The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-04
Platform.

Your Committee on Resolutions and Platform,
having attended to the duty assigned them, beg
leave to make the following report:
WHEREAS: 1t has been demonstrated by the
history of the asst two years-pregnant with ponos
and bankruptcy at home, corruption and cowardlce
i'm foreign Citations, disaster and DEATH starVaton
strikes and general stagnation OF all business
enterpriss-that the Peoples Party was formed
none too soon to avert the complete destruction OF
our form of government and the liberties OF our
people Therefore be 1t
BFsoryED. That we endorse the declarations
| and platform of the Peoples Party adopted at
Omaha on the 4th. OF July, A. d. 1892, rs follows:
PEOPLES PARTY PLATFORM.
| Adopted at the National Convention July A. 1882.
We declare--l. That the union Of the labor
forces of the United States, this day consummated
shall be permanent aud perpetual. May its spirit
enter into all hearts for the salvation OF the re-
| nublic and the uplifting of mankind.
O. Wealth belongs to him who creates 1t, and
every dollar taken from industry without an
| enuiyalent is robbery. "If any i'll not work,
naither shall he eat" The interests Of rural and
civic labor the same; their interests are ldenti
"a We believe that the ,ims has come when the
roiiroA I'd corpuratiuns will either own the people
or the people must own the railroads; and should
the government enter upon the work OF owning
and managing any all railroads, we should favor
an amendment to the constitution by which al
| persons engaged in the government service shall
| he placed under n civil service regulation OF the
most rigid ch racter as to prevent the increase
~ the mower of the national administration by the
nee of such additional governm ent employees.
4 We demand national currency, safe, sound
and flexible, issued by the general government
only full legal tender for all debts, public and
private, and taat without the use OF banking cor
porations, a Just, equitable and efficient means OF
disributon direct to the people, at a tax not eX
' ceeding two per centum per annum, pe proviueu
ma set forth in the subtreasury plan OF th
Farmers Alliance, or some better system; also D!
payments in discharge of its obligations forpuoli
| improvements.
r q
of silver and gold at the present legal ratio OF
6 G. We demand that the amonnt Of ths circulat
- ing medium be increased to not less man YOU pc
| capita. .
II 8, We believe that the money CT the countr
~ should be Kept as much as possible in the hand
of the people, and hence we demand thit az sta az
a and national revenue shall be limited to u
n, n,cassary expenses of the government, econom
II cally and honestly administered -
is 0 We demand that postal savings banks
established by the government for the safe depos
of the earnings of the people and to facilitate G
change
70 To- Transportation being means of exc hang
and public necessity, the government shouiu oM
p and operate the railroads in the interests OF u
ST people t.,o,,ho,o lilo :,
to postofice system being necessity for transmits
a. ion of news, should be owned ana operated oy
e- Government in the interests OF the people,
nm ~ The land includiI all the natural sourc
of wealth is the heritage of all the people, al
)f. should not be monopolized Tor speculative p,
~, poses ana alien ownership OF land should DC pi
us hihite1 All lands now held by railroads o
. other corporatons in excess of their actual nee
and all lands now owned by aliens should De
ba claimed by the government anu heiu ior ao''
" settlers only. -, -, ,
he And WUFnFAs: 1t is apparent that there
,o collusion between tho leaders OF the SO called
w publican and Democratic parties in order 10
the people into fancied security TO euange aoih