The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1892-01-14
sAUK CENTRE HERALD
THURSDAY, JANUARY IA, 1892.
The Alliance.

The Alliance.
The following is the fill text of the
platform adopted by the State Alliance
of Minnesota:
Resolved. That we heartily indorse
the demands of the platforms as adopted
at st. Louis, Mo-, in 1889; Ocala, Fla,
in 1890. and Omaha, Neb., in 1891, and
industrial organizations there repre-
sented as follows:I
1. The right to make andissue money
is sovereign power to be maintained
by the people for the common benefit,
hence we demand the abolition of ma
tional banks OF issue, and as substitute
for national bank notes, we demand that
legal tender treasury notes be issued in
sufficient volume to transact the business
of the country on a cash basis, without
damage or especial advantage to any
class or calling, such notes to be legal
tender in payment of all debts, public
and private, and such notes when de-
1nanded by the people skall be loaned to
them at not more than two per cent.
per annum upon imperishable products,
as indicated in the .sub-treasnry plan,
and also upon real estate, with proper
limitation upon the quantity OF land and
amount of money.
2. We demand the free and unlimited
coinage Of silver.
4. We demand the passage of laws
prohibiting alien ownership OF land, and
that congress take prompt action to
devise some plan to obtain alllands now
owned by alien and foreign syndicates,
and that all land 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.
4. Believing the doctrine of equal
rights to all and special privileges to
none, we demand that taxation-na-
tional, state and municipal-shall not
be used to build up one interest at the
expense of another, and that this has
special reference to the tariff issue.
5. We demand that all revenues-na-
tional, state or county-shall be limited
to the necessary expenses of the govern
ment, economically and honestly admin
istered.
6. We demand just and equitable
system of graduated tax on income.
z. We demand the government owner
ship of all means of communication and
transportation. -s.#
8. We demand the election of the
president, vice-president and United
States senatoas by direct vote of the
people.
g That we urge united freedom OF
all progressive organizations in attend
ing the conference called for Feb. %,
1892, by six of the leading reform organ
izations.
10. Resolved, that the question of
universal suffrage be recommended to
the favorable consIderationof the various
States and territories.
IL. Resolved, that while the party in
bower in 1889 pledged the faith of the
nation to pay debt in coin that had
been contracted on a deprecated cur
fency basis and payable in currency, thus
adding nearly 81 900, 100000 to the
burdens of the people, which meant gold
for the boudholders and deprecated cur
rencv for the soldier, and holding that
the men who imperiled their lives to save
the life of q nation should have been
paid in mouey as good as that paid to
the bondholder, we demand the issue of
legal tender treasury notes in sufficient
amount to make the pay of the soldiers
equal to par with coin or such other
LEGISLATION as shall do equal and exact
iustice to the Union soldiers of this
country.
-. Resolved, that as eight hours
constitute legal days work for govern
meut employees In mechanical depart
ments, we believe this principle should
be farther extended so as to apply to all
corporations employing labor in the
different states of the Union.
13. Resolved, That this conference
condemns in unmeasured terms the ac-
t;on ot' the directors of the Worlds
Columbian exposition on May 10, 1891,
in which they refused the minimum rate
of wages asked i5r by the labor organi-
cations of Chicago.
Ia. Resolved, That the Minnesota
State Farmers Alliance is heartily in
favor of Joining with all reform organi-
cations in the formation of the Peoples
party, aud also that we instruct our
delegates to the conference to be held
Feb. %, 1892, to do all IN their power
to that end.
Is. Resolved, That we extend aid to
the poor OF our land, including the thou
sands of starving miners of Indiana, and
then extend aid to tine suffering Russians,
16. Resolved, That we ask that eQE,
press pass a law to compel the insuf-
ance of pateuts on land held by railroad
corporations where they are justly en-
titled to them. or to forfeit the same and
open it to entry, to actual settlers only.
IT. Resolved, That we demand that
each local Alliance in the state take steps
at once to organize and collect funds for
-, II IF n
the exp, nses of witness, and 60 before
the grand jury and secure the indictment
and conviction OF all parties who are en-
gagged in combinations to deprive the
producers of free market by preventing
competition and lowering the prices of
our productions: and that said money
should be paid into the state Alliance
treasury as distinct fund. and that said
fund be subject to the order of the execu-
tive committee to be used under their
direction.
10. Resolved, that this alliance takes
recognition of the boycott declared by
the knights of Labor and National
Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union
against the Rochester, N. Y, clothing
exchange, and ,equests the sub-alliances
to take the matter up.
10. We demand that the state shall
erect at Duluth adjacent to deep water
navigation. public warehouse where
grain may be stored without mixing, the
grain of different grades. while awaiting
a purchaser, at actual cost of such
storage.
20. Resolved, That the alliance of
Minnesota denounces the Pioneer Press
as an ally of the plutocracy of this age,
and as prosecutor and defamer of our
best men. That we rejoice in the victory
won by Ignatius Donnelly in the courts
over that vile enemy of the human race,
trusting the time will soon come when
such baleful lights shall become utterly
extinguished.
21. Resolved, That we disapproye of
the scheme to set aside a large portion
of the. northeastern part OF our state for
a national park as scheme of the pine
land and railroad rings to secure the
land for future corporation benefits; and