The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-12-26

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Manager showing that the leases are
IA. Contracts with men to keep
business, one OF IS, 900 q year verbat
Several other papers will appear
certified before close of these articles.
Platform Of the Alliance and /. U.
The Farmers Alliance and Indus
trial Union at Ocala, Fla, last week,
elected the following officers:
President, L. L. Polk, reelected un-
animously; vice president, B. F.
Glover, reelected; secretary, j. II.
Turner, reelected; national lecturer,
J. S. Willets. II. D. Tillman of Ten
nesssee, was elected to the vacancy
on the committee on legislation for a
term OF three years, and Delegate
Cole of Michigan, was elected a men,
Der of the judiciary committee. The
new committee on fraternal relations
is composed OF Talbot of South Caro-
lima, Loucks OF South Dakota, Lily
ingston of Georgia, Rogers of Flori-
da, and Terrell of Texas. The ma
tional executive board remains I'M
changed.
PLATFORM.
First We demand the abolition of
national banks; we demand that the
government shall establish sub-treas
uries or repositories, in the several
states, which shall loan money direct
to the people at low rate OF inter-
est, not to exceed 2 per cent per
annum, on non-perishable farm pro-
ducts, and also upon real estate,
with proper limitations upon the
quantity OF land and amount OF
money. We demand the amount of
the circulating medium be speedily
increased to not less than $50 per
capita.
Second We demand that Congress
shall pass such laws as shall effect
ually prevent the dealing in futures
on all agricultural and mechanical
productions, preserving a stringent
system OF procedure in trials, such as
shall secure prompt conviction and
the imposition of such penalties as
shall secure the most perfect compli-
ance with the law. .,.a1
Third We condemn the silver bill
recently passed by Congress, and de-
mand in lieu thereof the free and un-
limited coinage OF silver.
Fourth We demand the passage
of law prohibiting alien OWE ership of
land, and that Congress take prompt
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 other
corporations in excess of such as is
actually used and needed by them,
be reclaimed by the government and
held for actual settlers only.
Fifth Believing in the doctrine OF
equal rights to all and special privi-
leges to none, we demand that our
national legislation shall be SO
framed in the future as net to build
up one industry at the expense OF an
other. We further demand q re-
moval OF the existing heavy tariff
from the necessaries OF life that the
poor of our land must have. We fur
Their demand 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 hence we demand that all ma
tional and state revenue shall be
limited to the necessary expenses OF
the government, economically and
honestly administered.
Sixth-We demand the most rigid,
honest and just state and national
governmental control and supervi-
sion of the means of public communi-
cation and transportation, and ii
this control and supervision do not
remove the abuses now existing, we
demand the government ownership
of such means of communication and
transportation.
Two dead ducks floated down the
same stream, with each label on a
leg. One said Comp1 omise- be-
hold he smelt unto heaven! Another
said Harmony-and behold he smelt
unto-brimstone It won't work
this time, gentlemen-try some other
time.
One of the first radical measures to
put through the legislature is to put
under statute form the manufacture
of Irvine at the State Prison, specify