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prompt conviction, and imposing such penalties as shall 

 secure the most perfect compliance with the law. 



* ' 3 That we demand the free and unlimited coinage 

 of silver. 



"4. That we demand the passage of laws prohibit- 

 ing the alien ownership of land, and that Congress take 

 early steps to devise some plan to obtain all lands now 

 owned by aliens and foreign syndicates ; and that all lands 

 now held by railroad 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. 



"5. Believing in the doctrine of 'equal rights to 

 all and special privileges to none,' we demand that taxa- 

 tion, National or State, shall not be used to build up one 

 interest or class at the expense of another. 



4 ' 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 revenues, National, State 

 or County, shall be limited to the necessary expenses of 

 the Government economically and honestly administered. 



U 6. That Congress issue a sufficient amount 'of 

 fractional paper currency to facilitate exchange through 

 the medium of the United States mail. 



"7. We demand that the means of communication 

 and transportation shall be owned by and operated in the 

 interest of the people as is the United States postal 

 system. 



1 ' For the better protection of the interests of the two 

 organizations, it is mutually agreed that such seals or 

 emblems as the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial 

 Union of America may adopt, will be recognized and pro- 

 tected in transit or otherwise by the Knights of Labor, 

 and that all seals and labels of the Knights of Labor will 

 in like manner be recognized by the members of the 



