JOHX IDA VIS, CHAS. S. OAVIS, 



EDITOR. BUSINESS MANAGER. 



ESTABLISHED 1873 



THE LEADING 



-- INDEPENDENT PAPER 



IN KANSAS. 



EIGHT-COLUMN FOLIO. ^^^ 



PUBLISHED I RIBUNE. 



EVERY THURSDAY. 



OUR PLATFORM EPITOMIZED. 



LAND. We desire to secure to every industrious citizen a home, as 

 the highest result of free institutions. To this end we favor a graduated 

 land tax on all large estates (especially on those held for speculative pur- 

 poses), the reclamation of all unearned land grants, the settlement of all 

 Indian tribes upon lands in severally, and the immediate opening of all unoc- 

 cupied tracts to homesteaders; also laws preventing corporations from 

 acquiring real estate beyond the requirements of their business, and pre- 

 venting alien ownership of land. 



TRANSPORTATION. The means of communication and transporta- 

 tion should be owned or controlled by the people, as is the United States 

 postal system, and equitable rates everywhere established. 



MONEY. The establishment of a national monetary system by which 

 a circulating medium in necessary quantity, and full legal tender, shall issue 

 direct to the people, without the intervention of banks. Postal savings 

 banks should be established. We demand the prompt payment of the 

 national debt, and condemn the further issue of interest bearing bonds. 



LABOR. Arbitration should take the place of strikes in settling labor 

 disputes. Labor, the creator of capital, should be protected from the extor- 

 tion of centralized capital ; equal pay should be given for equal work to 

 both sexes and child labor should be abolished, allowing all children to 

 attend school regularly. 



TEMPERANCE. Excessive wealth resulting in luxury and idleness 

 on the one hand and excessive toil and poverty on the other, lead to intem- 

 perance and vice. The measures of reform here recommended will prove to 

 be the scientific solution of the temperance question. 



MISCELLANEOUS. The loss occasioned by the payment of purposely 

 depreciated paper currency to soldiers and sailors, should be made good to 

 them ; a graduated income tax should be levied ; United States Senators 

 should be elected by a direct vote of the people ; the employment of armed 

 men by private corporations should be prohibited. 



OUR WEAPONS IN THE FIGHT. The ballot in the hand of free men 

 and free women. 



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 containing platform in full. 



JOHN DAVIS & SONS, 



JUNCTION CITY, 



