The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-08-27

report. JOHN Mc'tWIRE'
1 dissent from that part Of the report
that indorses the suggestion with regard
to the necessity Of political organization.
81 Wear.
The report was appropriately re-
ferred, after which the Congress adj
iourned to 2 o'clock p. M.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Congress reassembled at two
O'Clock precisely, President Trevellick
in the chair.
MINORITY REPORT ON Presidents
ADDRESS.
Mr.. Magwire, Of Missouri, submitted the
following minority report on the Presidents
address
The minority report on the Presidents
address, referred to special committee OF
five members to report on the parts thereof
which point out the wrongs under which
ar erican labor suffers, and which touch
On the remedy for these serious evils, re-
spectfully state that it is super6uous to
elaborate in glowing periods upon the fallen
condition of the American laborer, without
a homestead, stripped of bis heritage, and
often denied the means Of his subsistence
for his children, by the refusal Of the pri-
vilege even to work.
For years these wrongs have been hawksd
about in print and defamation, as beggars
hawk their stores, without . word of sub
stantial value to redeem them. When is
the sentence spoken or written hitherto that
tells us in true words what are tie evils
and what the remedies They are not
upon record, but q mass Of vspid, declar-
story statements of suffering, With which
every one is fully acquainted, is served up
periodically to the public. for what pur-
pose, except show, no earnest man can
tell,
Paupsrism and usury are the social evils
Of the American people, which. if not re-
medied, their form of government must
necessarily alter.
Free homesteads and free money are the
provisions, and the only ones. by which
paupery and usury, which Cypress men
more than all other evils Of life, are era
dictated.
First. Free homesteads, or q suf6cieAcy
Of the soil to every American citizen az
bis heritage, of which be can not be de-
prived by his own act or by the act Of bis
agent-the Congress; on the ground that
individual pauperism is public infirmity
and must be prohibited for the common
welfare an American citizen shall not be
allowed to be pauper, not merely for bis
own sake. but because the public interest
demands it.
Second. Free money, or q suficiency
Of the money token; the representation Of
wealth to every American citizen, furnished
on the security Of his wealth by his agent
the Government, without the interposition
of middle-men, called banks, and at the
cost merely Of the issue Of the token, thus
money interest or usury is done away with,
the curse and ruin Ct nations and peoples,
which feeds the blindest, The most insatiate
and the most besOtted appetite of mans
vilest ambition, denounced by reason and
religion, by pagan sages, by Christian saints,
as well as by the Arabian chief to all bis
followers
If the National Labor Union Of America
combine in the enactment by fundamental
laws, free homestesds and of free money, the
plain and radical remedies of the grievances
which stop the American laborer of the
heritage to which be is born, and Of the
profits of the toll to which be is reduced to
earn scanty subsistence for bis support
the purposes of the organization of Ibis
Union are accomplished, and the perpetuity
Of the Republic is secured otherwise the
aristocfacy into which we are fast drifting
from the same cause which have always
created that form of government hitherto
without fail, will, before the end Of another
century, be the fate Of the American
people.
Respectfully submitted by
JOHN MAawIRE, of Missouri,
Member Of the Committee.
On the motion the above was laid on the
table.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
At the re-assembling of the Con
gress the President announced the fol-
lowing additional committees:
On Finance-William T. Mccarthy,
of Pennsylvania; Jno. O'Donahoe, Of
New York; William Z. Owens, of I'LL
nois J. F. Flanagan, of Ohio Robert
Hold gkins, of Michigan.
On Resolutions-Mes Wolff, Nc
Lean, Mrs. Hathaway and Mr.. Latham.
Mr.. Hugh Cameron, Executive Off
Ger Of the State OF Kansas, submitted
the following report:
Mr. President and Members of The
National Labor Congress-Tbe Executive
for the State of Kansas begs leave to sub
NIT the following report.
During the past year, under the auspices
Of the State Labor Union, and by the as
sistance of the distinguished President and
the worthy Secretary Of that organization
twenty-one local Unions have been started
in this State, and there is to-day not less
than two thousand voters regularly en-
rolled under the Labor Reform banner
More than one-half Of the number re.
side in the counties Of Crawford and
Cherokee, the remainder being divided
between the counties of Bourbon, Leaven.
worth, Shawnee and Jefferson.
An official organ, The Working-man'c
Journal published by the Cherokee
Neutral Land Printing Company. and
edited by the Honorable Amos Sanford,
established at the time the State Union was
formed, is now on paying basis and the
Peoples indicator published at Girard,
Crawford County, and edited by P. R
Crisp & Co.. promises TO aid the Journal
in guarding, or in other words. organizing
the working mans party; and also the
Topeka Record, a daily and weekly. and
the most ably conducted newspaper in the
State, has stood manfully by on nearly al
important occasions, and in the near future
will, it is believed, plant itself squarely
upon the National Union Labor platform.
All this and more hns been achieved by
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