Whereas other questions have
been presented for our consitleration,
we hereby submit the following, not
as a part of the platform of the Peo
ple's party, but as resolution ex
pressive of the sentiment of this con
vention: 1. Resolved, h at we demand a
free ballot and a fair count iu all
elections and pledge ourselves to
secure it to every legal voter without
Federal intervention through the
adoption by the State of the unper
verted Australian or secret ballot
system.
2. Resolved, hat the levenue
ueriveu irom a graduated income
.ax should be applied to the reduc
tion of the burden of taxation no
.esting upon the domestic indu-tries
of this country.
3. Resolved, hat we pledge our
support to fair and liberal pensions
to Ex-Uniou soldiers auel sailors,
4. Resolved, That we condemn
the fallacy of protecting American
labor under the present system,
which opens our ports to the pauper
and criminal classes of the world,
and crowets emt our wage-earners;
and we denounce the present ineffec
tive laws against contract labor, and
demand the further restriction of
undesirable immigration.
f. Resolved, That we cordially
sympathize with the effort of organ
ized workingmeu to shorten the
hours of labor and demand a rigid
enforcement of the existing eight
hour law on government work and
ask that a penalty, cliuse be added
to the said law.
