Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-10-18
Alliance Platform.

The following seven demands
were adopted at the st. Louis con-
vention, December, 1880, as the
platform of the National Farmers
Alliance and Industrial Union:
1. We demand the abolition of nation
al banks and the substitution of legal
tender treasury notes in lieu of national
bank notes, issued in sufficient volume to
do the business of the country on a cash
system, regulating the amount needed on
akper capita basis as the business interests
OF the country expand; and that all money
issued by the government shall be legal
tender in payment of all debts, both pub
lie and private.
2. We demand the free and unlimited
col nag Of silver.
8, We demand that'congress shall pass
such laws as shall effectually prevent the
dealing in futures in all agricultural and
mechanical productions, preserving such
a stringent system of procedure in trials
as shall secure prompt conviction and
imposing such penalties as shall secure
thej most perfect compliance with the
law.
4. We demand the passage of laws pro-
hibiting alien ownership of land, and that
congress take early steps to devise some
plan to obtain all lands now owned by
aliens aud foreign syndicates; and that
all lands now held by railroads and other
corporations in excess of such as are actu-
ally used and needed by them, be re-
claimed by the government and held for
actual settlers only.
5. Believing IN the doctrine of "equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none" we demand that taxation, national
or state, shall not be used to build up one
interest or class at the expense of another.
We believe that the money of the country
should, heskept as much as possible in
the hands OF the people, and hence we de-
mand that all revenues, national, state or
county, shall be limited to the necessary
expenses of the government economically
and honestly administered.
6. We demand that congress provide
for the issue of sufficient amount of
fractional paper currency to facilitate ex-
change through the medium OF the United
States mail.
Z. We demand that the means of COM
muuicRtion and transportation shall be
owned by and operated in the interest Of
the people, as is the United States postal
system,
The Kansas F. A. and /. q. add to
the above these:
8. We demand such legislation as shall
effectually prevent the extortion of usur-
ious interest by any form OF evasion of
statutory provisions.
8. We demand such legislation as will
provide for reasonable stay OF execu-
ton In all cases of foreclosure of mortgs-
ges on real estate, and a reasonable ex-
tension Of time before the confirmation OF
sheriff sales.
10. We demand such legislation as will
effectually prevent the organization or
maintenance of trusts and combines for
purposes of speculation in any of the pro-
ducts of labor or necessities OF life, or the
transportion of the same.
II. We demand the adjustment of sal
aries of public officials to correspond with
existing financial conditions, the wages
paid to other forms of labor, and the pre-
vailing prices of the products of labor.
10. We demand the adoption of the
Australian system Of voting and the CFaw-
ford system OF primaries.