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system of reduction of the import duty on manufactured 

 cottons, in such a way as to do justice to this, the greatest 

 of all classes of producers. 



14. We demand such a revision of the tariff as will 

 lay the heaviest burdens on the luxuries, and the lightest 

 on the necessaries of life, and as will reduce the incomes 

 from imports to a strictly revenue basis. 



15. That as a remedy against the unjust accumula- 

 tion and encroachment of capital we demand a graduated 

 income tax. 



1 6 That as upon the intelligence of the people depend 

 the stability and perpetuity of our own free government, 

 we demand for the masses a well-regulated system of indus- 

 trial and agricultural education. 



17. That we oppose the continued influx of pauper 

 labor from the monarchies of Europe, whose anarchic 

 views and communistic doctrines are breeding discontent 

 and disloyalty to law, order, peace and good government, 

 and by an overplus of worthless labor, reducing our own 

 laboring classes to starvation, we therefore demand more 

 stringent laws to prevent this country being further used 

 as an asylum for the communists and paupers of other 

 countries. 



1 8. We demand that the Constitutions, both State 

 and National, be so amended as to provide for tne election 

 of United States Senators by direct vote of the people. ' ' 



C. W. Macune was elected president, and much 

 important business was transacted at this meeting, the 

 details of which would prove of but little interest to the 

 reader. New life and vigor was infused into the Order 

 and hundreds of business enterprises have been organized 

 as a result. The next meeting of the National Alliance 

 was held at Meridian, Mississippi, December 5, 1888. 

 Thirteen States were represented by full delegations. One 

 of the objects of this meeting was to consolidate with the 



