The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1868-11-07
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We hold tAsssI truakSi1o IsSaSH. 8fhAk,
Nat all people are created equal, thas they ere
endowed by Their Qr@tor With vsE1ain ina
fIenable rights that among thern are life,
liberty apd the pursuit Of happiness; that
% secure these rights govsrnments Ara Id
stituted among men, deriving their just
bowers fromStkS consent Or tAegosermDd.
That there are but two pure forms Of gov
ernihent, thsAutocrxtis ard = Democsntio;
undr ne forme ths VII q Tho hdivtlusl
sovereign 10 Che supreme Law, under me lat
ter the sovereignty 10 vested In the whole
people, all other forms being q modification
of the one o. the other of these pEinciples,
and tkak ultimately one o. tie other o.
these forms must prevail throughout ell
civilized nations, and It 10 now for the Amer
lean people 20 determine which Of, these pFip-
ciples ashall triumph.3 Si14 N1f SIT
That the design Of the founders OF the Re-
public was 10 ihstitutel Rovefnmetku p0M
the principle Of absolute intercept sovereign
~ Of Ne people, and that would .KfNe %
each citizen the largest political and religi-.
Gus liberty compatible with the good order:
OF society, and secnre to each the right to
tnjsy the fruits OF his lshor and ]aIents /
that when laws are enacted des.r, live OF
these ends, they are without moral binding
force, and il IL the right and duty Of the
people to alter, amend or abolish them, and
institute such others, founuing them upon
the principles Of equity, a. to them may
seem most likely to effect their prosperity
Prudence will indeed dictate that import
ant laws long established should Got be
changed for light and transient causee, and
experience has shown that the American
people are more disposed 70 suffer while
evils are suifsrable, shan to change the
forms and laws TO which they have been Ae-
customsd- Bat when . long train Of legis-
uve abuses, pursuing invariably the same
object, evinces design 70 subvert The spirit
Of frssdom and equality upon which our in
stitutions are founded, and reduce them to
Q state Of sefsisude. it Is their risht--it is
their duty to sboiish such Aws and provide
new guards for their future security. Such
has been the patient Suffering Of the wealth
producing classes OF the United States, and
such is now the necessity which constrains
them 10 put forth m organized and united
effort for maintaining their natural rights,
which are imperiIled by the insidious
schemes and unwarranted aggression Of un-
scrupuious bankers And asurers by means Of
unwise and corrupt legisIAtlon. #saa \.
We further hold--Thst all property or
wealth Is the product of physical or intel
lectual labor, employed in productive indus
try and in the distribution Of the produc-
lions Of labor that laborers ought Of right,
and would, under q just NOR .lsFy syslem
receive or retain the larger proportion Of
their productions that the wrongs, oppres-
sIons and destination which laborers are suf-
fering in most departments of legitimate en-
terprise and useful occupation, do not re-
suit from insufhciency Of production but
from the unfair disuibutiop Of the products
Of labor between non producing capital and
labor.
That money is the medium Of distribution
TO nou- reproducing capital and producing la
Dor, the rate Of interest," determining what
proportion Of the products Of laber shall be
awarded to capital for its use, and what 70
labor for its productions that the power to
make money and regulate its value is an
essential attribute Of sovereignty, the exer-
cise Of which is by the Constitution OF she
United States wisely and properly granted to
Congress, and it is the imperative duty oI
Congress to institute il upon srrh a wiss
and just basis that il shall be directly under
the control Of the sovereign people who pro-
duce the value IL 10 designed to represent,
measure and exchange, that il may be cor.
rect and uniform standard Of value, and dis
tribule the products Of labor eouitablV be-
tween capital al labor according to the
service or labor performed in their produc-
ton.
That the law enacting the so-called Na-
tional Banking system is a delegation by
Congress Of the sovereign mower to max
money and regulate it's value to q class OF
irresponsible banking associations, thereby
giving to them the power to control the value
OF all the property ia the nation, and to fix
the rewards Of labor in every department OF
industry, and is inimical to the spirit OF
liberty and sUbversive Of the principles of
Justice upon which our democratic repub-
ticaa Institutions are founded, AID without
variant in the Constitution Justice, reason
and sound policy demands It's immediate re-
peal and the substitution of legal-tender
Treasury u tes as the exclusive currency Of
the nation. tt4
ThR this money monopoly IL the parent
Of all monopOliss-the very root and essence
of slsvary- railroaGs, warehouses and ali
other monopolies, Of whatever kind or na-
ture, are the outgrowth Of and subservient
to this power, and the means used by il 10
rob the enterprising, industrial wealth pro-
ducing classes Of the products of their ual-
ents and labor. + . .Fa
That as Government is instituted to pro-
tect life and secure the rights Of property,
each should share it's Just and proper pro-
i.ortion OF the burthens and sseri6ees
necessary for its maintenance and perpetui-
tY, and that the exemption from taxation of
bank capital and government bonds, bearing
double and bankruptIng rates of interest, is
species OF dangerous and uojust class leg
islation opposed to the spirit Of our institu-
tions, and contrary to the principles of sound
mortality and enlightened reason.
That our monetary, financial aud revenue
laws are in letter and spirit opposed 30 the
principles 5f freedom and eqhel;iy upon
which our democratic republican institutions
are founded, there 10 in ali their provisions
manifestiy . studied design to shield non.
producing capital from its just proportion of
the burthens necessary for the support Of
the Government, imposing them manly on
the industrial wealth producing classes,
sNoteUJ 'oOAsAcu1uAt6 tucm 10 tiIVSS OF I'M
remunerated toll, depriving them Of the or
binary conveniences and comforts Of life !;
Of the time and mesns necessary for social
enjoyment, intellectual culture and moral
improvement; and ultimately reducing them
TO q state Of practical servitude.
: We further hold that while these un-
righteous laws of distribntion remain in
Forces laborers cannot, by any system Of
CT eo-opsration,- secure Ebeir
natural rights. That She first and mesa inn
portant step towards the establishment Of
the rights Of labor, 10 the institution of
system Of true eo-opefstion between non
producing capital and labar. That r. eject
this most desirable eeject, money, tbs medi-
um Of distribstioH TO capital and labor, must
be ms tuted upon such . wise and Just prin-
cipie thaeisstesd of being O power 20 cen-
tralixe the wealth In the hands of few
bankers, Insurers, middlemen and non-pro-
incsrs generally, il shsll hta power that