Show Farmers Alliance Demands OCALA Fin Dec SEanly in the forenoon fore-noon session of the Farmers alliance the financial policy of the order came up for discussion under the report of the committee com-mittee on legislation It contained the following amended demands Abolition of the national banks and the establishment of subtreasuries in the several states to loan money direct to the people at a rate of interest in-terest not to exceed 2 percent per annum on nonperishable farm products and real estate with proper limitations upon the quantity of land and amount of money that the amount of circulating medium be speedily increased to not less than SfiO nor nanita Congress shall pass lawsto effectually prevent dealing in futures on all agricultural agricul-tural and mechanical productions preserving preserv-ing a ttringent system of procedure in trials to secure prompt conviction of offenders offen-ders and such penalties as shall secure the most perfect compliance with the law 3it condemns the silver bill recently passed and demands the free and unlimited coinage of silver Demands the passage of laws prohibiting pro-hibiting the alien ownership of land and that Congress take prompt action to devise some plan to obtain all lands owned by aliens and foreign syndicates and that all lands held by railroads and other corporations corpora-tions in excess of what is actually used and needed by them be reclaimed and held for actual settlers only Believing in the doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none we demand that our national legislation bo BO framed in the future as not to build up one industry at the expense of another We further demand the removal of the existing heavy tariff tax from the necessaries neces-saries of life that the poor of our land must have We further demand de-mand a just and equitable system of graduated tax on incomes We believe that the money of the country should be kept as much as possible in the hands of the people and we demand that all national na-tional and state revenues bo limited to the necessary ex juubco ui LUU UVULUUUUUL economically and honorably administered 6Wo demand the most rigid honest and just state and national control and su peovision of the means of public communication communi-cation and transportation and if this control con-trol does not remove the abuses now existing exist-ing we demand government ownership of uch means of communication and transportation trans-portation A spirited debate followed the introduction introduc-tion of this report |