The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1892-01-05

ance Day?
Answer. 1t is to concentrate the
thoughts and attention on one dav i'm
the OegInn1ngO of theyear upon National
Alliance work and national issues. and
to secure from every member of the
Order such contribution as he or she
may be able and willing to give toward
assisting in the educational work of
the Order.
How may National Alliance Day be
made interesting, useful, and instruc-
tive?
Answer. By each member giving
such new facts as he may posse>s as to
the history or the objects of the Order;
singing Alliance songs, and by reading
and discussing the demands.
What are the demands of the Order?
Answer. The following is a correct
copy of the demands as amended at
Indianapolis:
81. o.. We demand the abolition of
national banks.
"b. We demand that the Govern
ment shall establish Sub Treasures in
the several States which shall issue
money direct to the people at a low
rate of tax, not to exceed 2 per cent.
per annum, on n0n-perishable farm
products, and also upon real estate,
with proper limitations upon the guam
tity of land and amount of money.
sc. We demand that the amount of
the circulating medium be speedily in
creased to not less than $50 per capita.
"2. We demand that Congress shall
pass such laws as will effectually pre-
vent the dealing in futures of all agri-
cultural and mechanical productions;
providing a stringent system of pro
cedure in trials that will secure prompt
conviction, and imposing such penal
ties as shall secure the most perfect
compliance with the law.
"3. We condemn the silver bill re-
Gently passed by Congress, and demand
In lieu thereof the free and unlimited
coinage of silver.
"a. We demand the passage of laws
prohibiting alien ownership of land,
and that Congress take prompt action
to devise some plan to obtain all lands
nov owned by aliens and foreign syn
dictates; and that all lands now held by
railroads and other corporations in
excess of such as is actually used and
needed by them be reclaimed by the
Government, and held for actual
settlers only.
IS. Believing in the doctrine of equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none, we demand
"a. That our national legislation
shall be so framed in the future as not
to build up One industry at the expense
of another
81. We further demand a removal
of the existing heavy tariff tax from
the necessities of life, that the poor of
our land must have.
&C. We further demand a just and
equitable system of graduated tax on
incomes.
I'D. We believe that the money of
the country should be kept as much as
possible i'm the hands of the people,
and hence we demand that all national
and State revenues shall be limited to
the necessary expenses of the Govern
ment economically and honestly ad-
ministered.
90. We demand the most rigid,
honest and just State and national
Governmental control and supervision
of the means of public communication
and transportation, and if this control
and supervision does not remove the
abuses now existing, we demand the
Government ownership of such means
of communication and transportation.
80. We demand that the Congress
of the United States submit an amend
ment to the Constitution providing for
the election of United States Senators
by direct vote of the people of each
State"
What is the Propaganda Fund?
Answer. 1t is a special fund com
posed of donations for the purpose of
assisting the Alliance educational work.
It is in charge of the Propaganda Fund
Committee, which composed of the
President and Secretary and the Exec
utive Board of the Order. The regu-
Iations governing it are that none can
be paid out except by unanimous con-
sent Of the Propaganda Fund Com
mittee. At regular intervals the Score
tary publishes in the National EcOnO-
/ mast all receipts and disbursements of
this fund. All literature purchased
with this fund must be at cost, and all
services rendered by officers or others
in handling or disburing this fund, or
any of it's literature, must be without
pay. Every effort is to be made every
dollar do the most possible good.
To what use is the Propaganda funds
applied?
Answer. TO the purchase of pam.
phlets, tracts and leaflets explaining
and defending Alliance principles and
to the distribution of literature to re-
form and other papers for publication,
and sometimes to paying the actual ex-
penses of a lecturer on some important
occasion when the lecture can not be
made self-sustaining. There is a de-
mand for information in Unorganized
sections and there is a great demand
for reform literature in all sections.
Does this Propaganda Fund CORES
pond to the campaign funds of the po-
litical parties?
Answer. It does not in any sense of
the word. Campaign funds, a used in
| politics. represents money paid by