National Alliance Demands Public Ownership and Currency Reform
A 1896 platform-pledge heavy document detailing the National Alliance program. It calls for public ownership of essential utilities, a national currency issued by the government, free coinage of silver and gold at 16 to 1, a graduated income tax, postal savings banks, and direct election of U S senators. It also urges initiative and referendum, land reform, and limits on corporate land holdings, with amendments and organizational rules. The article includes editor commentary urging readers to support Currency Reform and oppose the gold standard, urging a Republican alignment with independent reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wuerxas
United States
R. A. Southworts
Sec’y-Treas
I. U
Saipury
WV. C
Republican Committee
Republican Party
North Carolina
R L Brown
Unity and caution in the People's party reform movement
From Cabarrus County a Progressive Farmer correspondent urges unity and patience within the People's party. He warns against leadership divisions, promotes careful judgment, and urges use of best men in conventions to advance reform while stressing equal rights and avoiding political trickery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ellitor
Elitor
People’s Party
Reform
Fair Land
Alliance
Reform Movement
Wa Jusker
New Books on Economics and Finance From 25 Cent Clears
A list of inexpensive titles including Hypnotism Up To Date by Syd ney Flower and A History of the Panic of 1893 by J. W. Schuckers. Other works cover farming conditions, banking, coins, currency and reform filings from publishers in Chicago Minneapolis and New York. Prices are 25 cents each.
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Sydney Flower
Chas. H. Kerr & Co
Chicago
The
National Bimetallic Union
Monroe Street
Ill
J. W. Schuckers
Salman P. Chase
Lincoln
Treasury
H. E Taubeneck
Schulte Publishing Co
Deaborn St
James B . Goode
Chas, H. Kerr, & Co
C. B. Fenton
Chicago Sentinel Publishing Co
E A. Twitchell
Minneapolis
Dr. Holmes
McCormick
McCormick Corn Harvester
Pomona Hill Nurseries
Pomona
N. C
Iivensho O
Maine
Texas
J. van Lindley
Amendments To The Constitutions Of The National Alliance
Official amendments outline changes to the National Alliance constitutions including replacing economy with economics, changing to to by, replacing agricultural with industrial in section one, and substituting first with third in Article III Section 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guardian
Commencement Exercises At State Normal And Industrial School
The May commencement spans May 19 and 20 with a sermon by Rev. E A Yates of Durham and the unveiling of a life size Vance portrait by artist W G Randall. Hon R H Battle of Raleigh delivers recollections on Vance as a man and education promoter, with May 20 featuring remarks by Charles W Dabney and possible attendance by L M Curry. The event closes with a literary society entertainment. Surface cultivation to save soil moisture is discussed as a separate note on topsoil preservation.
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State Normal and Industrial School
E A. Yates
D. D
Durham
Vance
R. H. Battle
Raleigh
North Carolina
W. G. Randall
Charles W. Dabney
Agriculure
Washington, D. C
Dabney
University of Ter
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Rise
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Eckstein
Atlantic Bradley Brooklyn Jewett Ulster
Union Southern Shipman Collier
Missouri Red Seal Southern John T
WIS Bros.co
Philadelpha
Cleveland
Salers
Mrs
Buffalo
Louisville
Pure White Lee
National Leap Co
National Lead CO
Broadway
New
Matey
Page Woven Wire Fence CO
Adrian, Mich
Home Publishing Co
Maranville
DE Bos
LIONS
Wilson
Wilson Ear Drum CO
Trust Bldg
New York
Paris
Bryan Tyson
Isas
Maters
Wil
Ington
Raleigh, N.C
Tamoforrepy
Harman Poultry and Jock Farm
Thuruian
N.C
Rogey Mountain News
Denver
Colo
West
South
People's Advocate
Mississippi River
Pacific Coast
Per
the News Printing Co
Denver, Colo
Tars Peor
M.woolley
M.D. Auantroa
Whitebal St
Deana
Ada Lyon
Eealy
St. Gad Wabash
Ben Hill
Hicago House
Halsted Street
Southern Journal
Southern Real Estate Gazette
Main Street
Norfolk
eSee
Charles Spurgeon
Mary Singleton
D. H. Tuttle
Moseley
Pritchard
Carolinas
Georgia
Seaboard
Air Line
Suthern States
Geo. L. Rhodes
Seaboard Air Line
Portsmouth
E. S7. John
H. W. B. Glover
J. Anderson
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