Kansas agitator. [volume] (Garnett, Kan.) 1890-1905, 1894-02-22

@ help us to determine wnerner we are &c
have republic to administer before we differ
as to the conditions upon which it is to be ad-
ministered. believing that the forces Of reform
this day organized will never cease to move
forward until every wrong Is remedied and
equal rights and equal privileges securely es-
tabliShed for all the men and women OF this
country.
We declare, therefore
That the union of the labor forces of the
United States his day consummated shall be
permanent and perpetual-may its spirit enter
into all hearts for the salvation of the republic
and the uplifting of mankind.
Wealth belongs to him who creates it, and
every dollar taken from industry without an
neeither shall he eat" The III" interests s Of rural
and civic labor are the same; their enemies
are identical
We believe that the time has come when the
railroad corporations must either own the peo-
pie or the people must own the railroads, and
should the government enter upon the work OF
owning and managing any or all railroads
should favor an amendment to the constitution
by which all persons engaged in the government
service shall he placed under civil service
regulation of the most rigid character, so as
to prevent the increase of the power OF the
national administration by the use of such
additional government employees.
We demand IL national currency, safe, sound
and flexible, issued by the general governments
only; a full legal tender for all debts, public
apd private, and that without the use of bank
ing corporations; a just, equitable and efficient
means of distribution, direct to the people, at
a tax not to exceed 2 per cent. per annum, to
be provided as set forth in the subreasury
plan of the Farmers Alliance, or some better
system; $50 by payments in discharge of its
obligati FOR public improvements.
We d. uiand the free and unlimited coinage
of silver and gold at the present legal ratio OF
l6 to l.
We demand that the amount of the circulat-
ing medium be speedily increased to not less
than fifty dollars per capita.
We demand q graduated 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 revenues shall be
limited to the necessary expenses of the gov
eminent economically and honestly admins
tered.
We demand hat postal savings banks be es-
tablished by the government for the safe de-
post of the earnings of he people aud to facfl-
itate exchange.
Transp ortation being means Of exchange
and a public necessity 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 trains
mis- ion of news. should be owned and Oper-
Il ed by the government in the interest of tbs
seOple.
The land including all the natural sources
Of wealth, is the heritage OF all the people. and
hnDuid not be monopOlizcd for speculative pur-
poses ana an alien ownership of land should
be prohibited. All lands now held by rail
road and oihur corporations in excess of their
acillul needs and all lands now owned "
aliens shOrli ~ reclaimed by the government
,d held ins actual settlers only