The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-09-03
ganized and conducted with this end in

view.
THE foundation of our most ideal
life is the home. To be able to secure
and provide for the home, the prime
requisite is assured access to land, ma
chlnery and tools used for supplying
human needs.
Therefore, we demand:
First-In education, in order that
every child shall be as perfectly equip
ped for the race of life as its mental
and physical endowment will permit
Second-In employment in order
that no human being shall be at any
time denied the opportunity to supply
MS needs by honorable labor.
"Third-In reward. that every
worker mental and physical, shall re-
ce1ve as exactly as 1t is possible to de-
| termine, the full value of the service
| rendered by him.
Fourth-In disability, whether by
sickness, accident, or natural causes,
every needed service shall be render
| ed at public expense.
F1fth-In old age, that every per-
son who reaches a certain determined
| age shall be entitled to honorable re-
t1rement, with a fixed income equal
to his needs. and
Sixth-In death, that burial shall
| be assured at public expense. and that
the average income earned by the de-
ceased shall be assured to those de-
| pending on him for support until
! able to provide for themselves.
AS a condition necessary to the
fulf1llment of the above requirements:
we demand that all land shall be
| coliectlVely owned in order that Sc
| cure home title which cannot be
wrecked by unpaid taxes, mortgage
foreclosure or debt, may be assured.
| and that free access to all natural
opportunities may be enjoyed by all.
| We also demand that all machin-
cry which must be collectively used,
In
egraphs, telephones, mills, foundries.
| factories, etc, shall be coIlectiveIv
owned and operated, not for profit.
out Tor the purpose of supplying hui
possible.
Our sole object in making the above
| demands is to extend to each and all
the opportunity to earn, own use ana
enjoy any form of property which the
7 IholViuual or the family can use in or
Ger that every person may be enabled
| to develop his individuality to the ut-
most limit Of his. mental and physical
| endowments.
I'm order that the above program
may be carried out without danger
through such graft and dishonesty, as
| curse our present system,
We demand the initiative, or the
power by the people to propose any law
or change which they may desire.
| The referendum, or the right by the
| people to sanction or veto any law or
e1lctment. thereby placing it beyond
the power of any official or court to
veto or destroy.
THE right of recall, or the power of
| the people to remove from position any
| individual who fails to do their bid
ding.
To Eliminate Profit.
by the carrying into effect of the
| foregoing demands and provisions we
pl oppose to eliminate profit, interest
l nd nr1f he Arx
| wealth of the workers has been alb
| sorbed in the past, as now, by the
idle and the. vicious. by which uncouut-
ed wealth has been acquired by the
| few, and dire poverty has been suffer-
ed by the many; by means of which
| idlers have lived lives of uselessness
| and millions have been driven to de-
| bauchery and crime.
"And while working to bring into eff
feet more Just and enlightened SyS-
tenn. we demand:
Free text books to be furnished in
all public schools; the same to be
printed by the state.
Equal suffrage for all adult men and
: women.
Equal pay for equal service for both
men and women.
"All land sold for taxes shall be pur-
| chased by the state.
municipalities shall be empowered to
acquire and conduct all municipal util-
tiles desired by their residents.
/ Nonresident landlords and all cor
| porations shall be required to assess
their property for taxation, the state
, ! reserving the right TO take over such
, | property at it's assessed value plus II
, per cent.
: THE entire earnings of the Republi-
: can and Democratic inmates of the state
, penitentiary shall be turned over tc
their families, the expense of main
3 tanning these institutions being borne
by the taxpayers while they vote tc
l maintain system which deprives mil.
lions Of employment, and thereby forces
them into crime.
"And to the end that we may speed
] lily carry into effect the above pro
J. | ton and support of all who wish tx
: reward industry, abolish graft, and pro
: mote the general welfare OF all worth,
b citizens"