The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1878-02-23
OHIO.
Toledo Greenback Convention.

TOLEDO, Feb. 22.-The committee on
permanent organization reported as fol- |
lows: For president, Judge Francis W,
Hughes, Of Pennsylvania. Among the
vice presidents were s. Sennett, of Iowa;
Alex. Campbell, of Illinois, and Allen
Root, CT Nebraska, Secretaries. Ralph
E. Hoyt, of Illinois; 6. Il, Jones, of New
York; and e. W. Murphy, of Iowa.
The following resolutions were adopted:
l. 1t is the exclusive function of the
general government to coin and create
money and regulate its value: all bank
issues designed to circulate as money
should be suppressed; their circulating
medium, whether of metal or paper,
should be issued by the government, and
made full legal tender for all debts,
duties and taxes in the United States at
its stamped value.
2. There shall be no privileged class of
creditors; 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 stipulation of the
laws under which they were contracted.
3. That the coinage of silver be placed
on the same footing as gold and silver.
4. Congress shall provide said money
adequate to the full employment of labor,
the equitable distribution of its products
and the requirements of business, fixing a
minimum amount per scapita to the popu-
lation as near as may be, and otherwise
regulating its volume by wise and equita-
bic provisions of law. so that the rate of
interest will secure to labor its just reward.
5. 1t is inconsistent with the genius
aud spirit of popular government that
any species of private property should be
exempt from bearing its just share of the
public burdens of the government, and
money should be taxed precisely as other
property, and a graduated income tax
should be levied for the support of the
government and the payment of its debts
6. The public lands are the common
property of the whole people and should
not be sold to spectators or granted t.
railroads or other corporations, but should
be donated to actual settlers 10 limited
quantities
7. The government should, by genera
: enactment, encourage the development o
, our agricultural, mineral, mechanical man
rufacturing and commercial resources. t
the end that labor may be fully and profit
ably employed, but no monopolles shoult
, be legallzed,
s. All useless offices should be abol
: ished, the most rigid economy enforced i
every branch of the public service an
severe puuis hments inflicted upon publ
: officers who betray the trust reposed i
. them.
8. As educated labor has devised mean
for multiplying production by inventio
and discoveries, and as their use require
G the exercise of mind as well as body, sue
= legislation should be had that the numbe
!. of hours of daily toll be reduced, giving {
, the working classes more leisure for mer
= tai Improvement and social enjoyment, an
!. saving them from premature decay an
deatb,s
10. The adoption of an American MOI
etaIy system, as proposed herein, that wi
~ harmonize all differences in regard to tari
- and federal taxation, reduce and equal,
h the cost Of transportation by land an
= water, distribute equitably the joint carr
- - ings of capital and labor, secure to Il
- nroducers of wealth the results of the
labor and skill, muster out OF the servi,
the vast army of idlers who, under Il
existing system, grow rich upon the carr
10 mos of others: that every man and WON;
q. NAV. bv their own efforts secure a comp
al tsnce so that oyergrowiDg fortunes a,
- eT,rema noverty will be seldom fou,
within the limits of our hel ushc.
IL. Both national aDd state governme
should establish bureaus Oh labor and j
it. dustrial statistics, clothed with q
on power of gathering and publishing t
lsame,