Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1878-03-01

local associations to secure the election to Office
Of such men only as will pledge themselves to do
all in their power to establish these principles:
l. IL is the exclusive function of the General
Government 60 coin and create money and regu-
late its value. All bank issues designed to circu-
late as money should be suppressed, and the cir
culating medium, whether Of metal or paper,
should he issued by the Government and made
full legal tender for all debts, duties and taxes
in the United States mt it's stamped value.
2. There shall be no privileged class of credit
ors. Official alaries, pensions, bonds, and all
other debts and obligations, public and private,
shall be discharged in the legal tender money of
the United States strictly according to the stpu-
lation of the laws under which they were con-
tracted.
8. That the coinage of silver be placed on the
same footing as that Of gold.
a., Congress shall provide said money adequate
to the full employment of labor, the equitable
distribution of its products, and the require
ments of business, fixing the maximum amount
per capita to the population as near as may be
and otherwise regulating it's value by wise and
equitable provisions of law, so that the rate of
interest will secure to labor its Just reward.
3. 1t is inconsistent with the genius and spirit
of popular government that any species of pri-
vate property should be exempt from bearing its
d uSSd share are oi public ,9 burdens o GoySrnment
other property, and graduated income tax
should be levied for the support of the Govern
ment and the payment Of its debts.
@. The public lands are the common property
OF the whole people and should not be sold to
speculatOrs nor ~ nte 70 rallroats OF other cor
pOrations, but should be donated to actual set
tiers in limited quantities.
Z. The Government should by enactments en-
courage the development of our agricultural
mineral, mechanical, manufacturing, and COM
mercial resources, to the end that labor may be
fully and probably employed, but no monopo-
! lies should be legulized.
8. All useless offices should be abolished the
most rigid economy enforced in every branch of
the public service, and severe punishments in
tcted upon public officers who betray the trusts
imposed on them.
| Q. As educated labor has devised means for
multiplying o'uctiOn by inventions and dis
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miud as well as body, such legislation should be
had that the number of hours of daily toll will
& pc reduced giving to the WORKING classes more
| joyment, and saving them from premature de
cay and death.
TO- The adoption of an American monetary
differences in regard to the tariff and Federal
taxation, reduce and equalize the cost of trans
pOrtatiOn by land and water, distribute equita-
bly, the joint earnings of capital and labor Sc
cure to the producers of wealth the results of
their labor and skill, muster out of the service
vast army of idlers who under the existing sys-
tenn, grow rich upon the earnings of others, that
every man and woman may, by their own efforts,
secure competence SO that oyergrown FORTUNES
and extreme poverty will be seldom found with
in the limits of our Republic.
IL. Both the National and State Governments
should establish bureaus of labor and industrial
statistics, clothed with the power of gathering
and publishing the same.
II. That the contract system of employing labor
in our prisons and reformatOry institutions works
a great injustice to our mechanics and artisans
and should be prohibited.
l3. The importation of servile labor into the
United States from China is problem of the
most serious Importance, and we recommend
leglslation looking to its suppression.
The following resolution was also
adopted:
Rss0tUed That as we believe in the supremacy
of law over and above all perishable material,
and in the necessity for party of the united
people that Will rise above the old party lines and
preiudices we will not affiliate in any degree
with either of the old parties but in all cases and
localities will organize anew National men,
persons are clearly believers in and identified
with this sacred cause, and irrespective of creed,
color, place of BIRTH or past conditions of polit-
cal or other servitude, vote only for men who
entirely abandon old party lines and organiza-
tions.
A resolution denouncing the Silver
bill recently passed by Congress as a
delusion and condemning it as a finan-
cial measure was unanimously adopted.
Speeches were made by S. F. Cary
of Ohio, Trevellick of Michigan, Blan-
ton Duncan and Selby of Kentucky,
Emerson of Pennsylvania, Bane of Hi
nois, and Beaumont of New York. A
| National Executive Committee was ap-
pointed, and the convention adjourned
| sine die.