cry popular and at the succeeding suc election n nT Weaver and Watson received a million votes ote T cr 1 The platform of the populists was constructed around two Uvo central that ideas i ideas that the the country was rapidly rapid rapid- I ly going to the dogs Jogs and that only government t OWners ownership ownership owner OWner- s ship ip ging of public utilities fiat money an and similar familiar remedies could coull save c a it Some of the old patent mc medicines prescribed cd by bT the physicians of that that day have hayo been ignored or forgotten by the new practitioners pra yet et the same quackery quack quack- cT ery by the same school school of political pretenders prevailed pre I at CI St. St St Louis which predominated at Omaha years ago ligo Senator Peffer with his bis luxuriant crop rop of whiskers in which time the cartoonists of that hat f day fairly fairl reveled Te Sock Sock- I less Jerr Jerry Simpson and other notables were absent abent from St. St St Louis yet et the they lived by r proxy and their thuir influence the committee of f fo ft was animate in time the meet meeting of the ty It l was perhaps ridicule ridicule- more than opposition that I killed the populists for their bouse house was built upon the time and when the storms came and the ruins rains descended it was wa wash washed cd away Today Today the fi committee of fOlt forty forty- eight is reinforced a by r a sinister and an cunning cunning propaganda propaganda ganda gauda masquerading in iu l the garb rb o. o of progress reform reform re re form and liberalism Jn in n this organization o arc are oil all al the specious and ana fallacious and ridiculous doc doctrines of populism augmented by Bolshevism I. I W. W corn roin- rom rom- and red radicalism It is the heritage heritage of rf lis usia Again int it is built buit upon the s sand md and again ain it will 1 be l c washed away |