New-York tribune., 1878-07-24


adOpted ct Toledo, February %, 1878.
SecOnd-Want of harmony of sentiment on
the financial question in both the hepuoncan
and Democratic parties, renders 1t abso-
lutely necessary that those who demand imam
cial reform should abandon old organizations
and unite together in the National -Greenback-
Labor party to save business men from Dank-
ruptcy, the working classes from starvauon,
the whole country from revolution, ana the
Nation from reputation.
1hird-We deDounce as crimes against the
people the law making the greenback only
partial legal-tender, the act creating the ma
tlonal banking scheme, the act changing cur
rency bonds into coin bonds, the act exempt
ing bonds from taxation, the act repeating the
income tax, the act demonetizing silver. the
act for issuing interest-bearing bonds for the
purchase of silver bullion to be converted
into subsidiary coin, the act for the
forced resumption. of specie payments, the
act for the indefinite increase of the
national bank circulation and the enormous
contraction of the volume of the circulating
medium. We recognize the financial leglSla-
ton of the Government from the commence
ment of the Civil War as the arbitrary dlcta-
ton of syndicate OF bankers and usurers,
with the single and settled purpose of robblDg
the many to enrich the few. ,
FOHrth-IO remedy and cOunteract the evils
complained of, we demand that the Govern
ment shall issue q full legal-tender paper
money adequate i'll volume for the employ
ment of labor, the distribution Of its
products, the requirements of business,
and for the payment of oil interest
bearing bonds as fast as redeemable
the withdrawal and cancellation OF all bank
notes designed to circulate as currency; the
non exemption from tax of all private prop
erty the passage of a graduated income tax
act; the unlimited coinage OF gold and silver;
the repeal of the Specie Resumption Act; the
abolishment of all legalized monOpolies, and
the prohibition of their establishment IN the
future.
Fith-We recognize The mutual dependence
of capital and labor, and deprecate all attempts
to antagonlze them. Combinations of capital
10 rob, and strikes OF labor TO resist robbery,
are destructive of the true interests of both.
We denOunce alike the Communism which de-
mands an equal division of property and the
Infamous financial legislation which takes all
from the many to enrich the few. We demand
cheap capital and well-paid labor, III place OF
dear capital and cheap labor.
Sirth-To secure the rights and protect the
interests of employer and employed bureaus
of statistics should be established, and COM
petent persons appointed to inquire into and
report the condition and wages of the work.
ing classes in all departments of industry,
that wise, judiciOus and equitable laws may
be enacted in regard to the hours OF labor
and the employment OF minors IN manufactur
ing establishments.
SecenH-The public lands should be sacredly
set apart for the hOmesteads OF actual settlers,
and such legislation should he had rs will
encourage and AID the landless In securing
homes.
Eighi-The contract system Of employing
the inmates of our prisons works great in
Justice to mechanics and manufacturers, and
should be abolished.
Ainth-'rhe importation of the servile labor
OF other countries should be prohibited under
the seYerest penalties, while the immigration
of the liberty loving from other lands should
be encouraged.
JenA-We deprecate and denounee all Sc
ditiOuS and violent measures, and appeal only
to the good sense, love Of justice and patriot
ism of the people, aud invoke them 10 redress
their cruel and outrageous wrongs only through
the balot-bOX.
Eiecenh-Wc demand proper sanitary safe
guards and regulations for workshops, mines
and factories.
Iirelnh-We favor the enactment of laws
giving mechanics and labOrers "a first lien on
all descriptions of their work for their full
wages.
Ihirfcenth-We are opposed TO any further
issue OF Understanding bonds of the United
States for any purpose whatever.