The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-06-11


Unlimited re.ourcss, with the land an
nuslly groaning beneath the products
OF human effort, the mass OF the people
have no supply beyond their daily wants;
compelled from unjust conditions
in sickness and misfortune TO become
paupers. Pauperism and crime are The
perplexing questions OF all modes OF
craftsmanship, and it is with these we
have to deal. How far these evils are
con nected with the abuses lnti'cled on
labor superficial power seems not to
perceive. Cbattle slavery has been
abolished, bu, the rights and relations
of labor stand just where they did be-
fore the emancipation. In respect 10
the divisions OF its products the differ
ences lies only in the methods OF ao-
stractipg the results and concentrating
tn em in the hand of g few capitalists.
Capital is now the master and dictates
the terms, AMI thus all laborers are
practically placed in the same condltIon
as the slave before his emancipation.
In thus placing them the interest oil
all laborers become common, and they
must fight the battle in unity it they
would succeed. What, then, are the
instrum ntalites by which these
wrongs are inflicted?
|. The banking and monied monop-
olies by which, through rulnous
rates OF interest, the products
of human labor are concentrated
iu the hands OF non-producers This is
the great central source OF these
wrongs 10 and through which all the
other monopolies exist and operate.
,. Consolidated railroads and other
transit monopolies, whereby all indus,
tries are taxed TO the last mill they will
bear for the benefit of the stockholders
and stock jobbers. 3. Manufacturing
monopolies, whereby all small opera
tions are crush ed out aud the price OF
labor and products are determined with
m mathematical certainty in the Interest
Of the capitalists. 4. Aud monopoles
by which the public domain is absorb
ed by a few corporations and specu a.
tors. 6. Commercial aud grain mo-.
nopolies, enriching the bIoated corpo-
rstious On human necessities. 3. Its
original purpose is, as far as possible, to
remedy these evils and remove their
result. : lst, by abandoning the gold
basis and establishing monetary sys-
tenn based ou the iaith aud re-
sources OF the government and
the nation, in harmony with
the genius OF the government and
adapted 10 the exigeucies OF legitimate
com nm.rce, and to this end the clrcu-
lstins outes OF the National and State
banks as we'll as all local currency, be
Withdrawn from circulation aud pa
per currency issued bv the government
which shall be legal tender in pay.
meut OF all debts public and private,
duties on imports included, aud de-
clared equal with gold, the lawful mon-
ev of the United States; this money
or currency to be interchangeable at
the pleasure OF the boiders Tor govern-
ment bond. bearing lawful rate OF
interest, say 365, the government cred
ltors have the privilege OF taking the
money or the bonds at their election {;
reserving 10 Congress the right TO reg
| ulate the rate OF interest on the bonds
and the volume Of the curren;y, go as
to effect the equitable distribution o.
the products OF labor between
| money or non-produciug cap
ltal and productive Industry
2od. By paving the National debt in
strict accordauce with the laws under
which it was originally contracted,
gold where specifically promised, but
all other forms OF Indebtedness, IncIud-
iug the principal OF the 5-2O bonds,
should be discharged at the earliest
option OF the government, III the legal
teuder currency Of the United States,
without funding it in long bonds, or IN
any way increasing :be gold paying and
untsxed obligations Of the government
Resolved. That We are in favor OF the
office seeking the man and not the man
the Office: that we will endeavor 10 Sc
lect men 10 ill the various offices who
are honest and capable, without regard
10 former political opinions; that we
de,est bribery, corruption, and fraud in
obtaining votes, either by the use o.
money or whisky, and will not support
ary man for Office known 10 be guilty
OF the same, and that we are opposed
to elec,iug any man to fill the same o.
fee tor more than one term in succes'
sion. from the President down.