The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1876-03-25
FROM N ICHIGaN.
Independent State Convention.

The following call for Greenback State
Convention has been issued by Moses W.
Field, ex-Chairman Ut the State Executive
Committee.
The patriotic and free people OF Mich
gan, without regard 70 party affiliations,
are invited to assemble IN Mass Convcn-
ton, at jackson, on Wednesday, May ),
at o'clock, for the purpose OF eiecting
delegates to the National Convention tn
be held at indianapolis, on the 18th day
Of May, 1876. Also the choosing uf Pres
Idential Electors ANA the appointment Of
State Central Committee.
The Convention will prepare a platform
representing the principles Of the indie
pendents ia the meantime the following
propositions are published for the lnf"r-
nation Of this people
l. The prompt and unconditional repeal
u The Specie Resumption Act, ana the
substitution Of Greenbacks IN the place
of National Bank Notes, thereby cancel
ling the L. 5 Bonds how held for the Sc
curlty of the NJ -es Of the National Banks,
and the saving of $40, O00, 900 interest per
annum.
> The public debt to be funded in the
| United States 8 per cent convertible
Bonds and Greenbacks; the Bonds a. be
interchangeable with Greenbacks Ola de-
mand, and the Greenback money t. be
made legal tender for duties "a imports
| The Secretary Of the Treasury to use
the Greenbacks deposited III exchange for
| the per cent. Bonds Ia the redemption
ot Government i've and srA per cent.
Bonds; then within few years transfer
ring the National Debt from Europe 10
America, and reducing the interest thereon
at least $50, 600, 900 per anuum.
As a safe place Tor deposit, the plan
will operate Deuehclally Tor the people,
and as fiscal arrangement for the Treas
ury it viii save hundreds Of millions of
the peoples money.
3. The repeal Of the atrOciOus act Of
| March Is, 1869, which. although entitled ,
An Act to Strengthen the Public Credit, -
yet IN fact was IAN Act Of gross repair
alton Of contract An Act intended to
enrich bondholders by robbing and plum
derIng the people; and We demand the
| payment Of the tive twenty Bonds IN
1 GreenbaCks, as stipulated IN the Act of
Congress creating them, thus securing an
increase Of the circulating medium, and
thereby reducing the rate II interest for
the use Of money, emancipating industry
from the grip Of the ''cUutractIuuists' and
money lenders, securing return If pros
| porous times Tor our farmers. merchants
and manufacturers, and, above all, give
to millions Of our idle mechanics and la
borers the employment for which they
have been waiting and praying for 50 many
long and weary months
4. The public lands to be reserved for
actual settlers, and the proceeds t. be kept
Tor educational purposes
.. The repeal Of the whole system of
| Internal Revenue or domestic taxation,
and the raising Of all the revenue required
TO support the government, by taxation
on imports Of foreign productions, par
tlcularly upon that class of foreign com
modItles which our laborers can success
fully produce. Such taxation as will KEEP
the balance Of trade in favor of the United
States-put more revenue into the Treas
ury, and more labor into the hands of the
American people