New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-08-08
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INCIDENTS OF THE CAMPAIGN
THE GREENBACK PLATFORM.
SWEEPING CHANGES PROPOSED AT THE wAsHlNG'
TON MEETING.

SWEEPING CHANGES PROPOSED AT THE WAshlNS-
TON MEETING.
WASHINGTON, Aug. THE following is the dec
laratiOn of principles adopted by the members OF
the Greenback party who assembled in this city ON
Tuesday nights
We believe the cwO great political parties,
as now constituted, to be so completely unuer
the control OF ofice-seekers, protesslonai pom.
ticians, bankers and moneymongers, that IL
is unsafe longer to intrust to them TINS gov
eminent
We believe that intelligent and pure men,
regardless Of former party associations, should
fill all positions of trust and responsibility:
We are opposed to third terms for public
officers, except in those cases where skill ana
experience are indispensable to the proper per-
Torrance of the required services.
We believe the powers OF the General UOV-
eminent are restricted to the express grant OF
the Constitution, and all powers not granted
ATE reserved to the State and the people there
of.
We believe that the right of States to tax
property in the States is inviolable, and that
United States bonds should bear the burden
of Government equally with all other prop
erty, and any legislation that exempts SAID
bonds from taxation is unjust and Oppres-
sive.
the Government and the people, the laborer
and the Office-hOlder, the pensiOner and the
soldier, the producer and the bOndholder. A
currency alike in value IN every mans nand
wherever the American flag floats as an en-
blem of sovereignty.
We demand the immediate and uncOn-
ditional repeal of the sO-called Resumption
Act, the lawful liberation of the coin boarded
in the Treasury, and the removal OF all re-
strictiOns to the coinage OF silver. While we
favor the circulation of gold and silver as
money, vet realizing that specie never has
been, and never can be sufficient to supply
the commercial demands of the country, we
therefore favor the issue of Treasury notes to
such extent as will fully satisfy the require
ments of trade, and That sucn notes De maze
a full legal tender.
We believe that the national bank system
Is oppressive to the people, and therefore de-
mand the retirement OF bank currency and the
substitution of greenbacks therefor. We de-
clare that all bonds and obligations OF the
National Government ought TO be paid III
legal-tender notes of the United States
except where it is otherwise provided by the
original law under which they were Issued
and all that can be called IN and paid now
should be paid at once, and the remainder as
soon as it can be lawfully done.
We oppose the further issue OF interest
bearing bonds, on any account, at any rate Oh
interest, by the Government.
While we oppose mOnOpOiles' subsidies anu
special privileges, we favor a judiciOus
expenditure OF Treasury notes on internal lnl-
proyements, and in the construction OF such
rail highways as will furnish protection 10
our maritime and land frontiers, and open new
markets for the products OF American industry.
We believe that an economical expenditure
of money in the construction OF one OF more
lines OF railway into Mexico, and the extern
sion of a second and third line, that will Gre
ate a competition, to the Pacific coast, will be
the means of making more accessible the mar
kets of that Republic, as well as those OF
Australia, China and Japan. whose trade will
inyigorlte and sustain our manufacturing and
industrial interests TO greater extent than
any other system of internal improvements
could possibly do.
We believe that the public lands are the
common property of the whole people, and
should not be sold to spectators nor granted
10 railroads or other corporations, but should
be donated to actual settlers in limited
quantities.
wealth-produciDg classes is the paramount in
terest of the people of the United States.
Those whose labor and enterprise produce
wealth should be secure IN Its enjoyment.
Our warmest sympathy Is with the laoOrlng
classes who have been thrown out, OF EN-
ployment by the ruinOus financial policy
and unjust legislation OF the Republl-
can marty, and who must still continue TO
suffer under the system OF false economy now
established by the Democratic party, and we
pledge the National party TO. reversal OF
that policy and the restoration of all the
rights they are entitled to upon its ascendancy
TO power. ,
Upon this platform of principles the National
party, feeling that the popular heart beats in
unison with It, appeals to every lover Oh Com
stitutiOnal Government, whatever may have
been his former party affiliations, TO unite
with It's In our efforts TO rescue the Admins
tration of the Federal Government from the
hands of those who have and who still persist
in centralizing power and expressing the peo-
pie.
The meeting adjourned TO Thursday. Au-
gust 3.