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4 The 'platform,' as the Americans call it, upon which the entire party stands i.e. the length and breadth of their political creed, may be distinctly enunciated as follows.

(to pave the way for paid representatives.)
 * 1) Separation of Church and State.
 * 2) Abolition of the House of Lords.
 * 3) Abolition of the Laws of Primogeniture and Entail.
 * 4) Abolition of the Game Laws.
 * 5) Compulsory Sale and Partial or Total Confiscation of land in Ireland.
 * 6) Disestablishment of the Irish Church.
 * 7) Relinquishment and Abandonment of our Colonies.
 * 8) (Subordination in all things to America)
 * 9) Repeal of the union of Great Britain and Ireland.
 * 10) Divorce of religious training from our Universities and Schools.
 * 11) Manhood Suffrage.
 * 12) Female Suffrage.
 * 13) Vote by Ballot.
 * 14) Equal Electoral Districts.
 * 15) Throwing expenses of elections on the rates
 * 1) Legalizing Trades unions and the application of Protectionist principles to labour, &c.
 * 2) Opening places of amusement on the Sabbath.
 * 3) Socialism and Communism.

It is possible to affix to each of these principles the well known name of some Radical advocate