Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1892-11-03

to help us TO determine vnetner We are To
have a republic to administer before we differ
as to the conditions upon which it is to be adj
ministered, believing that the forces of reform
this day organized will never cease to move
forward until every wrong IS remedied and
equal rights and equal privileges securely es-
tablshed for all the men and women of this
country.
We declare. therefore
That the union Of the labor forces Of the
United States this day contaminated shall be
permanent and perpetual-may its spirit enter
into all hearts for the salvation OF the republic
and the uplifting of mankind.
Wealth belongs to him who creates it, and
every dollar taken from industry without an
neither shall he eat The interests OF rural
and civic labor are the same: their enemies
We believe that the time has come when the
railroad corporations must either own the peo-
pie or the people must own the railroads, and
should the government enter upon The work of
owning and managing any or all railroads we
should favor an amendment to the constitution
by which all persons engaged in the government
service shall lie placed under a civil service
regulation of the most rigid character, SO as
to prevent the increase of the power Of the
national administration by the use of such
additional government employees.
We demand a national currency, safe. sound
and flexible. issued by the general government
only: a full legal tender for all debts, public
and private, and that without the use of bank
ing corporations; a just, equitable and efficient
means of distribution, direct to the people at
a tax not to exceed per cent. per annum, to
be provided as set forth in the sublreasury
plan Of the Farmers Alliance or some better
system: lso by payments in discharge OF its
obigatn for public improvements.
We demand the free and unlimited coinage
of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of
10 to l..
We demand that the amount of the circulat-
ing medium be speedily increased to not less
than fifty dollars per capita.
We demand Il graduated income tax.
We believe that tile moneys of the country
should be kept as much us possible in the
hands of the people, and hence we demand
that all national and state revenues shall be
limited to the necessary expenses Of the gov
eminent economically and honestly admins
tered.
We demand that postal savings banks he es-
tablished by the government for the safe de-
post of the earnings of the people and to facil-
itate exchange.
Transportation being q means of exchange
and Il public necessity, the government should
own and operate the railroads in the interest
of the people.
The telegraph and telephone, like the post
office system, being necessity for the trans
mis- >iun of news, should be owned and oper-
II ed by the government in the interest of the
,eOple.
The land, including all the natural sources
Dt wealth, is the heritage of all the people. and
slr)uid not be inonopoliZed for speculative pur-
pOses and an alien ownership Of land should
be prohibited. All lands low held by rail
roads and other corporations in excess of their
acrual needs, and all lands now owned bv
aliens should be reclaimed by the government
aud held for actual settlers only.