HIUS 188 Chapter Article Notes: Populist Principles: The Omaha Platform, 1892
15 Feb 2018
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Hius 188 article notes populist principles: the omaha platform, 1892. Preamble: nation on verge of moral, political material ruion, corruption in government, people demoralized, public opinion and the press silenced, poverty, unionization for self-protection denied. Platform: union of labor forces forever, wealth belongs to those that create it. Interests of rural and civic laborers are the same, and their enemies the same: government ownership of railroads, either the people own the railroads, or the railroads own the people, civil service regulation in government. Finance: national currency issued only by the federal government, free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold. Income tax: state and national expenses need to be limited to necessity, postal savings banks for safe deposit of earnings. Transportation: government-owned and -operated railroads, telegraph and telephone should be owned and operated by government. Land, including natural resources, is for all of the people.
