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Excerpt #2 Populist Party Platform
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We declare, therefore First-That the union of the labor forces of the United States this day shall
be permanent and perpetual
Second-Wealth belongs to him who creates it, and every dollar taken from industry without an
equivalent is robbery. "If any will not work, neither shall he eat." The interests of rural and civic labor
are the same, their enemies are identical
Third-We believe that the time has come when the railroad corporations will either own the people or
the people must own the railroads, and should the government enter upon the work of owning and
managing all railroads, we should favor an amendment to the Constitution by which all persons
engaged in the government service shall be placed under a civil-service regulation of the most rigid
character, so as to prevent the increase of the power of the national administration by the use of such
additional government employees,
FINANCE.—We demand a national currency, safe, sound, and flexible, issued by the general
government only, a full legal tender for all debts, public and private, and that without the use of
banking corporations, a just, equitable, and efficient means of distribution direct to the people...
• We demand a graduated income tax.
• We believe that the money of the country should be kept as much as possible in the hands of
the people, and hence we demand that all State and national revenues shall be limited to the
necessary expenses of the government, economically and honestly administered,
We demand that postal savings banks be established by the government for the safe deposit of
the earnings of the people and to facilitate exchange.
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TRANSPORTATION-Transportation being a means of exchange and a public necessity, the
government should own and operate the railroads in the interest of the people. The telegraph,
telephone, like the post-office system, being a necessity for the transmission of news, should be
owned and operated by the government in the interest of the people, not in the interests of capitalists.
LAND-The land, including all the natural sources of wealth, is the heritage of the people, and should
not be monopolized for speculative purposes, and alien (immigrant) ownership of land should be
prohibited. All land now held by railroads and other corporations in excess of their actual needs, and all
lands now owned by aliens (immigrants) should be reclaimed by the government and held for actual
settlers only
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