local option, taxation, license or public control. The sale of liquors for medicinal and other legitimate uses should be controlled by the state, without profit, and with such regulations as will prevent fraud or evasion. 2. No citizen should be denied the right to vote on account of sex. THE FINANCES. 3. All money should be issued by the general government only, and without the Intervention of any private citizen, corporation or banking institution. It should be based upon the wealth, stability and integrity of the nation. It should be a full legal tender for all debts, public and private, and should be of sufficient volume to meet the demands of the country. And for the purpose of honestly liquidating our own out-standing coin obligations we demand the full and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1, without consultIng any one other nation. 4. The initiative and referendum and proportional representation should be adopted. PUBLIC LANDS. 5. Free land is the common heritage of the people, and should be preserved from monopoly and speculation. All unearned grants of land, subject to forfeiture, should be retained by the government, and no portion of the public domain should hereafter be granted except to actual settlers, continuous use being essential to tenure. OWNERSHIP OF RAILROADS, ETC. 6. Railroads, telegraphs and other natural monopolies should be owned and operated by the government, giving to the people the benefit of service and protecting them from all cost. TAXATION. 7. The national constitution should be so amended as to allow the national revenues to be raised by equitable adjustment of taxation on the properties and incomes of the people, and importation duties should be levied as a means of securing equitable commercial relations with other nations. 8. The contract convict labor system, through which speculators are enriched at the expense of the state, should be abolished. SUNDAY LAWS. 9. All citizens should be protected by law in their right to one day of rest in seven, without oppressing any who conscientiously observe any other than the first day of the week. 10. The American public schools, taught in the English language, should be maintained, and no public fund should be appropriated for sectarian institutions. ELECTION OF PRESIDENT. 11. The president, vice-president and United States senators should be elected by direct vote of the people. 12. Ex-soldiers and sailors of the United States army and navy, their widows and minor children, should receive liberal pensions, graded on disability and time of service, not merely as a debt of gratitude, but for service rendered in the preservation of the union. IMMIGRATION. 13. The immigration laws should be so secure as to exclude paupers and criminals. None but citizens of the United States should be allowed to vote in any state, and naturalized citizens should not vote until one year after naturalization papers have been issued. 14. Having herein presented our principles and purposes, we invite the co-operation and support of all citizens who are with us substantially agreed. SOCIALISTIC LABOR NATIONAL PLATFORM. Adopted at New York, July 9, 1896. PLATFORM. The socialistic labor party of the United States, in convention assembled, reasserts the inalienable rights of all men to life, liberty and the pursuit of happi ness. With the founders of the American republie we hold that the purpose of gov ernment is to secure every citizen in the enjoyment of this right; but in the light of our social conditions we hold, furthermore, that no such right can be exercised under a system of economic inequality, essentially destructive of life, of liberty and of happiness. With the founders of this republic we hold that the true theory of polities is that the machinery of government must be owned and controlled by the whole people; but in the light of our industrial development we hold, furthermore, that the true theory of economics is that the machinery of production must likewise belong to the people in common. To the obvious fact that our despotic system of economics is the direct opposite of our democratic system of politics can plainly be traced the existence of a privileged class, the corruption of government by that class, the alienation of public property, public franchises and public functions to that class, and the abject dependence of the mightiest of nations upon that class. Again, through the perversion of democracy to the ends of plutocracy, labor is robbed of the wealth which it alone produces, is denied the means of selfemployment, and, by compulsory idleness in wage slavery, is even deprived of the necessaries of life. Human power and natural forces are thus wasted, that the plutocracy may rule. Ignorance and misery, with all their concomitant evils, are perpetuated; that the people may be kept in bondage. Science and invention are diverted from their humane purpose to the enslavement of women and children. Against such a system the socialistic labor party once more enters its protest. Once more it reiterates its fundamental declaration that private property in the natural sources of production and in the instruments of labor is the obvious cause of all economic servitude and political dependence. The time is fast coming when, in the natural course of social evolution, this system, through the destructive action of its failures and crises on the one hand, and the constructive tendencies of its trusts and other capitalistic combinations on the other hand, shall have worked out its own downfall. We, therefore, call upon the wage workers of the United States, and upon all other honest citizens, to organize under the banner of the socialistic labor party into a class-conscious body, aware of its rights and determined to conquer them by taking possession of the public powers; so that, held together by an indomitable spirit of solidarity under the most trying conditions of the present class struggle, we may put a summary end to that barbarous struggle by the aboliton of classes, the restoration of the land and of all the means of production, transportation and distribution to the people as a collective body, and the substitution of the Co-operative Commonwealth for the present state of planless production, industrial war and social disorder; a commonwealth in which every worker shall have the free exercise and full benefit of his faculties, multiplied by all the modern factors of civilization. RESOLUTIONS. With a view to immediate Improvement in the condition of labor we present the following demands: 1. Reduction of the hours of labor in proportion to the progress of production, 2. The United States shall obtain possession of the railroads, canals, telegraphs, telephones and all other means of public transportation and communication; the employes to operate the same co-operatively under control of the federal government and to elect their own superior officers, but no employe shall be discharged for political reasons. 