1) Summarize the First Point.
All labor should be united forever.
2) Summarize the Second Point.
Whoever makes money should be able to keep it and businessmen and industry should not take it away. All laborers feel the same everywhere.
3) Summarize the Third Point.
They believe that the public should own railroads otherwise the railroad would have too much power and that if the government tries to stop them they will protest and demand that the government, under an amendment, should be strictly limited to prevent the rise of government power.
4) What monetary changes are called for?
They want money to be more flexible and
We demand a national currency, safe, sound, and flexible issued by the general government
only, a full legal tender for all debts, public and private, and that without the use of banking corporations; a
just, equitable, and efficient means of distribution direct to the people, at a tax not to exceed 2 per cent, per
annum, to be provided as set forth in the sub-treasury plan of the Farmers' Alliance, or a better system; also
by payments in discharge of its obligations for public improvements.
5) Who might be against these monetary changes?
6) What changes should the government make to help the people?
7) Who might be against these governmental changes?
All labor should be united forever.
2) Summarize the Second Point.
Whoever makes money should be able to keep it and businessmen and industry should not take it away. All laborers feel the same everywhere.
3) Summarize the Third Point.
They believe that the public should own railroads otherwise the railroad would have too much power and that if the government tries to stop them they will protest and demand that the government, under an amendment, should be strictly limited to prevent the rise of government power.
4) What monetary changes are called for?
They want money to be more flexible and
We demand a national currency, safe, sound, and flexible issued by the general government
only, a full legal tender for all debts, public and private, and that without the use of banking corporations; a
just, equitable, and efficient means of distribution direct to the people, at a tax not to exceed 2 per cent, per
annum, to be provided as set forth in the sub-treasury plan of the Farmers' Alliance, or a better system; also
by payments in discharge of its obligations for public improvements.
5) Who might be against these monetary changes?
6) What changes should the government make to help the people?
7) Who might be against these governmental changes?