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The Union Party's platform:
1.	America shall be self-contained and self-sustained: no foreign entanglements, be they political, economic, financial or military.
2.	Congress and Congress alone shall coin, issue and regulate all the money and credit in the United States through a central bank of issue.
3.	Immediately following the establishment of the central bank of issue, Congress shall provide for the retirement of all tax-exempt, interest-bearing bonds and certificates of indebtedness of the Federal Government, and shall refinance all the present agricultural mortgage indebtedness for the farmer and all the home mortgage indebtness for the city owner by the use fo its money and credit which it now gives to the control of private bankers.
4.	Congress shall legislate that there will be an assurance of a living annual wage for all laboreres capable of working and willing to work.
5.	Congress shall legislate that there will be assurance of production at a profit for the farmer.
6.	Congress shall legislate that there will be an assurance of reasonable and decent security for the aged, who, through no fault of their own, have been victimized and exploited by an unjust economic system which has so concentrated wealth in the hands of a few that it has impoverished great masses of our people.
7.	Congress shall legislate that Americna agricultural, industrial, and commercial markets will be protected from manipulation of foreign moneys and from all raw material and processed goods produced abroad at less than a living wage.
8.	Congress shall establish an adequate and perfect defense for our country from foreign aggression either by air, by land or by sea, but with the understanding that our naval, air and military forces must not be used under any consideration in foreign fields or in foreign waters either alone or in conjunction with any foreign power. If there must be conscription, there shall be conscription of wealth as well as a constription of men.
9.	Congress shall so legislate that all federal offices and positions of every nature shall be distributed through civil service qualifications and not through a system of party spoils and corrupt patronage.
10.	Congress shall restore representative government to the people of the United States to preserve the sovereignty of the individual States of the United States by the ruthless eradication of bureaucracies.
11.	Congress shall organize and institute federal works for the conservation of public lands, waters and forests, thereby creating billions of dollars of wealth, millions of jobs at the prevailing wages, and thousands of homes.
12.	Congress shall protect small industry and private enterprise by controlling and decentralizing the economic domination of monopolies, to the end that these small industries and enterprises may not only survive and prosper but that they may be multiplied.
13.	Congress shall protect private property from confiscation through unnecessary taxation with the understanding that the human rights of the masses take precedence over the financial rights of the classes.
14.	Congress shall set a limitation upon the net income of any individual in any one year and a limitation on the amount that such an individual may receive as a gift or as an inheritance, which limitation shall be executed through taxation.
15.	Congress shall re-establish conditions so that the youths of the nation as they emerge from schools and colleges may have the opportunity to earn a decent living while in the process of perfecting themselves in a trade or profession.
*David H. Bennett, Demagogues in the Depression, pp. 193-194*