The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-08-02
The areenbaek State Platform.

The platform adopted by the Kan
sas State Greenback Convention
which met in Emporia, July Sd, has
finally got into print, and is ss fol-
low: .-
WHEREAS, The Republican and Demo-
cratic parties have squandered the public
money, impoverished the country and
neglected national legislation for the pur-
pose of investigating their own corrup-
tion and perpetuating their power and
party organizations. destroying industry,
paralyZing trade, infiictIDg on the poor
and industrial classes bankruptcy, suffer-
ing and crime; who have sunk agrIcuI-
turaltural and mechanical values by the
contraction of the currency; who have
changed q non-interest into an interest
bearing debt; who have increased their
own salaries, incomes and purchasing
power Of money; and
WHEREAS, The administrations Of
OF national, state, county and city govern
ment have become so extravagant, expen-
siVe and corrupt, as to destroy the profits
and value Of frugal industry; therefore,
RESOLVED, That we heartily indorse the
union between the Greenback party and
labor organizations, and we cordially in
Vite all patriotic citizens Of this state to
abandon all old parties and unite with Us
in the National Greenback Labor party
the party Of the peopie-to deliver this
country from slavery to money and cor
porate despotism, revive industry, restore
prosperity, reward labor, remove the bur-
dens of excessive taxation, inaugurate a
system OF American absolute money, and
secure to the neople and their posterity
the blessing Of free government. Wepro-
claim the following platform Of prlnci-
pies:
1. That money is q creation Of law,
| convenience Of trade ana commerce, and
it is the duty Of the government to pro-
vide all the money needed by the people
! full legal tender paper money, based on
the power. Derpetulty and credit OF the
government, needing no other redemption
| than that It be received by the govern
ment in full payment for all debts and
taxes. including duties on Imports.
2. That all expens es and debts OF the
government, including the bonds, should
be discharged in greenbacks, made full
legal tender, and the government, nation
| al and state, by constitutional provisions,
| should be forever prohibited from issuing
interest bearing bonds.
3. That as usury is the means whereby
accumulated capital robs industry, It
! should be prohibited by law, and the
government should issue money directly
to the people without the Intervention Of
| money corporations. ~
4. That the claims Of humanity should
be considered hrst and the claims OF mere
property second; that labor is the active
and productive capital Of the country,
| and should De protected and fostered
rather than idle money.
5. That we emphatically condemn the
unfair discrimination made between the
wages paid TO laboring men and fees and
| salaries Of Office holders and professional
men.
6. That we are opposed to selling the
homes Of the people, or booming them to
perpetual sertdom, for the purpose Of Sc
No TaaVnant Of frasTdnlaT1f
/ pal bonds.
4. That we demand the enactment Of
such laws as will permit q reasonable
time for the redemption Of property sold
under execution.
8. That each sex shall receive equal pay
for equal work.
6. That an income tax be established
on all incomes not exceeding one thou
sand dollars per year.
10. That, as all property Is equally pro-
tected by the government, therefore each
class of property (ineluding governments
bonds) should bear its just portion OF tax
IL. That we demand the unconditional
repeal Of the specie resumption act and
! ttonal banking law, and that the currency
be increased instead Of contracted.
II. That we demand the improvement
OF the nsyigabie rivers Of the United
States, and that the general government
shall control all channels Of domestic
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people by transportation companies and
corporations.
Is. That we are opposed TO granting
our public Hands 70 corporations, and any
further subsidies of money or public
credit.
IL That equivalent for equivalent IL
the natural law OF exchange, and we are
equally hostile to any form Of communism
which seeks to appropriate the wealth OF
others without giving an equivalent;
whether u be As once aud with violence,
or gradually at the rate Of ten to twenty
per cent. year; both modes are viola
tons Of natural and moral law, and
should be abolished