Os the Farmers’ Alliance, for instance, he
says. (page 127, Vol. V.) that their demands
for • ( form ‘‘''showed the thinking of crude and
ig n •>!■(! n t in Inds.”
What were these measures of reform which
revealed the crude and ignorant mind—re
vealed it to academic prigs like Woodrow
Wilson?
Those reforms included direct election of
U. S. Senators, such as we now have by Con
stitutional amendment ;
The I ncomc Tax. such as Congress now has
the power to levy, by Constitutional amend
ment;
.1 Parcels Post, such as we now have by
Congressional enactment;
A System of Rural, Credits, such as was
promised h» (he National Democratic plat
form. on v. ih h Woodrow Wilson was elected
President,
The peddle ownership of public utilities,
such as the most enlightened and progressive
nations of the world now have in successful
operat ion:
The creation of all money by the Govern-
THE JEFFERSONIAN
went, such as we have by joint act of Con
gress and of President Woodrow Wilson—the
Alliance demand being that the Government
should not only create the money, but should
issue it and control it, without the interven
tion of monopolistic, tyrannical and insatia
ble national banks.
Furthermore, the Farmers’ Alliance de
manded that the .Government return to the
money-system devised by Franklin, Wash
ington, Hamilton, Jefferson, and Morris —the
system which is still the highest law of the
land, if the U. S. Constitution is law.
That system provided for the coinage of
both silver and gold, at a commercial ratio,
but on terms of 'monetary equality between
the two metals.
