Nevada County picayune., 1890-07-17
THE U. L. STATE PLATFORM.

 toll, and thus enable the producers of wealth to provide themselves and families with the means of physical comfort and the facilities for mental, social and moral culture, we dcpre- cate and condemn q. unworthy of our civilization a system of laws that imposes upon the wealth-producers q state of perpetual drndgery as the price of bare existence.
 Notwithstanding the enormous in crease of productive power. the uni- ycr,aI introduction of labor-saving machinery and the discovery of new agents for the increase of wealth, the task of the laborer is not light encd. the hours of toll not shortened. and but few producers are lifted from poverty and want into comfort and pecuniary independence.
 The associated monopolies, tle international syndicates and other income classes demand dear money and cheap labor, q strong govern mcnt and hence a weak people.
 Corporate control of the volume of money has been the means of di- yiding society into hostile classes of the unjust discrimination of the products of labor, and of building up monopolies of associated capital with the power to coniiscate private prop erty and cnslave the producers of wealth It has kept money scarce and enforced dcbt-trade, and pri- vatc, public and corporate loans i; debt cngenders usury, apd usury ends in bankruptcy.
 1 Other results are deranged mar kcts. uncertainty in manufacturing enterprises. precarious and unsteady employment for the laborcr, increas- ing pauperi,m and crime and the consequent intimidation and disfran- chiscment of the producer.
 The system of tranSportatiOn-One of the great factors of distribution ha- been perverted from it's legiti- mate object, and made a source of oppression, instead of a blessing to the productive classes.
 Under these forms of oppression the lands of the people are rapidly passing into the hands of corporate monopolics and rich capitalists, and the people are being deprived ol their homes.
 Therefore we declare
 |. That national banks should bo abolished: that the right to make and Issue money is a sovereign power to be maintained by the people foI the common benefit The dclcga- tion of this right to corporation, i> q surrender of the central attribute oi sovereignty, void of constitutional sanction, conferring upon q subor- dinatc irresponsible power an abso- lute dominion over commerce. All money issued by the government shall be fun legal tender, and in such volume as to transact the busl- ness of the country on d cash basis, and the volume should be kept as uniform as possible, regulating it upon per capita basis. As means of relieving the depressed condition of those engaged in the productive industries we favor the free and un- limited coinage of silver and govern mcnt loan, on real estate to those en- gagged i'll farming.
 ,. That the means of cOmmuni- cation and transportation should be owned and controlled hy the govern mcnl, and operated, at cost, in the interest of the people, as in the nited States postal system.
 5. That we favor the passage of laws prohibiting the alien ownership of land, and that Congress take early action to devise some plan to obtain all lands now owned by aliens and foreign syndicates; and that all lands now held by railroads and oth- CT corporations in excess of such as is actually used and needed by them, be reclaimed by the government and hcld for actual settlers only.
 f. Iu the fultDcran-c of these ends we ask the cooperation of all falr-minded people. We have no quarrel with individuals; we wage no war upon classes, but only against vicious institutions and practices. We are not content to endure fur ther party discipline from our pres ent actual ruler, who, having domin- ion over money, over transportation,