The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-01-20
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Second. they demand therepeal. uncondition-
ELY. 81 the act OF January IA. 1876. compelling
as1s s;a holding that the question Of return 70
troled entirely By the business interests Of tho
s spnnay They do not believe that the country
a. aragged through the depths q ruin
agoao o sIssnard for the benefit alone OF the In
| Third they demand that the national banking
sys. ,e,a. 90 removed. and circulating medium
ithn' !. Sy sag government for the people,
ing It, And they ask that tbs sIao ~ thns
placed In circulation shall bear a rsasonabiS
a and Jaa ang III pr@por2a to The bgsn trans
Fourth, they demand that the currency circI1-
lated o9 tbs authority. OF the government shall
public and pyate no hs Raym al q ~
BE- ct par with gold. or more likely at preni th
And fifth, they demand that hereafter the
n ,ntere p9ey be framed perpanently in their
against In future legislation as In the past AMI
e " tnelr prosperity and not the mere growth
Q, incomes to retired CAPITALISTS shall Be the
primary dutY OF Inc government.
ln my Judgment these demands are lust and
moderate. implore Senator'S not to sapposn
they are rejected now they will be renewed
hereafter with still greater deterAination and
Ref anaIs, with Others aided plead Tor TIC
~, unheiai credit OF the government. 1t rests on
me popular will alone. and that viii can mo-
longer ee dehed or menaeed with fInpunity. .
and they can loosen. If the money power Is ad-
vised with wisdom it will stop and refraee liz
i ftsHi t 9en1rons s 3 nSw pghsT than
~ ~, sense OF Injustice and oppression. III.
hesrs Is bsrds l. Sa aoa to s golden
vast possessions: IL the burning lust Of avarieo
, has made it deaf to the voice OF reason and
Ried to all human It viii push ON
for. sooner or later. the people, irrespeetiye az
paa5y namss viii unite In their own defense
They have been slow to believe that there wna
deiibera purpose to degrade and mpoyerish
THE GREAT PRODUCING CLASSES
9q PHI tn neona aE9 being, RAPIDLY educated now
craven ON oil their hearts. They have aIan
recently read the proclamation Of the great Or
to the meaning Il our financial Iseis5eet iss
and the misery 1t has created. In the columns
OF one they have read that
The American laborer must make mn hfx
than the Gfopean aborer Men must be com n
t Z IN life to which it has pleased God to ca
In the columns Of another organ of consoit.
dated capital they have read tho following re-
Voting sentiments: s.
change OF the ownership OF the soil. and the
creation Of class of land owners on the one
hin, sit nrd "a LINERS On tne other some-
Europe 700 "
And in every form In which the English IAN
guage can be used the American people ana
especially the people Of the West have been
not1hed. not that their consent will be asked
put that they VIII be compelled to submit to The
eg1sslation which results in this British system
of baronial landed estates, dependent fsn-
,ntry, and pauDer wages for the workingman,
sslr. L have no word OF menace to utter On this
loor. but in behalf Of every laborer and
warn :, all such as value their Invest.
nents that when these doctrines 81
iespotism are. sought to be enforced
his fair land will again be convulsed in agony
lnd the lies Of liberty will blaze forth again.
y they did a hundred years ago ia defense of
he natural rights of man. May the wisdom 81
our fathers and the benignity OF our God avert
luch an issue: bit If 1t shall come IL infatua-
ion has seized our councils. the result viii oniy
ldd one more instance to the long catalogue Of
~ man crime and folly where avariee like am
,ltlon oyerleaps Itself and its unholy attempt
o rob others OF their possessions loses It's own.