The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-09-27

8. The public lands being thenatura1
inheritance of the people, we denounce
that policy which has granted to cor
poFations vast tracts of land, and we
demand that immediate and vigorous
measures be taken to reclaim from
such corporations, for the peoples use
and benefit, all such land grants as
have been forfeited by reason of non
fulflment of contract, or that may
have been wrongfully acquired by cor
rupt legislation, and that such re-
claimed lands and other public domain
be henceforth held as a sacred trust,
to be granted only to actual settlers in
limited quantities; and we also demand
that the alien ownership of land, indi-
vldual or corporate shall be prohibited.
A. We demand congressional regula-
ton OF inter. State commerce We de-
nounce pooling" stock watering and
discrimination in rates and charges,
and demand that Congress shall correct
these abuses, even If necessary, by the
construction of national railroads. We
also demand the establishment of a
government postal telegraph system.
5. All private property, all forms of
money and obligations to paw. money.
should pay their just proportion of the,
public taxes. We demand graduated
income tax.
6. We demand the amelioration of
the condition of labor by enforcing the
sanitary law In industrial establish.
ments, by the abolition of the convict
labor System, by rigid inspection of
mines and factories, by reduction of
the hours of labor in industrial estab-
lishments, by fostering educational in
stitutions and by abolishing child labor
z. We condemn all importations Of
contracted labor, made with a view Of
reducing to starvation wages the work
ingmen OF this country, and demand
laws for its prevention.
8. We insist upon q constitutional
amendment reducing the terms of
United States Senators.
9. We demand such rules for the
government of Congress as shall place
all representatives of the people upon
an equal footing, and take away from
committees veto power greater than
that of the President
10. The question as to the amount
of duties to be levied upon the various
articles of import has been agitated and
quarreled over and has divided com
munities for nearly hundred years.
1t is not now and never will be settled
unless by the abolition of indirect taxa
tfen. 1t is a convenient issue-a ways
raised when the people are excited
over abuses in their midst. While we
favor a wise revision Of the tariff laws,
with view to raising a revenue from
luXuries rather than necessaries, we
insist that as an economic question its
importancei is Insignificant as compared
with financial issues; for whereas we
have suffered our worst panics under
low and also under high tariff, we have
never suffered from panic nor seen our
factories and workshops closed while
the volume of money IN circulation
was adequate to the needs of commerce.
Give our farmers and manufacturers
money as cheap as you now give it to
our bankers, and they can pay high
wages to labor, and compete with all
the world.
IL. For the purpose of testing the
sense of the people upon the subject,
we are in favor of submitting to vote
of the people an amendment to the
Constitution in favor of suffrage re-
gardless of sex, and also on the subject
Of the liquor traffic.
H. ALI disabled soldiers of the late
war should be equitably pensioned, and
we denounce the policy of keeping a
small army Of Office holders whose
only business is to prevent, on techni-
cal grounds, deserving soldiers from
obtaining justice from the government
they helped to save.
49, AS our name indicates, we are
National party, knowing no East, no
West, no North, no South. Having
no sectional prejudices, we can prop
erly place in nomination for the high.
offices of state as candidates, men from
any section of the Union
IA. We appeal TO all people who be-
lieve in our principles to aid US by
voice, pen and voOes
TO BE CONTINUED.