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associations as may be organized by the industrial classes 

 to improve their financial condition or promote their gen- 

 eral welfare. 



2. We demand that all the public lands be held in 

 small bodies, not exceeding 320 acres to each purchaser, 

 for actual settlers, on easy terms of payment. 



3. That large bodies of land, held by private indi- 

 viduals or corporations, shall be assessed for taxation at 

 such rates as they are offered to purchasers, on credit of 

 one, two or three years, in bodies of 160 acres or less. 



4. That, whereas, large bodies of our public lands 

 have been sold to foreign capitalists, thus tending to the 

 establishment of land aristocracy in this country, similar 

 to that which reduced the people of Ireland and other 

 monarchial governments to a condition of abject serfdom; 

 we demand the passage of laws forbidding the ownership 

 of lands by aliens, whose allegiance belongs to other 

 nations, and that the public domain be held as the heritage 

 of our own people and our childre'n after us. 



5. That all lands forfeited by railroads or other 

 corporations immediately revert to the government and be 

 declared open for purchase by actual settlers, on the same 

 terms as other public lands. 



6. We demand that all fences be removed, by force 

 if necessary, from public lands unlawfully fenced by cattle 

 companies, syndicates, or any other form or name of 

 monopoly. 



7. We demand the extinguishment of the public 

 debt of the United States by operating the mints to their 

 fullest capacity, in coining silver and gold, and the ten- 

 dering the same without discrimination to the public 

 creditors of the nation, according to contract. 



8. We demand the substitution of legal tender 

 treasury notes for the issues of National banks; that the 

 Congress of the United States shall regulate the amount 



