The advocate., 1890-02-13
FARMERs TAKE ACTION.
The LeayenworCh County Farmers AL
lance state their Grievances and
Demands for Relief

The Leayonworth county Farmers Alliance
hold d,meeting In TonganoXie Kan. Saturday
Fob. let 1870. All the sub-allianceu we're
fully represented BY delegates. The meeting
held kll day, tho action Of whichis embodied
Ia tho following reslOutlOns.
WthhhAb, The financial policy Of this gov
0rnmOnt has been such, that tho circulating
medium has contracted until II is insufficient
10 moet the business demands Of the country,
causing depression Of agricultural indus
triod, and placing the wealth producers at
the mercy Of tho money powers therefore be
II
REsoLVD, That we, tho Farmers. Alliance
and Industrial Union OF LeAyonworth Coun-
BY, Kansas, endorse tho articles Of agreement
OF Che National Farmers Alliance and In-
dustrial Union Of America adopted at 81.
Louis on December o, as set forth in the
following demands;
1. That we demand the abolition Of ma
tiOnal banks and the substitution of legal
tender treasury notes in lieu Of national
bank notes, issued in sufficient volume 10 do
the business OF the country on n cash aystemj
regulating the amount needed on per cap
lea basis az the business interests Of the
country expand; and that oil money issued
by the government shall bo legal tender in
paymsntofRu debts, both public and private.
2. That we demand that congress shall
pass such laws Az shall eifeCtually prevent
the dealing in futures Of all agricultu-
raj and mechanical productions;
prescribing a stringent system Of
procedure in trials as shall secure the
prompt conviction, and imposing such PEN
alties as shall secure the most perfect COM
pliance with the law.
3. That we demand tho free and unlimited
coinage Of silver.
4. That we demand tho passage OF laws
prohibiting the alien ownership of land, and
that congress take early steps TO devise
some plan 10 obtain all lands now owned by
aliens and foreign syndiCates, and that all
lands now held by railroads and other cor
poratiOns In excess OF SUCH as is actually
used and needed by them be reclaimed by
tho government and held for actual settlers
only.
3. Believing in the doctrine OF equal rights
TO all aud special privileges TO none, we de-
mand chat taxation, national or state, shall
not be used TO build up one interest or class
St che expense OF another.
We believe that the money Of the country
should DO kept az much as possible in the
hands Of the people, and henOO we demand
that revenues, national, state or county,
shall be limited TO the necessary expense Of
the government, economically and honestly
administered.
6. That congress issue a sufficient amount
of fractional paper currency 20 facilitate OK
change through the medium of the United
States mail.
z. That the means Of communication and
transportation shall be owned by, and ope-
rated in the interest Of the people, as in the
United States postal system, and that all
further extension Of the time Of payment Of
the Union Pacific Railroad debts should DO
denied by Congress, and steps taken to
forecloso the mortgage OF the government
on said railroad, as rapidly as said indebted
ness becomes due, to the end that said road
shall be owned and operated by and for the
people.
8. AND BR IT TURTHER RESOLVED, That we
favor commercial treaties which will dis
criminate in favor OF those nations which
accept silver as legal tender money as we'll
as gold, and against those which have de-
monetiEed silver
8. That we advocate free sugar with
bounty to home producers equal to present
Anrim dntiaal. free lnmhar and free oil