The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-05-29
Platform and Resolutions OF the
Peoples Party.
Your committee on resolutions bse

Platform and Resolutions of the
Peoples Party.
i Your committee ON resolutions bsg
leave to submit the following:
/. That in view of the great soc;,tl.
industrial and economical revolution
now dawnlng upon the civilized world
4 and the new and living issues confront
ling the American people, we believe that
4 the time has arrived for u capitalization
OF the political reform sources OF our
! country and the formation of what
| should be known as the Peoples party
OF the United States OF America.
| 2. That we most heartily lndorse the
demands OF the platforms as adopted at
st. Louis, Mo-, 1889; Ocala, Fla, 1890,
ar1 Omaha, Eeb.; 1891, by the indus
trial organizations there represented, i,
summarized as follows:
A-The right to make and issue money
is u sovereign power to be maintained
by the people for the common benefit;
| hence we demand the abolition OF ma
| tlonal banks as banks OF issue and as a
substitute for national bank notes we
demand that legal tender Treasury
notes be issued in sufficient volume to
transact the business OF the country on
a cash basis without damage or especial
ladyantaget to any class or calling. sneh:
note to he legal tender IN payment Of ali
Idebts, public and private and, and such
notes when demanded by the people
shall be loaned to them at not more
than two per cent per annumllpon non
imperishable products as indicated in
the subtreasury plan. and also upon
realestate with proper limitation upon
the quantity of land and amount OF
money.
B-We demand the free and unlimited
coinage OF silver.
| Give demand the passage OF laws
prohibiting the alien ownership OF land,
and that congress take prompt action
to devise some plan to obtain all lands
now owned by alien and foreign syndi-
Gates, and that all lands held by rail-
roads and other corporations in excess
! OF such as is actually used and needed
by them be reclaimed by the govern
ment and held for actual settlers only.
D-Believing in the doctrine OF equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none, we demand that taxation-na-
tional, state or municipal-shall not be
used to build up one interest or class at
the expense OF another.
Eve damand that all revenues.
national, state OF county-shaIl be linn
tied to the necessary expenses OF the
government economically and honestly
administered.
Eve demand IL just and equitable
system OF graduated tax on income.
Give demand the most rigid, honest
and just national CONTROL and super
vision OF the means OF public commune
cation and transportation; and if this
control and supervision does not re-
move the abuses now existing, we de
r1anI -ho ,o,,f o,vTapshir, nj n
means OF communication and transpor-
ia ton.
Hive demand the election OF presi-
dent, yice-presldent and United States
senators by a direct vote OF the people.
RECOMMENDATIONS.
That we urge united action of all pro-
gresslve organizations in attending the
conference called for February 22, 1892,
by six OF the leading reform organiza-
tions.
That a national central committe be
appointed by this conference, to be com
posed Of chairman to be elected by
this body and OF three members from
each state represented, to be named by
each state delegation.
That this central committee shall
represent this body, attend the nationa
conference on February %, 1892, and
if possible, unite with that and all re
form organizations there assembled. l
no satisfactory arrangement can be
effected this committee shall call 8
national convention not later than Jun.
l, 1892, for the purpose OF nominating
candidates for President and Nicc-Pres
ident.
That the members OF the central com
mittee for each state where there Ii
no independent political organization
conduct an active system OF pOlitica
agitation in their respective states.
RESOLUTIONS.
Resolved, That the question OF univer
sal suffrage be recommended to the la
yorable consideration Of the various
States and Territories.
Resolved, Thatw while the party in pow
er in 1869 pledged the falth oi the nation
5 to pay debt in coin that had been con
tracted on a deprecated currency basis
and payable in currency, thus addlp:
nearly one billion dollars to the burdens
OF the people. which meant gold for the
/ bondholder and deprecated currency
e for the soldier, and holding that the mel
I who inperilled their lives to save the lif'
2 OF a nation should have been paid il
e money asgood as that paid to the bond
/ holder, we demand the issue OF legal
y ItuucE CletiouIf AOlCo III ouLllSieLi
i amounts to make the pay Of the soldier
e equal to par with com, or such othe
] legislation as shall do equal and exact
il justice to the Union soldiers OF this coun
n try.
0 Resolved, That as eight hours consti
S tute legal days work for Goyernmen
:. in mechanical departments, we bellev
), this principle should be farther extende'
SO as to apply to all corporations EN-
ploying labor in the different States 0
the Union.
Resolved, That this conference cor
J. demns in unmeasured terms the actor
n OF the directors Of the Worlds Co)um
n ban Exposition OH May 10 il rcsus;n
l. mininm rate OF wages asked for b
e the labor organizations Of Chicago.
l. Resolved, That the Attorley-Gener;
OF the United States should make irmt
J. dlate provision to submit the ac: c
II March 2 1889, providing for the O. n
le OF Oklahoma to homestead set. .-.-..
to the United States Supreme Court S
It that the expensive and dilatory litigs
), ton now pending there will be ended.