3. The municipalities shall obtain possession of the local railroads, ferries, water works, gas works, electric plants and all industries requiring municipal franchises; the employes to operate the same co-operatively under control of the municipal administration and to elect their own superior officers, but no employe shall be discharged for political reasons. 4. The public lands declared inalienable. Revocation of all land grants to corporations or individuals, the conditions of which have not been complied with. 5. The United States have the exclusive right to issue money. 6. Congressional legislation providing for the scientific management of forests and waterways, and prohibiting the waste of the natural resources of the country. 7. Inventions to be free to all; the inventors to be remunerated by the nation. 8. Progressive income tax and tax on inheritances; the smaller incomes to be exempt. 9. School education of all children under 14 years of age to be compulsory, gratuitious and accessible to all by public assistance in meals, clothing, books, etc., where necessary. 10. Repeal of all pauper, tramp, consipracy and sumptuary laws. Unabridged right of combination. 11. Prohibition of the employment of children of school age and the employment of female labor in occupations detrimental to health or morality. Abolition of the convict labor contract system. 12. Employment of the unemployed by the public authorities (county, city, state and nation). 13. All wages to be paid in lawful money of the United States. Equalization of woman's wages with those of men where equal service is performed. 14. Laws for the protection of life and limb in all occupations, and an efficient employers' liability law. 15. The people to have the right to propose laws and to vote upon all measures of importance, according to the referendum principle. 16. Abolition of the veto power of the executive (national, state and municipal), wherever it exists. 17. Abolition of the United States senate and all upper legislative chambers. 18. Municipal self-government. Universal and equal right 19. Direct vote and secret ballots in all elections. of suffrage without regard to color, creed or sex. holidays. The principle of proportional representation to be introduced. 20. All public officers to be subject to recall by their respective constituencies. 24 Uniform civil and criminal law throughout the United States. Administration of justice to be free of charge. Abolition of capital punishment. 41 THE CONGRESSIONAL AND LEGISLATIVE APPORTIONMENT. In force, 1896. CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS. (Chapter 483, Laws 1891.) Section 1. Until otherwise provided by law, the state of Wisconsin shall be divided into ten congressional districts, each of which shall be entitled to elect one representative in the congress of the United States, and the territory comprising each district shall be divided as follows: The counties of Racine, Kenosha, Walworth, Rock, Green and Lafayette shall constitute the first congressional district. The counties of Jefferson, Dodge, Dane and Columbia shall constitute the second congressional district. The counties of Adams, Juneau, Vernon, Sauk, Richland, Crawford, Grant and Iowa shall constitute the third congressional district. The 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 11th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th wards of the city of Milwaukee and the towns of Franklin, Greenfield, Lake and Oak Creek, in Milwaukee county, shall constitute the fourth congressional district. The counties of Sheboygan, Ozaukee, Washington and Waukesha, and the 10th and 13th wards of th city of Milwaukee and the towns of Granville, Milwaukee and Wauwatosa in Milwaukee county, shall constitute the fifth congresslonal district. The counties of Waushara, Marquette, Green Lake, Fond du Lac, Winnebago, Calumet and Manitowoc, shali constitute the sixth congressional district. The counties of Pepin, Eau Claire, Buffalo, Trempealeau, Jackson, Monroe and La Crosse, shall constitute the seventh congressional district. The counties of Wood, Portage, Waupaca, Outagamie, Brown, Kewaunee and Door, shali constitute the eighth congressional district. The counties of Clark, Taylor, Price, Ashland, Oneida, Lincoln, Marathon, Shawano, Langlade, Forest, Florence, Marinette and Oconto, shall constitute the ninth congressional district. The counties of Bayfield, Douglas, Burnett, Sawyer, Washburn, Polk, Barron, Chippewa, St. Croix, Dunn and Pierce, shall constitute the tenth congressional district. Section 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication. ASSEMBLY DISTRICTS. (Chapter 1-Special session Wisconsin Legislature, 1896.) Section 1. Until there shall be a new apportionment, the assembly districts of this state shall be constituted as follows: The county of Barron shall constitute an assembly district. The count of Door shall constitute an assembly district. The counties of Adams and Marquette shall constitute an assembly district. The counties of Buffalo and Pepin shall constitute an assembly district. district. The countles of Lincoln and Taylor shall constitute an assembly district. The counties of neida, Price and Vilas shall constitute an assembly district. Brown County: 1. The towns of Ashwaubenon, Howard, Pittsfield, Suamico, and the city of Green Bay shall constitute the first assembly district of Brown county. 2. The towns of Allouez, Bellevue, De Pere, Eaton, Glenmore, Green Bay, Holland, Humboldt, Lawrence, Morrison, New Denmark, Preble, Rockland, Scott and Wrightstown and the city of De Pere shall constitute the second assembly district of Brown county. Chippewa County. 1. The towns of Lafayette, Sigel, Tilden and Wheaton, the village of Cadott, and the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth and Tenth wards of the city of Chippewa Falls shall constitute the first assembly district of Chippewa county. 2. The towns of Anson, Arthur, Auburn, Big Bend, Bloomer, Cleveland, Colburn, Eagle Point, Edson, Flambeau, Lawrence and the First ward of the city of Chippewa Falls shall constitute the second assembly district of Chippewa county. Columbia County: 1. The towns of Arlington, Caledonia, Dekorra, Fort Winnebago, Lewiston, Lodi, Newport, Pacific and West Point and the village of Poynette and the city of Portage shall constitute the first assembly district of Columbia county. 2. The towns of Columbus, Courtland, Fountain Prairie, Hampden, Leeds, Lowville, Marcellon, Otsego, Randolph, Scott, Springvale and Wyocena and the villages of Pardeeville, Rio and the West ward of the village of Randolph, and the city of Columbus shall constitute the second assembly district of Columbia county. Dane County: 1. The towns of Blooming Grove, Burke, Dunn, Madison, Rutland and the city of Madison shall constitute the first assembly district of Dane county. 2. The towns of Albion, Bristol, Christiana, Cottage Grove, Deerfield, Dunkirk, Medina, Pleasant Springs, Sun Prairie, Vienna, Windsor, York and the villages of Deerfield and Sun Prairie and the city of Stoughton shall constitute the second assembly district of Dane county. 3. The towns of Berry, Black Earth, Blue Mounds, Cross Plains, Dane, Fitchburg, Mazomanie, Middleton, |