Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-02-14
Frhe HeraId's Political Platform.

following among other reform meas
ures:
1. Prohibition Of the liquor traffic,
2. Universal suffrage without re-
gard to sex or color.
8. Opposition to monopoIies, trusts
and other combinations which have
for their object the "cornering'' Of the
commodities Of the country.
4 Opposition to gambling institu-
tions known as boards Of trade in
cities, that raise and lower the prices
Of goods contrary to the law Of sup
ply and demand.
5. First, enactment Of laws prOhib-
ting the ownership Of land by aliens,
and finally the limiting Of the amount
Of real estate which any one individ-
uaI could own.
6. A law requiring individuals to
pay taxes in proportion to their net
income.
Z. The modification of the national
banking system by which their power
to issue notes as currency shall be
abolished-and the substitution Of
legal tender greenbacks in lien Of the
national bank bills.
s. The adoption of a financial poll
cy that will keep constantly in circu-
latiOn a sufficient volume of currency
as the business of the country may re-
quire, which amount shall never be
less than $4,000 per capita.
8. The free and unlimited coinage
of silver with no more restrictions
than are placed on the coinage OF
gold.
10. The passage of laws making it
a felony for the managers of any cor
poration to 'water" the stock of such
association,
| II. The owning and operating OF
all railway, express and telegraph
lines by the government as soon as it
is practicable.
-. The revision of the tariff laws
so that the burden will bear most
heavily on whiskey, tobacco and the
luxuries, and the lightest on the neces-
saries Of life, at the same time doing
justice to all classes
10, The enactment of a law in Kan
J sas, and IN every state in the Union
giving the mOrtgagor at least two
| years time in which to redeem his
land after sale under the mortgage.
Il The encouragement of farmers
and all others engaged in industrial,
( pursuits. to organize in alliances
lodges. or other fraternal unions
where they may discuss their inter
ests and lntelligently act as one har
monious, united body in demanding
| the repeal OF laws detrimental to theil
| interests and the enactment Of sucl
statutes as are equitable and right
And finally, believing in the unlImit
ed progress of the race Of mankind
and that man, comparatively speak
| ing, is still in his tOddIing infancy
and government far from what i
ought to be, and that there is a gold
en- age in the future in which justice
will reign supreme, and the money
god" will not be wOrshiped as now
and greed will give place to philan
throphy, and the few crafty, selfish
men will be prevented from piling ~
colossal mountains of wealth, anC
possessing themselves, through in
iquitious laws, of vast portions Of tn,
earth's surface, while the weaker one
are crowded into poverty, degrade
ton and crlme-a time when the saw
age, heartless, selfish, competitive
system of dong business, in which
strong men like strong animals pre-,
upon the weak, shall give way to tn
more humane, more equitable and in
, fnitely better system Of cooperation
believing, we say, that some wher
in the future that happy condition 0
society will exist, we favor the inau
guratiOn as soon as it is practicable
of many of the plans and methods o
that great philanthrophist, Edwar,
Bethany, as stated by him in tina
wonderful book called Looking Back
/ ward"
While the writer has ever since on
early manhood affiliated with a cel
| tain political party because it cam
nearer doing what he thought wa
right than any other partisan organi
cation then existing, yet we repea
a what we have often said before tha
we cannot ba oDtbuead no.. .oII;o5 ,,