Our Presidents and how we make themMcClure, Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly)
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Our Presidents and how we make them
McClure, Alexander K. (Alexander Kelly)
Presidents -- United States -- Election
3. The public lands being the natural inheritance of the people, we
denounce that policy which has granted to corporations vast tracts of
land, and we demand that immediate and vigorous measures be taken to
reclaim from such corporations, for the people’s use and benefit, all
such land grants as have been forfeited by reason of non-fulfilment
of contract, or that may have been wrongfully acquired by corrupt
legislation, and that such reclaimed lands and other public domain
be henceforth held as a sacred trust, to be granted only to actual
settlers in limited quantities; and we also demand that the alien
ownership of land, individual or corporate, be prohibited.
4. We demand Congressional regulation of interstate commerce. We
denounce “pooling,” stock watering, and discrimination in rates and
charges, and demand that Congress shall correct these abuses, even, if
necessary, by the construction of national railroads. We also demand
the establishment of a Government postal telegraph system.
5. All private property, all forms of money and obligations to pay
money, should bear their just proportion of the public taxes. We
demand a graduated income tax.
6. We demand the amelioration of the condition of labor, by enforcing
the sanitary laws in industrial establishments, by the abolition
of the convict labor system, by a rigid inspection of mines and
factories, by a reduction of the hours of labor in industrial
establishments, by fostering educational institutions, and by
abolishing child labor.
7. We condemn all importations of contracted labor, made with a view
of reducing to starvation wages the workingmen of this country, and
demand laws for its prevention.
8. We insist upon a constitutional amendment reducing the terms of
United States Senators.
9. We demand such rules for the government of Congress as shall place
all representatives of the people upon an equal footing, and take away
from committees a veto power greater than that of the President.
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