Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1877-11-01
Whereas, Congress has granted


/ Whereas, Congress has granted
the national sovereign control over
territorial high ways, and hundred
millions of acres Of land besides to
railroad corporations, with power to
tax the travel and commerce of those
highways without imitationg has
granted to telegraphic monopolies the
right to control ON their lines the
public, and private communications
all over the country, and levy there,
for any tax they choose upon the de-
fenceless citizens; has created ma
tional banks with unjust powers TO
receive interest on Federal bonds and
also interest ON national bank notes,
issued. to them by the Gated States
for circulation as money; has chang
ed by act of Congress in 1869 the
500 currency bonds into gold bonds,
at loss to the people of more than
81, 900, ,000,00 and a profit to the
bondholder of more than double that
amount /; has prevented the coinage of
the silver dollar and destroyed it's
legal tender power beyond $5, so as
to enhance the value of the bonds
corruptly turned into gold by pa
per act of Congress ;has exempted
the bondholder from taxation, while
labor, trade and manufactures groan
under it; has contracted the volume
of the peoples greenbacks has en-
larged the non-taxable bond debt of
the country, whereby trade, labor
and manufactures have been crippled,
taxation increased, income of labor
decreased, bankruptcies multiplied
and expenses and fees enlarged so as
to devour the assets of the bankrupt
estates has increased the wealth OF
the non-taxp aging bondholder four
fold by forcing specie resumption for
January /, 1879, through greenback
contraction, SO as to curse every
, industry and drive mechanics, trad
ers and working gmen to want and beg
gerry, whereby dearth of money, high
rates of interest, poverty, suffering,
destitution and crime have been vast
J ly incresed and the cause of public
education injured by destroying the
wealth and prosperity of the working
men, traders, farmers and mechanics,
| driving their sons to become tramps
or robbers to obtain the necessanes
of life; and,
Whereas, The administration of
our county and city governments has
become so extr ravagant, reckless and
tA-eeA~Hiase- SO corrupt, fraudulent add
= citizaDsE -1rsssg~ ----s-asssi.
ra,1ho,.;as .f scbool, township, county
an5 r;tr moneys appear in the settle
r meut vf -oificial -
n.oa,-.-saws Of the State are wholly
7 Inefficient to punish the offenders,
7 and,
| Whereas, These, and other reck-
less and vicious methods of admins
!. tration, have required vast increase
7 of Judges, courts, lawyers and Off
+ GERS, so that the people are devoured
1 by the expenses of litigation; and,
: Whereas, The many ponderous
volumes of revised codes, State and
t Federal, and the many thousand vol
+ umes of all sorts of judicial reports,
G commentaries and treatises upon the
e law have produced such multitude
of conflicting cases that the law has
become uncertsin, and by reason of
c its vastness mystery, wild and be-
wildering, has heen ere ated, whereby
justice is defeated and the people
taxed heavily, if they venture to go
to law, and by various other abuses
: of administration in all the depart
d ments OF government, the burdens
n and taxes of the people have been so
}. multiplied that even large holders, OF
1t lands are being forced into bankrupt-
n cy for taxes. Therefore, he it
. PRINCIPLES OF THE PARTY.
Il Resolved, /. We demand the
g immediate repeal ofthe specie resump-
ton actof January Ia, 1875, the res
tora.ion of coinage of the old silver
: dollar, 412 1-2 grains to be full le-
gal-tender money.
: 2. We demand the issue of abso.
: lutte money in greenbacks, to be full
- legal tenders for all debts, demands
taxes, duties, and all other purpose.
. whatsoever, in sufficient quantities L
:. redeem all the bonds that are subject
to redemption, or that may be made
:. subject to redemption hereafter.
m 3. We demand that the Fedora
f. Constitution be amended so as 1,
Iv limit and restrain Congress from gran
ing the public lands to any corpora
f. ton or association; from making tn;
United States party ofany corpora
ton or association for airy. purpose
of assigning or in any way conveyin,
nv the public moneys, credit franchises
IS powers or sovereignty of the Gov
be ernment; from creating any corpora
,e- ton except such as may be necessar
lie to carry out and execute the power
IN of the government itself, and fror
in issuing any bonds of the Unite
Of States in the future for any purpos.
zle 4. We demand that all existin
rs National Banks be required by Cor
os greSs to surrender their circnlatioY .