Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-03
debt as the basis of an iniquitous banking

debt as the basis of an iniquitous banking
monopoly.
1t must be apparent to all that great money
ed institutions and other corporations now hav
ment, and are fast swallowing up the profits O
labor and reducing the people to condition o
vassalage and dependence Those monopolies
headed by associated banks, are interlockec
in purpose and always act in the closest sym
pathy.
There are three great industrial classes il
America: First, the producers; second, those
who manufacture raw material and prepare
them for use; third, the distributors of these
products. Each should be protected in the le-
gitimate fruits and profits of their labor, but
should not be permitted to extort from aud tt
enslave the Others
The great problem Of our civilization is how
to bring the producer and consumer together
This can only bs done by providing an ade
ouate circulating medium, and by the rigid
regulation of Interstate J commerce
and transportation. This was wisely seen
by the trainers of the constitution, and accor-
dinghy by the eighth section of article first,
Congress is clothed with power to regulate
commerce with foreign nations and among the
States. This power imposes corresponding
duty upon Congress to see that it is
enforced. The two great agents of com merce
are money and transportation. 1t is unde-
niable that both of these agents are under the
absolute control of monopolies. By control
| ling the volume of money, the banks
fix the price of all labor and
prosperity, and railroads by combination
render competition impossible, and control OBJ
solutely the price of transportation. This
places the people between the upper and
neither millstones and grinds
them to poverty and ruin.
| 1t resalts in the wholesale robbery of both the
producer aud consumer. Who is able to con-
trovert this stupendous fact?
Farmers, planters and laboring men of the
United States I beseech you to open
your eyes at once to this alarming
condition of things 1 am especially thankful
that the platform of the party which placed
me in nomination is bold and un-
mistakable on these great questions.
Both the Republican and Democratic plat
forms are either silent with regard to these
vital issues, or they have pronounced in favor
of monopolies and against the people. With
fifty millions of people looking them in the
face, and pleading in vain for relief, they utter
not one word of promise or hope. Their Lead
ers and platform makers are in the tolls OF the
syndicate, gigantic bank corporations and
railroad monopolies, and have neither the dis
position or courage to strike one generous blow
for industrial emancipation. An area of pub
lie domain, larger than the territory occupied
by the great Ger nan empire, has been wantonly
bill introduced by Hon. Hendrick Wright, of
Pennsylvania, to enable our poor people to reach
and occupy the few remaining acres has been
secuted, ridiculed and defeated in Congress.
In consequence of this stupendous system Of
| land gobbling, millions of young men OF Amer
| lea, and millions more industrious people from
abroad seeking homes in the new world are
left homeless and destitute.
Tho public domain must be
sacredly reserved to actual settlers. and where
corporations have not complied strictly with
the terms of their grants, the lands should be
| at once reclaimed.
The immigration of persons from foreign
| countries seeking homes and desiring TO be-
come citizens OF the United States should be
encouraged, but the importation of Chinese
servile laborers should be prohibited by strin-
gent laws.
| While tho bondholder has been paid gold in
return for his deprecated currency, the SOL
diers and sailors who saved our union, our
homes our money and our affairs, and whose
blood consccrated every battlefield from Bel
| mont and Donneison to Gettysburg and Appot-
omattox, are denied the pittance justly due
them under the;s contract with this govern
! ment, as though soldiers and sailors could live
of gratitude alone. By the answer of Secretary
Sherman of June 10, 1880, to the Senate resO-
luton of inquiry it appears the government
paid the soldiers during the war of the rebel
lion 81, ,49, ,519, 1856. The total interest paid in
gold on the public debt from July 1st, 1861, to
June 30, 1879, was 81, sos, ,3Ol ,4O5. The soldier
has been taxed to pay this interest while the
bondholder has gone free.
During the present Congress it has been i'm
| possible to induc the committee to report a
single bill to remedy existing evils. Impor
tant committees of the House are so cOasti-
tuted, and the despotic rules of that body SO
| interpreted as to render relief impossible.
TI,,Jo kbooo ruIp n q
dictator of the country as though he were en-
peror and ruling in the most despotic govern
ment on the globe.
One of the grand missions of our party is to
Danish forever from American politics that de-
plorable spirit of sectional hatred which for
base purposes has been fostered by the leaders
of the old parties. This has greatly deceived
and embittered the public mind, both North
and South. Our civilizatit demands new
party, dedicated to the pursuits
of peace, aud which will not allow
war issues ever to be reopened, and will render
the military subservient to the civil power.
The war is over and the voice of peace, long
neglected, calls us to worship at her affairs.
Let US crowd her temples with living votaries.
Let us have tree ballot, fair count and
equal rights for all classes-for the laboring
man in Northern manufactures, mines and
workshops and for the struggling poor, both
black and white, in the cotton fields of the
South.
1 most earnestly and solemnly invoke the
united action of all industrial classes, irres-
pective of party, that we may make the manly
struggle for the independence of labor and to
establish in the administration of public af-
fails, the old time Democracy of Jefferson and
the pure Republicanism of Abraham Lincoln
and Thaddeus Stevens.
In consequence of the great avenues to pub
lie opinion, the press, bar and pulpit being
mainly under control of the enemies of our
movement, your convention thought proper to
request its candidates to visit various sections
of the union and talk to the people. 1t il
my intention to comply with this request
to the extent of my ability AN now declaring all
| violence and tumult as unworthy of the cause
we represent, and relying upon Divine Provi-
dence and the justice of our cause, let us &C
| forth in the great struggle for human rights.
| With high regards, am your obedient ser.
want,
| TSjpnedl J. B. WEAVER.
Death in a Rafiroa Yard.
| Especial Telegram to the Globe.l
| MILWAUKEE, July 2.-William Williams,
foreman of gang of railroad laborers in the