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Editor: Tom Watson

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In two handsome volumes, dark red cloth, gilt tops, price .00.

Illustrated with Portraits and Facsimiles. Cloth, 8vo, .25 net.

"If you want the best obtainable, most readable, most intelligent, most genuinely American study of this great character, read Watson's history of Napoleon."

Orders for the above books will be filled by TOM WATSON'S MAGAZINE, 121 West 42nd Street, New York City.

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TOM WATSON'S MAGAZINE ADVERTISER

How to Overthrow Plutocracy

Several million people in the United States are in substantial accord with the demands of the People's Party. A majority of all voters would welcome Government Ownership of Railroads and other public utilities. The recent great victory in Chicago for Municipal Ownership demonstrates this fact. What Chicago has done locally can be accomplished in the nation--and WILL be done as soon as the people overcome

Political Inertia

With many the voting habit becomes fixed after one or two elections. The ordinary man keeps on "voting 'er straight" long after he has discovered that his party's actions are out of joint with his own views. Party "regularity" commands the average man's support long after he KNOWS his party is headed wrong. Some really great men, even, have placed party "regularity" before principle.

A Great Light

on the correct principle of organization is to be found in that admirable work by George Gordon Hastings,

The First American King

A dashing romance, in which a scientist and a detective of today wake up seventy-five years later to find His Majesty, Imperial and Royal, William I, Emperor of the United States and King of the Empire State of New York, ruling the land, with the real power in the hands of half a dozen huge trusts. Automobiles have been replaced by pha?rmobiles; air-ships sail above the surface of the earth; there has been a successful war against Russia; a social revolution is brewing. The book is both an enthralling romance and a serious sociological study, which scourges unmercifully the society and politics of the present time, many of whose brightest stars reappear in the future under thinly disguised names. There are wit and humor and sarcasm galore--a stirring tale of adventure and a charming love story.

Hon. Thomas E. Watson says:

"I read 'The First American King,' and found it one of the most interesting books I ever opened. Mr. Hastings has not only presented a profound study of our social and economic conditions, but he has made the story one of fascination. It reminds me at times of Bellamy's 'Looking Backward,' but the story is told with so much more human interest, the situations themselves are so much more dramatic, that it impresses me very much more favorably than any book of that kind I have ever known."

Interesting as the story is as a romance and as a critical sociological study, one of its vitally important points is

How to Organize

This Is the Key-Note of Success

For fifteen years the People's Party, in season and out of season, has preached "Equal Rights to All, Special Privileges to None." It has persistently demanded that government shall attend to public matters, and that private business shall be conducted by individuals with the least possible interference--and absolutely no favoritism--by government. It has continually demanded public ownership and government operation of railroads and other public utilities. It has urged the initiative, referendum and the recall; a scientific money system; the abolition of monopoly in every form. Millions of voters--as the Chicago election clearly indicates--are in accord with the People's Party; but heretofore the voting habit, the "vote 'er straight" political insanity, has kept them in political slavery.

Educate the Boys

Let us train up a new generation of voters--without diminishing our efforts to break up old party habits--who will have the courage of conviction and correct ideas regarding politics and economics. Let us interest the mothers, so we can have the boys taught to cast their first votes on the side of Justice. Habit will then keep them voting right.

Let Us Begin Now

Mr. Hastings's book is a thought-provoker. It combines romance with sociology and teaches while entertaining. With "The First American King" and TOM WATSON'S MAGAZINE in another 100,000 homes, our first great step will be taken toward overcoming plutocracy. With this end in view, we have made arrangements whereby we can offer a dollar book, 350 pages, and a dollar magazine one year, 128 pages monthly, both for only .50.

Tom Watson's Magazine and The First American King .50

In order to treat all alike, the book will be sent postpaid to any present subscriber of TOM WATSON'S MAGAZINE on receipt of 60 cents. No person not a subscriber can buy "The First American King" of us for a cent less than .00. If you have not already subscribed for the magazine, send us .50 today for this attractive combination, and expedite the work of building up the People's Party of the future.

Address all orders to

TOM WATSON'S MAGAZINE, 121 West 42d Street, New York

Public Ownership of Public Utilities, including Railroads, Telegraphs, Telephones, etc.

Direct Legislation by the people: the Initiative, Referendum and Recall.

The election of all officers by the people.

Graduated Income Tax and Inheritance Tax.

National Currency created by the Government without the intervention of National Banks; every dollar to be the equal of every other dollar.

Postal Savings Banks; the eight-hour day, regulation of Child Labor in Factories, Sweat-shops and similar avocations.

Opposition to land monopoly.

Removal of Tariff burdens from the necessaries of life which the poor must have to live.

VOL. I JUNE, 1905 No. 4

BY THOMAS E. WATSON

The People's Party does not attempt the impossible, or seek the unattainable.

Our young men do not dream dreams; our old men do not see visions. We are wedded to practical reforms which have been tried in civilized communities, and which have vindicated themselves by results.

We do not propose to re-create society, subvert law and order, confiscate property, or substitute a new system of government for the old.

We do not want to tear down the house in order to repair it.

We do not hope to build a perfect state with imperfect human hands, but we do intend to make the government as nearly perfect as possible, to the end that it shall represent that conception of justice which deals with all men alike, and allows to every child of Adam a fair chance in the world which God created as a home for the human race.

The creation of a national currency has always been an attribute of sovereignty--of royalty.

In a system where the people rule the people succeed to the power of the king; and that attribute of sovereignty which the king exercised and did not delegate should be exercised by the people and should not be delegated.

Therefore, the Populists, successors to the old Greenbackers, have always clung to it as an article of faith that the Federal Government should exercise its constitutional right to create a currency, and should not delegate that power to national banks or to private citizens or corporations.

We believe that those things which are essentially public in their nature and their use should belong to the public, and should be equally enjoyed by all.

Just as the navigable rivers are public to the beggar and the millionaire alike, just as the Bay and the Gulf and the Harbor and the navigable Lakes are the common property of the rich and the poor, the high and low, the black and white, so we believe that the roads should be common ground upon which every citizen should be free to pass upon terms of equality, and that the iron highways of today, which were taken from the people by the exercise of the right of Eminent Domain, should be restored to the public by the same law of Eminent Domain, a fair compensation having been paid, and the property operated hereafter for the benefit of all the people.

So with the Telegraph and the Telephone and Express Companies.

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