The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1879-09-25
The Liberal League Platform.

The National Convention of Liberal
Leaguers called to meet at Cincinnati
assembled in that city on the 18th and
elected Elizur Wright, President of the
League, Chairman. After addresses by
Mr.. Wright and others resolutions were
reported to be acted upon the next
day. The President of the League was
authorized to call a National Conven-
ton at his discretion to nominate can
didates for President and Vice-Presi-
dent in 1880.
The meeting on the 18th was largely
attended, and, after an address by Col
onel Ingersoll, the following resolution,
offered by him. was unanimously adopt
ed:
pathy with d. M. Bennett and his family, for
the reason that he has been convicted of re-
!igious bigotry and ignorant zeal: and has been
imprisoned and is now languishing in the cell
Of a felon, when, in truth and in fact, he has
committed no offense whatever against any
law of this country.
A resolution was then offered and
adopted that the National Liberal
League affiliate with all liberal bodies.
At the afternoon session, General
Morton, of New Haven, Conn.,, was
elected President of the Convention
into which the Liberal League had now
resolved itself, and, after remarks by
him and others, a Committee on ResO-
buttons was appointed. The following
platform was subsequently reported
and adopted:
The delegates to the Convention of the Ma
tional Libersl party held at Cincinnati on the
adopt the following preliminary declaration
and platform to the consideration of their con-
stitients and the Liberals of the United States,
for the purpose of producing general co.
operation and the Organization of the party
preparatory to their General Convention and
the nomination Of candidates in 1880. In the
tee appointed in each of the States to take
such action in regard to the fall elections of
this year as in their may be for the
Preliminary declaration and platform of the
National Liberal Party:
WHEREAS, The National Liberal League has
| advised the Liberals of our country to unite in
action as a political party; now, as the prelim-
mary declaration and platform, be it
tive of the National Liberal party is to realize
more fully than ever yet has been done the
main object of Government by the people as
| expressed in the Declaration of Independence
and the preamble to the Constitution of the
United States, to-wit: That it shall be made
true as far as possible, in our country, that all
and be endowed with certain rights, among
| which shall be liberty and the right to the
pursuit Of happiness. That to secure these
purposes it has become necessary, in our
Judgment, that new party should administer
| and reform the whole of our National and
| State Governments so as to efectually g estab-
to so Ourselves ve and our posterity That as thy
| best governmental policy to effect these ends.
we adopt and rely upon the noble maxims of
| 0thc bright constellation that had led our fa-
| theirs through an age of revolution and refOr-
| nation" and which, we believe, should be our
National Liberal party is now called, to-wit:
| Equal and exact justice to all men of
whatever state or persuasion, religious
| est friendship with all Nations; en-
| tangling alliance with none; the support of
State Governments in all their rights as the
tic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against
anti-republcan tendencies; the preservation
of the General Government in its whole Con-
stitutional vigor us the shcct-anchor of our
peace ut home and safety abroad; freedom of
religion. freedom of the press. freedom OF per-
sons under the protection OF the habeas corpus
IN order to effect the needed reformation of
our National and State Governments, we
recognize and incorporate as part OF the prac-
teal measures of the National Liberal party
the substance of the prominent reforms now
demanded by our people, and we desire them
to be justly. prudcntly and pcaccaby achieved.
tO-wit:
I. The reform in the interest and welfare o.
labor whereby the products of labor shall be
Justly distributed among the producers of tho
parasites shall be reduced to a minimum that
the hours of Labor shall be lessened: that
| women should have equal compensation with
men for their labor: that the employment of
children under fourteen years Of age in fac
tories and similar works should be prohibited.
That all laws for the filming and imI ris-
Of th4se ahh
so-called tramps in search of work
are i'll our judgment, unconstitutional and
inhumaI;, 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
to and desire the
| increase and improve the opportunities of
the laboring people now struggling in unequal
competition with the great monOpolists of the
2. The reform in the currency of the coun-
try by which it shall pass out of the hands Of
rac t 1h homds st. n9 banking
| sible to the people.
3. The reform in the use and occupation of
land BY which the title thereto shall depend
in amount for the public benefit.
4. The reform by which women shall be
practically emancipated, and be given the con-
| troll of herself and of her destiny.
5. Universal, compulsory and secular educa-
ton, fitting all children as they become citi-
zens for their practical, political and social du-
g. That neither the General Government nor
the States should create any corporation except
tine :" and fbe
people, the Government holds in regard to
them the right and power of eminent domain;
and that power should pc exercised So that the
wholly withdrawn, and generally the incomes
of corporations derived from the people over
and above a reasonable compensation to the
incorporates or investors should go to the
Government granting the corporate privileges
for the benefit of the people.
T. That the present methods of legislation
by which the passage of important measures
Is accomplished by direct or indirect bribery,
log-rolling and pressure at the close of SEES
sions, without any possible knowledge by the
people of what is done, should be radically re-
| formed; and to that end the people should, as
far as possible, have the referendum or
power of passing upon all public and impor-
tant laws, not only in their passage by their
| representatives, but also through their own
| votes, as is now done in adopting our COnsti-
tuition, and that this method should be made
practical in our National, State and municipal
| legislation.
g. That public officers should, as general
practice, be elected directly by the people, and
be made directly and effectively responsibleto
them; that Electoral Colleges should be abol-
ished, and the appointing power OF officers
elected be greatly limited.
fOstered by education, persuasion, industry
and healthy amusements, rather than by force
and Governmental interference: In this view
and Temperance laws, and demand that every
phase of Government and State education
should be secular in spirit and practice, and
emancipated from all ecclesiastical or clerical
control or influence.
That to this end this Convention adort in sub
stance the platform and principles OF the Ma
tional Liberal League.
An Associated Press dispatch says the
Socialist element was largely predomi-
nant in the second days session, and at
times the Convention was exceedingly
boisterous.
Autumn Styles In Millinery.
The earliest importations of head
gear give a decided impression that the
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