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4. We demand the passage of laws prohibiting alien ownership of 

 land, and that Congress take prompt action to devise some plan to 

 obtain all lands now owned by aliens and foreign syndicates ; and that 

 all lands now held by railroads and other corporations, in excess of such 

 as is actually used and needed by them, be reclaimed by the government, 

 and held for actual settlers only. Adopted. 



5. Believing in * the doctrine of equal rights to all, and special privi- 

 leges to none, we* demand 



a. That our national legislation shall be so framed in the future as not 

 to build up one industry at the expense of another. 



b. We further demand a removal of the existing heavy tariff tax from 

 the necessities of life that the poor of our land must have. 



c. We further demand a just and equitable system of graduated tax on 

 incomes. 



d. 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 

 national and State revenues shall be limited to the necessary expenses of 

 the government, economically and honestly administered. Adopted. 



6. We demand the most rigid, honest, and just State and national 

 governmental control and supervision of the means of public communi- 

 cation and transportation ; and if this control and supervision does not 

 remove the abuse now existing, we demand the government ownership 

 of such means of communication and transportation. Adopted. 



7. We demand that the Congress of the United States submit an 

 amendment to the Constitution, providing for the election of United 

 States Senators by direct vote of the people of each State. Adopted. 



Moved by Brother Livingston, that the report be adopted as a whole. 

 Carried. 



By Brother Davie of Kentucky : 



Whereas, There is now a bill known as the sub-treasury bill in the 

 hands of the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representa- 

 tives, which should have been reported and acted upon at the last ses- 

 sion, and which if enacted into law would bring the financial relief so 

 much needed by all classes and industries : therefore, be it 



Resolved, That this national convention of the Farmers' Alliance and 

 Industrial Union do most respectfully and earnestly ask that said bill be 

 enacted into law as soon as possible, or some other measure that will 

 carry out these principles and meet the necessities of the toiling masses. 



Adopted by a rising vote, four votes being cast against it. 



