The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-10-25
Platform Of the Independent
Partv Of Minnesota,

Adopted at their State Convention held at
Faribaut June 10th 1877.
Mr.. Donnelly from the committee
on resolutions made the following re-
port, which was unanimously adopted:
ssResolped, That we reaffirm the
principles Of the National lndepen-
dent Party, as proclaimed at Indian,
apolis on the 18th of May, 1876, and
point to the present financial condl-
ton of the American people as the
best evidence of the necessity for the
reforms therein demanded:
Resolred, That we charge that the
course of national financial Legislation
for years past has all been IN FAVOR OF
the holders Of our national bonds ana
against the taxpayers:
Ry changing the terms OF some
of the bonds so that they were made
payable in gold and silver coin, instead
f sshwful money OF the United
States
9. By subsequently enacting that
the same bonds should be paid In gold
alone. -,
3 Bv increasing the weight Of the
gold dollar. 4
4. BY contracting the currency 81
the country so as to make money more
valuable, and the property of the peo-
ple less valuable.
5. BY decreeing forced resumption
Of specie payments upon the ISL OF
January. 1879, thus consigning our al
ready impoverished people to greater
denths of suffering in the future.
ri
onetization of American silver com as
the result of a conspiracy, and CRIME
AGAINST the prosperity and industry OF
the American people, and one OF the
chief causes of the present suffering;
and we demand that silver coin be
once more restored by Congress to the
Mace which it held for over eighty
Years. rs legal tender, in all sums,
for ali debts public and private.
Rcs0ired, That we endorse the pol
lev of reconciliation and peace pro-
mulgated by the present national
administration, and hail the era OF
rood will among all the citizens OF our
common country as ausplclous for
proper consideration OF the great
financial questions upon which depend
the prosperity of our people.
Resolred, That we protest against
the financial policy now being enforc'
ed by Secretary Sherman. Which Is
rapidiy increasing the bonded debt OF
the United States by withdrawing
>sgreenbacks, the people money and
substituting in their place national
bank notes, based on bonds upon which
we are taxed to pay interest.
Resolped, That while we are MOI
ayerse to some reasonable and equlta
BILE settlement of the so-called Mime
Sota State railroad bonds, we shall
demand of our candidate for Governor
and of our candidates for the Stat'
Legislature, unequiyocal pledges tina
they will not favor or support an.
proposed settlement of the said bond
unless the same is first fully and falrl.
submitted, at ageneral election, to thu
people of the state for their approva
or rejection.
Resolred That in the present distress
of the taxpayers of this state we de
mand the strictest retrenchmenti In al
nuhljc expenditures and reduction
of salaries to correspond with the Oh
unfinished incomes of the people.
Resolrcd, That the recent labor out
breaks, which have interrupte'
the commerce of the country ant
brought the nation to the brink 0
civil war, are the legitimate fruit o
the pernicious financial Legislation
now being enforced. That while W.
ympathise with the laboring peopl.
inthis great distress, we would sa.
to them, that the true remedy fol
their grievances is to be found not II
violence and crime but in the ballo
box, through support of the lnde
pendent party, which alone defends
their rights and proposes a remedy fo
their wrongs.