Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1889 — The Patriots' League of Benton County. [ARTICLE]

The Patriots' League of Benton County.

An organization bearing the name given in the above title, is being organized in Benton county. Its meetings are to be held quarterly and its first regular meeting to be on ths first Saturday in January. The organization is to consist qf one league in each township, with an advisory council of one member from each township league. Any person 18 years old and not a non-compis nor a deadbeat, is eligible to membership. * Their basis of action is put forth in the following principles: We believe in the divine right of each person to the full value of all the wealth he produces and therefore advocate: 1. Legislation against all monopolies, pools and trusts. 2. A graduated income tax, and its co-rdative, a graduated land tax. 3. Abolition of foreign ownership of our soil. 4. The government to resume its soveieign right to issue and control the volume of currency. 5. Government ownership of telephones, telegraphs and railroads.