People's Pilot, Volume 2, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1893 — THE DEMANDS. [ARTICLE]

THE DEMANDS.

A County Alliance Indorsee Demands that Are Good Enough as Far as They Go, The Franklin county alliance, at the regular April meeting, passel the following resolutions: Resolved, That we indorse the sentiment expressed in the demands recommended by the National Watchman, in an able editorial of March 29, 1893; which were as follows: “We demand the free and unlimited Coinage of gold and sll•ver at the present ratio of 16 to 1. We demand! that this amount of gold and silver shall bo supplemented with a full legal tender paper money in sufficient volume to maintain equitable prices. We demand that all money shall; be issued bv the government direct to the peo-, pie, and that all money so issued shall be a full legal tender for all debts, private or public." J. L. Chandler, William E Kibbk, Secretary. President. These demands are all right enough as far as they go, but they do not go far enough. No party will ever achieve permanent success on so narrow a basis. We agree that it is not necessary to cover every proposition of reform in a political platform, but there are certain things which are essential and cannot be omitted with impunity. Transportation, government savings banks, and everlasting antagonism to plutocracy and capitalism, and the means they employ to control parties and rob the people, are among these essentials, and any effort to narrow the platform to the lines indicated will, in our judgment* be unavailing —Topeka Advocate.