Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1890-09-08

/ any system OI government lIldC uVcs AOI
maintain and protect this inalienable
right is wrong and should be changed or
abolished.
PENSIONS.
We favor a service pension to every
union soldier and sailor, and we believe
that Justice demands that the deprecated
currency in which they were paid should
be male good, and as full and complete
faith be kept by the government with
the soldiers rs with the bOndhOlders, and
that ex- prisoners of war be remunerated
for the time served in prison.
l. 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 uf the country on cash
system, regulating the amount needed
on cash system. regulating the amount
needed on a per capita basis as the bust
ness interest of the country expand and
that all money issued by the government
shall be legal tender in payment Of all
debts public and private.
2. We demand the tree and unlimited
coinage of silver.
3. We demand that Congress shall
pass such laws as shall effectually pre-
vent the dealing IN futures in all agri-
cultural and mechanical productions,
preserving such stringent system of
procedure in trials as shall secure prompt
conviction, and imposing such penalties
as shall secure the most perfect cOmpli-
ance with the law.
| 4. We demand the passage of laws
prohibiting alien ownership of land, and
that Congress take early steps to devise
some plan to obtain all lands now own
ed by aliens and foreign syndicates; and
that all lands now held by railroads and
other corporations IN excess Of such as
are actually used and needed by them, be
reclaimed 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, ma
tiOnal or state, shall not be used to build
up one interest or class at the expense of
i, another.
We believe that the money Of the coun-
try should be kept as much as possible
in the hands of the people, and hence we
demand that all revenues, national, state
and county shall be limited TO the neces-
sary expenses of the government ecOnOm-
ically and honestly administered.
6. We demand that Congress provide
for the issue of sufficient amount Of
fractional paper currency to facilitate
exchange through the medium Of the
United States mail.
z. We de nand that means of cOmmun-
icatiOn and transportation shall be own
ell and operated in the interests of the
people, AS in the United States postal
system.
8. We demand such legislation as
shall effectually prevent the extortion of
usuriOus interest by any form of evasion
of statutory provisions.
8. We demand such legislation as
will provide for reasonable stay of ex-
ecutiOn in all cases of foreclosure of
mortgages on real estate, and reasOna-
BILE extension of time before the con-
firmation of sherff's sales.
ID. We demand such legislation as
will effectually prevent the organization
or maintenance Of trusts and combines
for purposes Of speculation in any of
the products of labor or necessities of
life, or the transportation of the same.
H., We demand the adjustment OF
salaries of public officials to correspond
with existing financial conditions, the
wages paid to other forms of labor, and
the prevailing prices of the products Of
labor.
IL. We demand the adoption of the
Australian system of voting and the
Crawford county system OF primaries.
People of Kansas, we come 20 YOU on