Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1869-09-08

/ posed errors in public policy. In this
| YOU may be desiTOUS of initiating the
example of the late Republican Prcsi-
/ dent, Andrew johnson, in his cOntrO-
| veTsy with Congress as to their measures
/ of policy. Let the custom once be es-
| tablished and sanctioned by public
/ opinion, of the prOpriCty of one depart
ment cenSuring another, and we may
/ look for mutual ordinations, until all
respect for the Government itself shall be
lost.
am, respectfully your fellow-citi-
zen. RALPH LEETE.
The National Labor Congress.
The National Labor Congress, held at
Philadelphia, closed its session on Sat
urday 2Sth ult. The next Congress is to
be held on the third Monday of August
! 1870 at Cincinnati. We give below the
more important resolutions in full,
touching the issues involved in the cam
paign in Ohio.
Resolved, That labOrers in all depart
ments of useful industry are suffering
from a system of monetary laws which
were enacted during the war as meas
uTes, it was assumed necessary to the
| life of the nation" and is now sought to
be DeTDetTated in the interests of
bOndhOlders and bankers, as means to
subveTt the government of our fathers
and establish on its ruins an empire in
which all the political power shall be
! centralized, to restrain and Oppress the
| rights of labor, and subordinate its vO-
| taries to the merciless demands of ag-
| gregated capital and sUpeTciliOUs author
| ity.
Resolved, That the national banking
| system, being inimical to the spirit of
| liberty, and subversiVe of the principles
of justice, and without warrant in the
Constitution of the United States, and
wTOngfully increasing the burdens of the
weath-pTOducing classes millions of dol
| lars annually, Justice, the aspirations of
| honest industry, and thespiTit of imper-
| illed liberty demands its immediate re-
/ peal and the substitution of legal tender
notes as the exclusive currency Of the
nation.
Resolved, That the 'rNatiOnaI Labor
| UniOnn is opposed to the continuation
and creation of banks by acts of ineOr-
pOratiOn, by either State or national au-
| thOrity, with the privilege of making or
| issuing, or putting in circulation any
notes, bills, or other paper of any other
bank to circulate as money, except the
| illegal tender Treasury notes" therein
contemplated.
! Resolved, That the presnt rate of in
! terest is in excess of, and disprODOrtiOn-
| ate to, the increase of national wealth,
and, being the governing power in the
/ distribution of the products of capital
and labor, is oppressive to the produce
! ing classes.
! Resolved, That the revenue laws of
! the Uuited States should be altered so
| that, instead of subOrdinating labor to
capital, they may afford just protection
| to labor and the industrial interests of
the whole country.
| Resolved, That the legal tender mon
| ey should be made legal tender in
| the payment of all debts, public and
| private, and convertible at the option
of the holder into the government bonds,
bearing interest ut the rate of three per
cent. per annUm, with privilege to the
holders to convert the bonds into money
or the money into bonds, at pleasure.
Resolved, That the claim of the bond
holders that the bonds which were
bought with Greenbacks, and the princi-
pal of which is by law payable in cur
rency, should nevertheless be paid in
gold, is unjust and eXtOrtiOnate.
Resolved, That the exemption from
tax of bonds and securities is q violation
Of the just principle of revenue laws.
1t will be seen by reference to the
foregoing resolutions, that upon the
great issues of the day the voice of La
Dor is substantially in harmony with
the Democratic party Of Ohio, and, i'm
fact, with the Democracy of the entire
country. There is a perfect agreement
on all essential points. The Labor Con- |
gress denOunces the exemption from tax
of national bonds and securities as a vi |
OlatiOn of the first principle of revenue
laws The Democratic Platform of |
Ohio resolves That the exemption from |
taxation of twenty-five hundred mill |
lions OfdOllars in government bonds and |
securities is unjust to the people and |
ought not to be tolerated. The Labor |
Platform demands the abolition Of the |
National Banking system, and the sub
stitution Of legal tender notes as the
uniform currency Of the nation
The Democratic platform denounces
the National banking system rs one of !
the worst oUtgrOwths of the bonded |
debt, i'll that it unnecessarily increases |
the burden of the people thirty millions !
of dollars annually, and demands its /
immediate repeal"
The Labor platform dCnOunces as un- |
just and eXtOTtiOnate the claim of the |
bOndhOlders, that the bonds which were |
bought with greenhacks and the prin- /
cipal Of which is by law payable in cur |
rency, should nevertheless be paid i'm |
gold.
The Ohio platform says: "That the |
claims of the bOndhOlders that bonds |
bought with greenbacks, and the prin- |
eipal of which is by law payable i'm cur !
rency, should nevertheless be paid i'm |
gold, is unjust and eNtOrtiOnate. and ifI
persisted in will inevitably force upon
the people the question of reputation. ~ |
The labor platform cOndems the land /
monopoly schemes perfected and car /
red out by the party in power, and holds !
that the public domain should he distri- |
buted IN reasonable quantities to Amer /
lean citizens and all who declare their /
intentions to become such.
The Ohio platform resolves that the
Democratic party Of the United States
has always been prc-emincntly friend
ly to the rights and interests of the la
boring man; that it is in favor of lin
tied number Ofhours OflaLorin all Gov
ernment workshOps-hOUrs dictated bv
and mental well being ofthe
labOrers; that it is i'm favor of the most
liberal grants of land from the public
domain to actual settlers without cost,
and opposed to donating these lands to
swindling railroad corporations, and is
generally friendly to the measures adj
vocatCd by the Labor and Industrial
Congress, and as Il party, it pledges, i'll
restored To power, IFS influence to give
them practical application.
In an article Onthis subject. the Roch-
ester Union says: "In view wofthis pruc-
teal agreement i'm principle upon the
Public Money, tho Public Debt, the Pub
lie Taxes, and the Public Lands, it was
wise in the Labor Congress TO Indefinite !
ly postpone the subject of a now pOliti-
cal party, which was introduced bv
some of its member. With the Demo- :
cratic party, now triumphantly march
ing into power, arraycd I'm full force up- q
Dn every line of the quadrilateral form /;
,d by the four positions given above, i'll
would be folly, an act Of suicide, for the ,
to separate themselves !
rom the main body which occunies |
common ground, and move off hy de =
-achmcnt as a third party, to he over
loWcd by the common enemy. Con-
'cntrating their forces, the Democracy
md the Workngmcn possess the ]