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of such issue by per capita circulation, that shall' increase 

 and keep pace with the growth of the country's popula- 

 lation and the expansion of her business interests. We 

 further demand the repeal of the present National banking 

 system. 



9. We demand that the Department of Agriculture 

 be made one of the Departments of State; that it shall be 

 increased in scope and efficiency, and in connection there- 

 with, there shall be established a bureau of labor statistics. 



10. We demand the enactment of laws to compel 

 corporations to pay their employes, according to contract, 

 in lawful money for their services, and the giving to 

 mechanics and laborers a first lien upon the products of 

 their labor to the extent of their full wages. 



11. That the law relating to the suppression of the 

 transmission of immoral, profane or obscene literature 

 through the mails be made more stringent, and be extended 

 so as to suppress the transmission of such literature by 

 any public carrier. 



12. We demand that the United States government 

 purchase, by right of eminent domain, the telephone and 

 tel-egraph lines, and operate them as adjuncts of the 

 United States postal service. 



13. That in view of the fact that the delegates to 

 this body represent a majority of the cotton producers of 

 the cotton belt of America, which belt produces over two- 

 thirds of the cotton of the whole world, and in view of 

 the further fact that two-thirds of the cotton in the cotton 

 belt is demanded and used for export to a foreign power, 

 which fixes the price on every pound of our cotton; and. 

 in view of the fact that the said power is debarred from 

 returning to this country a single yard of manufactured 

 cotton, thereby making said power interested in crowding 

 down to the lowest figure the price of cotton, we hereby 

 demand that the United States government adopt a speedy 



