The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1892-08-26
PEOPLES PARTY PLATFORM
FINANCE.

FINANCE.
First. We demand National cur
reucy, 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
banking corporations, just, equitable,
and efficient means of distribution direct
to the people at tax not to exceed 2
per cent, per annum, to be provided as
set forth in the sub treasury plan of the
Farmers Alliance, or better system !,
also by payments in discharge of its
obligations for public improvements.
We demand free and unlimited coin.
age of silver and gold at the present
egal ratio Of l6 to l.
We demand that the amount of cir.
cuIating medium be speedily increased
to not less than $50 per capita.
We demand a graduated income tax.
We believe that the money Of the
country should be kept as much as pos
sible in the hands of the people, and
hence we demand that ali States and
National revenues shall be limited to
the necessary expenses of the Govern
ment economically and honestly admin
istered.
We demand that postal savings banks
be established by the Government for
the safe deposit of the earnings of the
people and TO facilitate exchange.
TRANSFORMATION.
Second. Transportation being a
means of exchange and a public neces,
sity, the Government should own and
operate the railroads in the interest of
the people.
The telegraph and telephone, like
the post office system, being a necessity
for the transmission of news, should be
owned and operated by the Government
in the interest of the people.
LAND.
Third. The land, including all the
natural sources of wealth, is the herit-
age of the people, and should not be
monopolized for speculative purposes.
and alien ownership of land should be
prohibited. All land now held by
railroads and other corporations in ex-
cess of their actual needs and ali lands
now owned by aliens should be reclaim
ed by the Government and held for
actual settlers only.
The following resolutions were
offered independent of the platform,
and were adopted, as expressive of
the sentiment of the convention:
Resolved, That we demand free
ballot and a fair count in all cleo
tions, and pledge ourselves to secure
it to every legal voter without Fed
eral intervention through the adop-
ton by the States of the unperverted
Australian secret ballot system.
ResOlped, That the revenue deriv-
ed from a graduated income tax
should be applied to the reduction of
the burden of taxation now levied
upon the domestic ind dustries of this
country.
RESOLVED, That we pledge our sup.
port to fair and liberal pensions TO
ex- U Union soldiers and sailors.
Resolved, That we condemn the
fallacy of protecting American labor
under the present system, which
opens our pGrts to the pauper and
criminal classes of the world and
crowds out our wage earners, and we
denounce the present ineffective law
against contract la oor, and demand
the further restriction of undesirable
emigration.
Resolved, That we cordially SYM
pathize with the efforts of organized
workingmen to shorten the hours OF
labor. and demand rigid enforce
ment of the existing eight-hour law
on Government work, and esk that a
penalty clause be added to the said
law.
RESOLVED, That we regard the
maintenance of a large standing
army of mercenaries, known as the
Pinkerton system, as menace to
our liberties, and we demand its abo-
lition, and we condemn the recent
invasion of the Territory of Wyom-
ing by the hired assassins of plutoc
racy, assisted by Federal officers.
Resolved, That we commend to the
thoughtful consideration of the peo
pie and the reform press the legisla.
tive system known as the initiative
and referendum.
Resolved, That we favor a consti