Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1890 — FARMERS IN CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

FARMERS IN CONVENTION.

No Substitutes Wanted for Government Bonds. At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Kansas Farmers’ Alliance and State Grange, held a for the purpose of ! founding a basis of union for the two or ganizations, a platform was adopted, whioh says: “We demand that no class of securities shall be substituted for Government bonds as a basis of security for national bank notes for the purpose of perpetuating the national bank system in that no more national banks shall be chartered, and no charters now in existence shall be renewed; that legal-tender treasury notes be issued by the Government in lieu of national bank notes when such national bank notes shall be retired; that the volucne shall be increased sufficiently to meet the demand of the business Interests of the country, and that they be made a full legal-tender for all debts, both public and private. i We demand the free and unlimited coinage of silver, or the issue of silver certificates against the unlimited deposit of bullion, which certificates shall be a legal tender for all debts, both public and private ; we demand that congress shall pass such laws as shal. effectually prevent the dealings in futures in agricultural and mechanical productions; wejdemand the passage of laws prohibiting alien ownership of land, and that congress take early action to devise soihe plan to obtain all lands now owned by alien and foreign syndicates, and that all lands now held hy railroads and other corporations in excess of such as are actually used oand needed by them be reclaimed by the Government ana held fdr actual settlers* The liquor war in Banger is assuming a lively pbase. It is a kind of Bangorilla warfare, so to speak.