While our sympathies as a party
of reform are jQaturally upon the
side of every proposition which will
tend to make men intelligent, vir
tuous and temperate, we neverthe
less regard these ejuestions impor
tant as they are, as feecondary to the
great issue now pressing for solution,
and upon which not only our indi
vidual prosperity but the very ex
istence of tree institutions depend,
and we ask all men to first help us
to determine whether we are to have
a republic to administer before we
differ as to the conditions upon which
it is to be administered, believing
that the forces of reform this day
organized will never cease to move
forward until every remdied and
eeal rights and equal deivileges se
curely established for all the men
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c. we demand a grauuaieu in
come tax.
d. We believe that the money of
the count rv should be kept as much
is possible in. the hands of the peo
ple, and hence we demand that an
Slate and national levenue shall be
limited to the necessary expenses oi
the government, economically and
honestly administered,
1, We demand that postal sav
ings bauds be established by the
government for the safe deposit ot
the earnings of the people and to
facilitate exchange.
" rPi, ,i w , .. vt . t i . . ii tiiiinif u tin. .'in..
of change and a public necessity,
the government should own and
operate the railroads in the interest
of the people.
a. 1 he telegraph and telephone,
like the post-office system, being a
necessity for the transportation ot
news, should be owned and operated
in by the government in the iuteri st
of the people.
