From their 1863 constitution, which set out a platform with this goal:
“To stimulate the political education of the members, to understand their political rights and use the ballot intelligently to the end that the government may be a government of, for and by the people and not be used as a tool to further the ends of combinations of capital for its own aggrandizement.”
“To stimulate the political education of the members, to understand their political rights and use the ballot intelligently to the end that the government may be a government of, for and by the people and not be used as a tool to further the ends of combinations of capital for its own aggrandizement.”