The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1878-08-08
NATIOyAL sTATE PLATFoRM.

l. We indorse and reafirm the declara- |
tion Of principles of the National party |
adopted at Toledo, February %, 1878.
2. The want of harmony of sentiment on |
the financial question on both the Repub- |
lican and Democratic parties, renders it alb
solutely necessary that those who demand |
financial reform should abandon old organ |
izations and unite together in the Ma
tional Greenback Labor party, to save bus
iDess men from bankruptcy, the working
classes from starvation, the whole country
from revolution, and the Nation from re-
pudiation.
3. We denounce as crimes against the
people, the law making the green back only
a partial legal tender; the act creating the
National Banking scheme; the act chang
ing currency bonds into coin bonds; the
act exempting coin bonds from taxation;
the act repeating the income tax; the act
demonetizing silver; the act for issuing in
terest bearing bonds for the purchase of sill
yer bullion to be converted into subsidiary
coin; the act for the forced resumption of
specie payments; the act for the indefnate
increase of the National Bank circulation,
and the enormous contraction of the vol
ume of the circulating medium-and we
recognise the financial legislation of the
Government from the commencement of
the civil war, as the arbitrary condition of
syndicate Of bankers usurers with the
single and settled purpose of robbing the
many to enrich the few
| 4. To remedy and counteract the evils
complained of, we demand that the Gov
ernment shall issue a full legal tendor pa
per money, adequate in volume for the en-
ployment of labor, the distribution of its
products, the requirements of business and
for hn no. Of /
as fast as redeemable; the withdrawal and
cancellation of bank notes designed to cir
culate as currency; the non-exemption from
taxation from all p ivate property; the pas
sage of graduated income tax; the unlimet-
ed coinage of gold and silver, and the re-
peal of the specie resumption act; all legal
lied monopolies abolished, and their es.
establishment in the future prohibited.
D. We recognise the mutual dependence
of capital and labor and depreciate all at
tempts to antagonize them. Combinations
of capital to rob, and strikes of labor to re-
sist robbery are destructive of the true in
terests of both. We denounce alike the
communism which demands an equal div.
ision of property and the infamous finan.
cial legislation which takes all from the
many to enrich the few We demand cheap
capital and we'll paid labor, in the place
of dear capital and cheap labor.
&. 10 secure the rights and protect the in
terests OF employer and employed, bureau:
of statistics should be established and com
? petent persons be appointed to enquire in
to and protect the condition and wages O.
the working classes in all departments O
industry, that wise, .judicious and euuitabl,
laws may be enacted in regard TO the hour
D of labor and the employment of minors il
8 manufacturing establishments
7. The public lands should be sacredl,
3 set apart for the homesteads Of actual set
, tiers, and such legislation should be ha,
o as will encourage and aid the Iandless i,
securing homes.
8. The contract system ofemploying tn
: inmates of our prisons, works great injus
t tice to mechanics and manufacturers an
: should be abolished.
8. The importation of servile labor fror
. other countries should be prohibited unde
II the seyerest penalties-while the emigrs
h tion of the liberty loving from other land
e should be encouraged.
! 10. We depreciate and denocnee all So
y ditions and violent measures, and appes
l. only to the good sense, love of justice an
l. patriotism of the people, and invoke thel
e. to redress their cruel and outrageous wrony
30 only through the ballot-box.
70 IL. We demand proper sanitary SAT
- guards and regulations for workshop
ia mines and factories.
at -. We favor the enactment of laws gi
he ing mechanics and laborers first lien
of all descriptions of their work for the
VI full wages.
y 13 That we are opposed to any furth
al issue of interest bearing bonds of tt
"a United States for any purpose whatever.