The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1879-10-01

Resolutions Of the National Liberal
Party.

attended by Colonel Bob Ingersoll,
Elizer Wright, Parker Pillsbary, and
other social and religious reformers.
They decided to hold general conven-.
tion and nominate a Presidential ticket
i'll 1880. T. r. Wakeman, Chairman
of the Committee on Resolutions, sub.
mitted the following platform, which
was adopted:
That, in order to effect the needed
reformation in. cur national and State
Governments, we recognize and incor-
porate as part of the practical mea-
snres of the National Liberal party the
substance of the prominent reforms
now demanded by our people, and we
desire them to be justly, prudently and
peaceably achieved, to wit I:
l. The reform in the interests and
welfare Of labor, whereby the products
of labor shall be Justly distributed
among the producers, of the country,
and the hosts of non producers and par
asites shall be reduced to minimum !;
that the hours of labor should be less
ened that women should have equal
compensation with men for their labor;
that the employment of children under
fourteen years of age in factories and
similar works should be prohibited
that all laws for the filming and impris-
onment of those unemployed working
men whom necessity compels to wander
as so-called "tramps," in search of
work, are, in our judgment, unconsti-
tutional and inhuman that poverty is
thereby made a crime and as those
laws are executed in the interest of
class, We demand their repeal; and,
finally, on these subjects we extend our
cordial sympathy to and desire the CO.
operation of all organizations whose OBJ
Jects are. to increase and improve the
opportunities of the laboring people
now struggling in unequal competition
with the great monopolists of the coun-
try.
2. The reform in thecurrency of the
country, by which it. shall pass out of
the hands of usurers, spectators and
banking aristocracy into the hands OF
Government responsible to the people.
3. The reform in the use and occu-
patton of land, by which the title there
to shall depend upon its use, and upon
its ownership, may be limited in amount
for the public benefit.
4. The reform by which woman
shall be practically emancipated and be
given the control OF herself and her
destiny.
8. Universal, compulsory, secular
education, fitting all children, as they
become citizens, for their practical, POI
liticad and social duties in life.
g.. That neither the General Gov
ernment nor the States should create
any corporation except for the public
good, and when any corporations be-
comes inimical to the interests of the
whole people, the Government holds in
regard to them the right and power Of
eminent domain, and that powep should
be exercised SO that the grants to such
corporations may be limited or wholly
withdrawn /; and, generally, the in
comes of corporations derived from the
people, over and above a reasonable
compensation to the incorporators, or
investors, should 60 to the government
granting the corporate privileges, for
the benefit of the people.
7. That the present methods of leg
islation by which the passage of impor-
tant measures is accomplished by direct
or indirect bribery, log-rolling, and
pressure at the close, of the sessions,
without any knowledge by the people
of what is done, should be radically re,
formed that to that end the people
should as far as possible have the ref
endam, or. power, of passing upon all
pubic and important laws, not only in.
their passage by their representatives,
but also through their own votes, as is
nov done in adopting our constitutions;