The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-07-20
A PROPOSED PLATFoRM.


PROPOSED PLATFORM.
II VIII be Urged by Those Who Favor a
Straight Out Ticket
ST. LOUIS, July 2O-The middle of tho
road Populists avea-platform prepared,
which was drawn up by Hon. Alfred Dag
gett of California, which they will sup
port, and under which they will attempt
to renominate straight out Populists for
the presidency and vice. presidency The
financial and tariff planks are:
We demand u national currency, safe,
sound and flexible, issued by the general
government as full legal tender for all
debts, public and private, and shch ma
tional currency should be issued by the
general government only, without thein-
tervention of any national bank, and
without the agency of any financial or
other corporation whatever.
We believe that the United States is in
fact free and Independent nation, and
that its freedom and financial and indus
trial liberty of its citizens should not be
made TO depend upon the financial whim,
caprice or ayarice Of any foreign nation,
and therefore we demand the free and un-
limited coinage of gold and silver by the
government of the United States at the
present legal ratio Of is to i, without ref
erence 20 the action or financial course of
any foreign nation
We demand that the laws authorizing
the incorporation Of national banks be alb
solutely and unconditionally repealed and
that all national banks and the national
banking system now in vogue be abolished.
We demand that congress enact a law
which shall declare that all contracts, OBJ
,f Z md NJ
character requiring the payment Of money
shall be payable at the option of the debtor
In gold or silver coin, or other lawful cur
rency of the United States, and that such
law shall declare that every provision in
serted or made a part of any such contract
obligation or Judgment, which requires
the debtor to pay the money due there
under in any specified kind of coin or cur
rency shall be null and void
We demand that the amount Of circul0-
tion medium be speedily increased to not
less than $50 per capita of the population.
We demand that the government estab-
lsh "A system of postal savings banks in
each city, town, village and hamlet Of the
United States which contains d popula-
tion Of 900 or more ana that the people
be permitted to deposit their money for
safe keeping in such postal savings banks
and that the government carry on the
business of transmission OF money from
one point to another through the medium
of postal bills Of exchange through said
postal savings banks.
We demand that law be passed by
congress authorizing the government 20
loan to citizens of the United States, but
not 60 aliens or corporations, money on all
land and property TO the extent of two
thirds of the assessed value Of said prop
erty, which loans shall be secured by
mortgage to the government, upon rate Of
interest not TO exceed per cent. per
! annum.
We demand that law be passed by con-
gress authorizing the governments to loan
| money to municipal corporations in the
various states for the purpose of public
| Improvement TO the the extent of one
/ third of the assessed valuation of the tax
| able property In such municipal corpora
ton and the rate of interest charged
should not exceed the actual cost Of issu-
ing the loan
The tariff plank faVors commission
representing all the lAboring, manufacture
ing, mining and agricultural interests,
which commission shall report annually
to congress, so that the tariff may, from
time TO time, if necessary, be amended,
"in the interest of justice alike to the
manufacturer, the agriculturalist, the
miner and the American laborer, so that
its protective features, If any shall ex-
tend to the whole body Of American in
dustry And we demand that all tariff
legislation be SO framed and enforced as
TO prevent the formation of trusts and
other combinations
The platform further demands that this
government own and operate the rail
roads, telegraph and telephone systems
that the government build and operate tn,
Nicaragua canal that the people shoul,
have the right through the initiative anl
, referendum to declare their viii on al
, great questions that the president, vic
president and United States senators b
J elected by the direct vote; that ther
3 should be the graduated income tax tina
p the land should not be owned for specu
lative purposes, and that aliens, residen
/, and nonresident, should be prohibits
a from owning any land In this country an
r to prevent and destroy land monopoly
h there should be a graduated land tax
C that congress should pass and enforce a
effective law against immigration. Th
= issuance of government bonds is d,
/ nounced as unconstitutional in law an
II vicious and unjust in morals.
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