| Show FARMED ALLIANCE PLATFORM it is a fine platform the farmers alliance men stand on and if they push matters on that score they ought to make themselves known n the land by the presidential election in 1893 They taj first we demand the abolition of national banks we demand that the government shall establish sub treasuries or repositories depositories deposit ories in the several states in which to loan money to the people at a low rate of interest not to exceed 2 per cent annual on imperishable farm products and also upon real estate with proper limitations upon the quantity of land and amount of the medium be speedily increased to not less than 50 per capila second we demand that congress shall pass such laws as effectually prevent the dealing in futures on all agricultural and mechanical products oro ducts preserving a stringent system of procedure in trials such as shall secure the punishment of offenders and the imps ing of such penalties as shall secure the hobt perfect compliance with the law third we condemn the silver bill recently passed by congress and de mand in lieu thereof free and unlimited coinage of silver fourth e demand hie passage of laws prohibiting the alien ownership of landane lan dand that congress take pramot action to devise some plan to obtain all the lands now owned by aliens and foreign syndicates and that all lands now held by railroads and other cor po rations in excess of such as is actually used and needed by them be reclaimed by alie government and held for actual settlers only fifth believing in the doctrine of equal rights to all and special privileges to none we demand that our national legislation should be ao framed in the future as not to build up one industry at alie expense er we further demand a removal of the existing tariff from the necessities of life that the people of our land must leave we further demand a just and equal system of graduated tax on incomes we believe that the money of the coultry should be kept as much as possible in the hands of the people and hence we demand that nil national and state revenues be limited to necessary expenses of the government economically and honestly administer ed sixth wo demand the most rigid honest and just state and national government control and supervisor super vison of the means of public communication and transportation and if this control and supervision does not remove the abuses now existing e demand the government ownership of such means of communication muni cation and transportation |
