The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-03-02

themselves to do all in their power to cs-
tablish these principles:
First, 1t is the exclusive function Of the
General Government to coin and create
money and regulate its value all bank is
sues designed To circulate as money should
be suppressed. The circulating medium,
whether Of metal or paper, shall be issued by
the Government, and made full legal tender
for all debts, duties and taxes in the United
States at its stamped value,
Second, There shall be no privileged class
ofcreditors oiicial 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 stipulations ollaws under which
they were CONTRACTED.
Third. That coinage of silver be placed on
the same footing as that Of gold.
Fourth, Congress shall provide said money
adequate to the full employment of labor,
equitable distribution of its products and re-
qulrements of business, fixing a minimum
mount per capita to population as near as
may be, otherwise regulating its value by
wise and equitable provisions by law; so
that the rate of interest will secure to labor
its just reward.
Fifth. 1t is inconsistent with the genius
and spirit of popular government that any
species Of private property should be exempt
from bearing its just share Of public burdens;
government bonds and money should be
taxed precisely as other property, and a
graduated income tax should be levied for
support Of government and payment of its
debts.
Sixth. Public lands are the common pro-
perty of the whole people, and should not
he sold to spectators nor granted to rail
roads or other corporations, but should be
donated to actual settlers in limited guam
titles.
Seventh. Government should by general
enactments encourage the development Of
our agricultural, mineral, mechanical, manu-
featuring and commercial resources, to the
end that labor may be fully and profitably
employed, but no monopolie5 should be le-
galized.
Eighth. Alluseless offices should be abol-
ished, the most rigid economy favored in
punishment inflicted upon public officers
who betray trusts rcposed in them.
Ninth. As educated labor has devised
means for multiplying production, by in
ventions and discoveries, and as their use
requires exercise of mind as well as body,
such legislation should be had, that the
number Of hours ofdaily toll will be reduced.
giving to working classes more leisure for
mental improvement, and social enjoyment,
and saving them from premature decay and
death.
Tenth. Adoption of an American none
tary system, as proposed herein, will har-
monize all differences in regard to Tariff
and Federal taXtion, reduce and equalize
the cost of Transportation by land and water,
distribute equitably joint earnings of capital
and labor, secure to producers Of wealth the
results of their labor and skill, muster out
of service n vast army of idlers who under
the existing system grow rich upon the earn
ings of others, that every man and woman
may by their own efforts secure q compc-
tence, so that overgrown fortunes and eX-
treme poverty will he seldom found within
the limits of our republic.
Eleventh. Both National and State Go
vernments should establish Bureaus of La
Dor and industrial Statistics, clothed with
power of gathering and publishing the same.
Twelfth. That the contrac. system Of en-
ployng labor in our prisons and reforma-
tory institutions works great injustice to our
mechanics and artisans, and should be pro-
hibited
Thirteenth. The importation of servile
labor into the United States from China is
a problem of most serious importance, and
we recommend legislation looking its sup
preston.
The resolutions were unanimously adopt
cd. After appointment of Executive Com
mttee the Convention adjourned sine die.