Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1873-08-22

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The following are the resolutions
adopted by the SO called Anti-M
nopoly State Convention last week.
at Des Moines:
WHEREAS: Political parties are
formed to meet public emergencies,
and when they have discharged the
duty which called them into being
they may become the means Of
abuses as gross as those they were
organized. to reform, Now
WHEREAS: Both the old polit.
ical parties have discharged the OBJ.
legations assumed at their organiza.
tion and being no longer potent as
instruments for the reform eff abuses
which have grown up in them,
therefore we deem it inconsistent to
attempt to accomplish a political
reform by acting with and in such
organizations, therefore
Resoloed, That we, in this Free
Convention, do declare as the basis
of our further political action.
LIST. That all corporations are
subject to legislative control; that
those created by Congress should
be restricted and controlled by
Congress, and those under State
laws should be subjected to the
control respectively Of the States
creating them.
That such legislative control
should be in express abrogation OF
the theory of the inalienable nature
of their chartered rights and that it
should at all times be SO used as to
prevent the monled corporations
from becoming engines of Cypress
ion.
That the property of all corpora
tons should be assessed by the
same officers and taxed at the same
rate as the property of individuals.
That the legislature of Iowa
should by law fix maximum rates of
freight to be charged by the rail-
roads Of the State, leaving them tree
to compile below the rates.
That we favor snch modification
of our banking system as will extend
its benefits to the whole people, and
thus destroy monopoly now en-
joyed by favored few.
That we demand a general re.
vision Of the present tariff laws,
that shall give us free salt, iron,
lumber and cotton and wooden fab
RIGS, and reduce the whole system
to a revenue basis only.
That we will not, knowingly,
nominate any bad men to office, nor
give place to persistent seekers
therefor, but will freely seek for
ourselves competent officers, as
heretofore prominent political lead.
ers have sought office for them
selves, and that we will nominate
only those who are known to be
faithfully in sympathy with these
declarations, and will at the polls
repudiate any candidate known to
be unfit or incompetent.
That we demand the repeal of the
back salary law and the return to
the U. S. Treasury of all money re-
Hereunder, by the members
Of the last Congress, and
Of members of the present Con-
gress we demand a repeal Of the
Jaw increasing salaries, and the
fixing of a lower and more reason
able compensation for public
officers believing that until the pub
lie debt is paid and the public bur-
den lightened, the salaries of our
public servants should be more in
proportion to the rewards of labor
in private life.
That we are opposed to all future
grants of lands to railroads and
other corporations, and believe that
the public domain should be held
sacred to actual settlers, and are in
favor of law by which each hon
orably discharged soldier or his
heirs may use such discharge in
any government land Office in full
any government land Office in full
payment for quarter section of un-
appropriated lands.
That public officers who betray
their pledges or trust are unworthy
of renewed confidence and those
who crlminally trifle with public
funds must be punished as criml.
nails, regardless of their previous
influence or the political Importance
of their bondsmen.
That we are in favor of a strict
construction of our Constitution by
our Supreme and other Courts and
are opposed to the exercise Of all
doubtful powers by judicial or other
officers.
Resolved, That in the corrupt
Tammany steal, the Credit Mobilier
fraud, the Congressional salary
swindle and official embellishments,
and the hundreds of other COM
binations, steals, frauds and
swindles, by which Democratic and
Republican legislators, Congress-
men and office-holders have enrich
ed themselves, defrauded the coun-
try and impoverished the people,
we find the necessity of Independent
action, and the Importance of united
effort, and cordially invite all men
of whatever calling, business trade
or vocation, regardless of all past
political views, to join us in re-
moving the evils that so seriously
affect us all.
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