The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1878-05-25

to moneyed monopoly, Of unequal taxation
Of exemption of classes, of high rates of in
terest and of remorseless contraction, which
has destroyed every enterprise that gave
employment TO labor. Its present hold up
on federal power was secured by fraud, per
jury and forgery. Its laws are unjust and
its practices are immoral. They distress
the people and destroy their substance.
The only remedy for these evils is entire
change of policy and the dethronement Of
those in power; and we
Resolve That further contraction of the
volume of the United States legal tender
notes is unwise and unnecessary. They
| should be received for customs duties and
reissued as fast as received Gold, silver,
and United States legal tender notes at par
Herewith, are a just basis for paper crcu-
lation. A close connection of the Federal
| Government with the business interests Of
the people through National banks tends TO
monopoly and centralzation, but in chang
ing the system, uniformity of notes, security
of the note-holders and protection of the
capital invested should be provided for.
Treasury notes issued in exchange for bonds
bearing low rate Of interest is the best
form in which the credit of the Government
can be given to paper currency. Labor and
capital have equal demands upon and equal
manufactures should be encouraged, so that
steady employment and fair wages may be
yielded to labor whilst safety of Investment
and moderate return for its use belong to
capital. Violence or breeches of order in
support of the real or supposed rights of
either should be promptly suppressed by the
strong arm Of the law.
The Republican party, by its legislation
in 1872, which reduced the tariff upon btu
minous coal from one dollar and twenty
tive cents to seventy-five cents per ton, and
upon iron, steel, wood, metals, paper, glass,
leather, and all manufactures of each of
them, ten per cent, struck q fatal blow at
the industries and labor of Pennsylvania.
The public lands are the common proper
ty. Of the people, and they should not be
sold to spectators nor granted to railroads
or other corporations, but should be reserved
as homesteads for actual settlers.
Our public debt should be held at home.
and the bonds representing it ought to be of
small denominations, in which the savings
of the masses may be safely invested.
Thorough investigation into the Electoral
Fraud of 1876 should be made; frauds
should be exposed, truth vindicated, and
criminals punished; but we oppose any at
tack upon the Presidential title as danger
Gus to our institutions and fruitless in its
results. ....r ...
The republican party, controlling the leg
islaton of the State, has refused to execute
many of the reforms of the new constitution.
Among other things it has neglected and re-
fused to compel the acceptance of all its |
provisions by the corporations of the State /; |
to prevent undue and unreasonable dis
elimination in charges for transportation of |
freight and passengers, and, without abate- |
ment or drawback to any, to give to all |
equal means for transporting the raw mate
rial of the State in such manner and to such |
points as they may prefer; and to publish,
in good faith, monthly statements Of where
the money of the people was kept.
The republican party creates new offices
and adds enormous perquisites TO others,
and fills them with iavorites whose chief
duty it is to manage its political machinery.
Its administration Of the State government
grows more expensive each year of its rule.
Legislation has been directed by republican
lobbyists, who in turn manipulate and con-
troll the nominations of the republican party,
and its candidates are the creation of a
lunta whose DEGREES are accepted as the ir-
reversible mandate Of absolute hereditary
power. We denounce these methods, these
measures, and these men as unworthy the
support of an honest and free people, and
we invite all of every shade of political
opinion to unite with us in delivering the
commonwealth from their hateful rule.
Each resolution, as read, was warmly ap.
plauded and adopted unanimously.