Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1892-07-08
AFTERNOON SESSION,
The Committee on Resolutions Makes Its
Report.


It was 2:07 o'clock when Chairman
Loucks called the convention to order,
hnt it was after p. III. before all the
delegates and visitors had secured seats
and the raps of the chairman had re-
suited IN even a beginning of business.
Almost Immediately there were loud
cries for the report Of the committee on
resolutions, and an attempt was made to
suspend the rules and proceed to NOM
nations. The effect of the proceedings
IN the convention was to alarm the reso-
lutlons committee. They became stam-
peded and soon filed on the stage with a
platform hastily brought to compile
ton. Thomas V. Gator, Of California,
read the preamble of the unanimous re-
port of the resolutions committee on the
platform adopted. Gator moved the
adoption of the preamble and it was
adopted by unanimous uprising of
delegates and tumultuous applause.
The Platform.
We demand a national currency, safe,
sound and feasible, issued by the general
government only, 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 per cent. per annum to be
provided as set forth in the sub-treasury
plank of the Farmers Alliance or some
better system, also by payments in dis
charge of it's obligations for public i'm
provements.
We demand the free and unlimited
coinage of silver and gold at the present
legal ratio of IL to l,
We demand that the amount of the cir
culating medium be speedily increased to
not less than $50 per capita.
We demand a graded Income tax. We
believe that the moneys of the country
should be kept as much as possible in the
hands of the people and hence we demand
that all national and state revenue shall
be limited to the necessary expenses of
the government economically and hon
estly administered.
We demand that the postal savings
banks be established by the government
foc the safe deposit of the earnings of the
people and to facilitate exchange.
Transportation being a means of ex-
exchange and public necessity the gov
ernment should own and operate the
railroads in the interest of the people.
The telegraph and telephone, like the
postal service being a necessity for the
transmission of news, should be owned
and operated by the government in the
interest of the people.
The land, including all the natural
sources of wealth, is the heritage of all
the people and should not be monopolized
for speculative purposes, and alien owner
ship of land should be prohibited. All
lands now held by railroads and other cor
porations in excess of their actual needs
and all lands now owned by aliens should
be reclaimed by the government and held
for actual settlers only.
After submitting the foregoing the COM
mittee on resolutions held another meet
ing and unanimously agreed to report the
following to the convention # the night
session:
Whereas, other questions have been pre-
sented for our consideration, we hereby
submit the following, not part of the
platform of the Peoples par y, but as
resolutions expressive of the sentiment of
this conventions:
First-Resolved, that we demand a free
ballot and fair count in all elections and
pledge ourselves to secure it to every
legal voter without federal Intervention
through the adoption in the states of the
Australian or secret ballot system.
Second-Resolved,t that the revenue de-
rived from the graded income should be
applied to the reduction of the burden of
taxation now resting upon the domestic
industries of this country.
Third-Resolved, that we pledge our
support to fair and liberal pensions to ex-
union soldiers and sailors.
Fourth-Resolved, that we condemn the
the fallacy of protection of American
labor under the present system, which
opens our ports to the pauper and Grim
inal classes Of the world and crowds out
our wage earners; and we denounce the
present ineffeatiya laws AGAINST contract