The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-09-15

tional Liberty party is now called, to wit:
Equal and exact justice to all men of
whatever state or persuasion, religious or
political.
Peace. commerce and honest friendship
with all nations, entangling alliances with
none.
The support of the State governments in
all their rights as the most competent adj
ministrators IF our domestic concerns and
the surest bulwarks against anti-Republic-
an tendencies.
The preservation OF the general govern
ment, in its whole Constitutional vigor, as
the sheet anchor of our peace at home and
safety abroad.
Freedom of religion; freedom of the
press; freedom of persons under the pro-
lection of habeas corpus; and trlal by
juries impartially selected.
That, in order to effect the needed re-
formation in our National and State gov
ernments, we recognize and incorporate as
part of the practical measures 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;
t. The reform In the interests and welfare
of labor, whereby the products of labor
shall be Justly distributed among the pro-
ducers of the country, and the hosts OF
non-producers and parasites shall be re-
duced to minimum; that the hours of
labor should be essened; 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 pro-
hibited.
That all laws for the fining and imprison-
ment of those unemployed worlmen whom
necessity compels to wander as SO called
'tramps" in search of work are, in our
Judgment, unconstitutional and inhuman;
that poverty is thereby made crime, and
as those laws are executed in the interest
of a 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 objects
are to increase and improve the opportuni-
ties of the laboring people now struggling
in unequal competition with the great
monopolists Of the country. ?
2. That reform in the currency of the
country, by which it shall pass out Of the
hands of lisurers, specula ors, and a bank
ing aristocracy into the hands of govern
ment responsible to the people
8. The reform in the use and occupation
of land, by which the title thereto shall de-
pend upon its use, and its ownership, may
be limited in amount for the public bene-
fit.
4. The reform by which woman shall be
practically emancipated, and be given the
control of herself and of her destiny.
S. Universal, compulsory, secular, educa-
ton, fitting all children as they become
citizens, for their practical, political, and
social duties in life.
6. That neither the general government
nor the States should create any corpora
ton except for the public good, and when
any corporations become inimical to the
interests of the whole people, the Govern
ment holds in regard to them the right and
power of eminent domain, and that power
should be exercised so that the grants to
such corporations may be limited or wholly
withdrawn. And generally the incomes Of
corporations derived from the people, over
and above reasonable compensation to the
incorporators and investors, should 60 to
the Government granting the corporate
privileges. for the benefit Of the people.
7. That the present methods of legisla-
ton by which the passage of important
measures is accomplished by direct or in
direct bribery, log rolling and pressure at
the close of the sessions, without any pos
sible knowledge by the people of what is
done, should be radically reformed; that to
that end the people should as far as posi-
bic have the referendum or power of pass.
ing upon all public and important laws, not
only in their passage by their representa-
tives, but also through their own votes, as
is now done in adopting our constitutions;
and that this method should be made prac.
tical in our National, State and municipal
legislation.
5. That public officers should as general
practice be elected directly by the people,
and be made directly and effectively re-
sponsible to them; that Electoral Colleges
should be abandoned and the appointing
power of officers elected greatly limited.
8. That good morals and habits can be
better fostered by education, persuasion,
industry, and healthy amusements, rather
than by force and governmental influence.
In this view we favor the repeal of all Sab
bath, sumptuary, and temperance laws, and
demand that every phase Of fsgovernment
and State education should be secular in
spirit and practice, and emancipated from
an ecclesiastical or clerical control or inhu,
ence. That to this end this convention
adopt in substance the platform and prin
/ cples of the National Liberal League.
Reported by the committee and adopted
by the Convention at Cincinnati September
18th, 1879. T. B. WAKEMAN,
Chairman of Committee on Platform anc
Resolutions.