The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-03-07
THE ~NATIONALS'' IN GENERAL
CONVENTION.

UNIV Elm 11VNs
The National Convention of the
National Party met at Toledo, Ohio,
on the 22d of February, and organized
by the choice OF r. NJ. Trevelick, of De-
troit, as Temporary Chairman, with the
usual assistants. After the appoint
ment of the usual committees, Judge
Francis Hughes, of Pennsylvania, was
elected Permanent Chairman, and
Ralph E. Hoyt, of Michigan; G. H.
Jones, of New York, and Geo. Murphy,
of Iowa, Secretaries. One Vice-Presi-
dent from each State represented was
also chosen. The following platform
was adopted:
G. The public lands are the common property
| of the whole people, and should not be sold to
corporations, but should be donated to actual
| settlers in limited quantities:
2. The Government should. by general enact
ment, encourage the development Of our aericul-
| tural. mineral, mechanical, manufacturing and
commercial resources. to the end that labor may
he fully and proftably employed, but no mo-
8. All useless offices should be abolished, the
| most rigid economy enforced in every branch of
the public service, and severe punishment in
fiicted uron officers who betray the trusts re-
posed III them.
9. As educated labor has devised means fo,
multiplying production by inventions and dis
cOverles and as their use requires the exercise
of mind as well as body, such legislation should
be had that the number OF hours of daily toll
will BE- reduced giving to tie working classes
| cay and death.
10. III, adopt on IF an American monetary
system proposed herein will harmOnize ali
diff renee in regard to tariff and Federal taxa
ton. reduce and equalze the st Of Transporter
tiun by land and water distribute cuuit;,bly the
Joint Gaming of clpt, an labor, secure to the
Producers of wealth the results Of their labor and
skill. muster out of servic, the vast army of
oilers who. under the existing system, grow rich
| upon the :rnings of Others, that every man and
woman may, by their own effolts, secure COM
petence. SO that oyergrown fortunes and extreme
poverty will be seldom found within the limits
of our Republic.
II. Both the National and State Governments
should establish bureaus Of labOr and ind ustrial
statistics. 81 'thed with the power of gathering
| and pn Fishing tile same.
II. That the contract system of employing Ia
Dor in our prisons and refora atory institutions
| sans and should be prohibited.
IL. The importat on # servile labor into the
United States from China is a problem of the
| most serious Importance, and we recommend leg
islation looking to its supprt ssion.
A National Executive Committee, to
be composed of one member for eacl,
State. was then ordered and appointed,
the committee to have permission to
fill vacancies which may occur in its
membership. The committee is made
up as follows:
| Massachusetts, Charles Mclean; Rhode Island
J. c., Wallet; Connecticut, Alexander Troup
New York, Ralph Bea, mont; New jersey. John
!. Drew: Pennsylvania. +. Devices; Maryland
Jesse Gil.roe; Virginia, Moses stearns; West
Sta. e, n, Michigan, Noes ". Field: Indiana
y. J: SMITH Illinois, Al xander Campbell Wis.
Henry Richmond; Arkansas Charles f. Cunning.
HMH% as B 3 fSrT e p Alabama j.
Y +. Sargent: Texas left vacant by request until
the State Conception meets; Colorado, Joseph
| Wolf; Oregon. TuOmas j. Durant; California
| left vacant for the present.
The following resolution was then
unanimously agreed to:
OF the law over and above all perishable mate
rial and the cess ty for party of united peO
pie that will rise above old patty lines and pref
| Cdices. we will not affiliate in any degree with
either Of the old parties but in all cases and
localities will organize anew Us united National
men, nominate for office or Official position only
such persons are clearly believers in and iden.
tilted with this our sacred cause. and. irrespective
of creed color. place of BIRTH or past conditions
of political or ottec servitude, vote only for men
who entirely abandon old party lines and organi
sations.
A resolution was offered, and unani-
mously adopted, denouncing the Silver
DILL, just passed in Congress, as del,l.
sio.l, and indignantly condemning it as
a financial measure.
After short speeches by Hon. S. F.
Cary, Blanton Duncan and others, and
the adoption of the usual resolutions OF
thanks and the singing of the Doxology,
the Convention adjourned sine die.
| WHEREAS, Throughout our entire country the
value of real estate is deprecated, industry par.
alyzed, trade depressed, business incomes and
wages reduced, unparalleled distress inflicted
upon the poorer and the middle ranks Of GU,
people, the land filed with fraud, ENLIGHTENMENT
stalvat on; and,
WHERE'S. i his state of things has been brought
about by Legislation in the interest of and die
tat eated bY money-lenders' bankers and bondhold-
WHEREAS, While we recognize the fact tina,
! men IN Congress. connected with both the old
political Parties. have stood up manfully for the
| rights OF the peope, and met the threats OF the
money power and tie ridcule of an ignorant and
Subsidized press, yet neither the Republican nOl
the Demot rate parties III their National policies
propose remedies for the existing evils: and,
| WHEREAS, Tie Independent Greenback party
| and other assocatiOns more or less effective
! have been unable heretofore to make folmda.
bic opposition to the old party organizations;
and.
WHEREAS, The limiting of the legal-tender
quality OF greenbacks, the changing of currency
| bonds int coin bonds the demOnetizing of the
silver dollar. the exempting of bonds flom taxa.
ten, the contraction OF the circulating medium
the propo sed forced resumption of specie pay
ments, and the prodigal waste of the public
lands, were crimes against the people, and SO fal
as possible the results of these criminal acts must
| be counteracted by judicious legslation;
Therefore. We assemble in National Conven-
and invite all patriotic citizens to unite in an ef
fort to secure financial reform a1d industrial
emancipation. The organization shall be known
win perfect without delay National, State and
local associations. to secure the election to Office
Of such men only as will pledge themselves ia
| /. 1t is the exclusive function Of the General
Government to coin and create money and regu-
late its value. All hank issues designed to circu-
| lating medium, whether Of a metal or paper,
should be issued BY the Government. and made a
full legal tender for all debts duties and taxes in
z There shall be no privileged class of credit.
Official salaries, pensions, bonds and all other
debts and obligations. public and private, shall
be DISCHARGED in the legal-tender money Of the
United States strictly. according to the sipula-
tions Of the laws under which they were con-
| tracted.
8. The coinage Of silver should be placed on
| the same footing as that Of gold.
4. Congress shall provide said money adequate
shS d % " Of sna the
| per capita to the population, as near as may be-
and otherwise regulating its volume by wise and
equitable provisions of law, SO that the rate of
interest will secure to labor its just reward.
5. 1t is inconsistent with the genius ard spirit
| of popular government that any species of pri-
| vate property should be exempt from bearing its
just share of tie public buldens. Government
bonds and money should be taxed precisely as
| other property. and a graduated income-tax
| should be levied for the support of the Govern
ment and the payment Of its debts.
~s--
The Nervousness Of Pecuniary Crime.
The murderer must have cause fol
numbering, the brute must have a vic.
tim near, but the forger, or the swim.
dler or the cheat is always provoked
and always ready. There is always
property to be obtained, and he is al
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