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General Weaver Accepts the NOmiRa.
y ti0a for the Presidency.
BLooMrrErp. Iowa, July .

BLOOMFIELD, Iowa, July 2.
Generals. B. Weaver, the Green
back-La5or nominee for the Presidency,
has addressed the following letter to the
committee which was appointed to mott
" him Of his nomination: F.
/ Hons s. F. Norton E. II. Gillette. SoIon Chase.
b. - 5. D. DiuaYe and E. 2. Alis, Committee:
j GENTLENEN3 IL is my pleasure 10 5ackHowl-
= edge the receipt 81 your lettec Of slIe Rld 81
/ June formally notify ing me Of nv nomination
u The Office vi President Of the United States
BY the united Cfreenback-La6or psrtT. whose
REPRESENTATIVES,. convened at Chicago June 9,
1880. GSEa sA.se a2tf +sE.E FgFF
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The three great political parties have each
selected their candidates, and made formal
declaT ions of their principles. 1t IS now the
high duty of every citizen OF the United States
to judge between them, and, after careful in
quiry into the aims and purposes of each, to
determine the organization with which duty
calls him to act.
The admirable platform adopted by. the Con-
D vention meets my cordial app oval. II is com
prehensive, reasonable and progressive, con-
tanning those principles of economic reform
essential to the preservation of the liberty
and prosperity of the whole people. 4 n
IL being the duty of man to earn his bread
in the sweat of his face, it becomes the first
duty of civil government to foster industry.
All laws, therefore, which place a premium
upon fdl ness, whether of men or money, I'M
justly discriminate in favor of capital, or
withhold from honest men the full and justre
ward of their labor, are simply monstrous.
Capital should be the servant of labor rather
than its master. This great truth can never
be realized until there is an adequate circulate
ing medium. Inasmuch as this circulating
medium is for the benefit of all, its issue and
volume should be sacredly kept under the
I control of the General Government, without
the intervention of banking CORPORATIONS. All
money, whether gold, silver or p per, should
be issued by the supreme authority of the Ma
ton, and be made full legal tender in pay
ment of all debts, public and private.
The system which now prevails gives into
the hands of banking corporations absolute
! control over the volume of the currency, and
through this they have the power to fX the
I price of the labor and property of j000000 of
people. BY provision of law the method is
clearly defined whereby they may, without
limit, initiate or contract the currency at will
Cognate TO this, and a part OF the same.
scheme, stands the system Of funding the
public debt. Like National Banking. TINS was
borrowed from the English monarchy. By
this system an enormous nOn-taNable, intere It
bearing debt is to be perpetuated. The bonds
support the banks, and the banks foster the
public debt. If you pay of the bonds the
banks must &c Use 10 exist. Hence, If the Ma
tion9l Banks are to continue, we must have q
perpetual bonded debt. Both patriotism and
. sound craftsmanship loudly cal for the abO-
litiOn of banks Of issue, and the substitution
+. of legal-tender Treasury notes for their circu-
latiOn. Pay the bonds according to contract,
and rs rapidly o. poss bic. ." ..rI ....
Seven hundred millions of the public debt
eminent during this and the ensuing year.
Two Funding biuS are now pending before
Congress-one introduced by the Democratic,
| and the other by the Republican leader of the
| HOuse-whereby it is proposed TO deprive the
J people for twenty and thirty years of the law
full right to pay said bonds. This is a crime
against the labOrer and the taxpayer, and
| should cause widespread alarm among all
| classes.
! The annual surplus revenues and the idle
coin now in the Treasury, and that which must
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proved February %, 1873, shall be honestly
! enforced, are ample to pay every dollar of the
/ seven hundred millions, both principal and
interest, within the next six years. There
| is not the slightest excuse for funding these
/ bonds, except to perpetuate the debt as the
! basis of an Ubiquitous banking monopoly. 1t
/ must be apparent to all that the great mon
/ eyed Institutions and other corporations now
/ have control of nearly every department of
! the Government, and are last swallowing up
/ the profits of labor and reducing the people to
a condition of vassalage and dependence.
! These monopOlles, of whatever class, headed
/ by the associated banks, are interlocked in
! purpose, and always act in closest sympathy.
There are three great industrial classes in
| America: l. The producers; 2. Those who
manufacture our raw materials and prepare
! them for use; 8. The diStri butOrs of these
products. Each should be protected in the
legitimate fruits and profits of their labor, but
should not be permitted to extort from and
! enslave the others. .| .- +. #r...# EMO.
/ The great problem of our civilization is, how
: TO bring the producer and the consumer to-
gether. This can only be done by providing
an adequate circulating medium, and by rigid
regulation of Interstate commerce and trans
pOrtation. This was wisely tOreSeen by the
trainers Of the Constitution, and, accordingly,
by the eighth section of article first Congress
is clothed with power ito regulate commerce
with foreign Nations and among the States.
This power imposes corresponding duty uIOn
Congress to see that it is enforced. The two
great agents of commerce are money and
transportation. II is undeniable that both of
these agents are under the absolute control of
mOnOpDles. BY controlling the volume of
money, the banks fix the price of alllabor and
property; and the railroads, by combination,
render competition impossible, and control
absolutely the price of transportation. This
places the people between the upper and
neither millstones, and grinds them to poverty
and ruin. 1t results in the wholesale robbery
of both producer and consumer. Who is able
to controVert this stupendous fact? Farmers,
planters and labOring men OF the United States,
1 beseech you to open your eyes at once to
this alarming condition of things. l am es-
pecialIy thankful that the platform of the par
ty which placed me in nomination is open,
bod and unmistalsbe on these great Ques-
tionS. The Republican and Democratic plat
forms are either silent with regard to these
vital issues, or they have pronounced in favor
of the monOpOlics and against the people,
With j0O0J0)J Of people looking them in the
face and pleading for relief, they utter not
one word of promise or hope. Their leaders
and platform-makers are in the tolls Of the
syndicate, gigantic bank corporations AMI rail-
T I'D monopOlies, and have neither the dispo-
blow for industrial emancipation.
An area of our public domain larger than
the territory occupied by the great German
Empire has been wantOnly dDnated to wealthy
corporations while bill intl oduced by the
Hon. Hendrick b. Wright, o. Pennsylvania,
TO enable our poor people II reac hand occupy
the few acres remaining has been secuted,
ridicucd and defeated in Congress. In cOIIse-
Qucnce of this stupendOus system Of land
grabbing, millions of the yOun" men of Amer
lea. and millions more of industrious people
from abroad seeking homes in the New Mold,
are lett homeless and destitute. The public
domain must be Sarredly reserved 10 actual
settlers. and where corporations have not
complied strictly with the terms of their
gr lnts. the lands should DC at once reclaimed.
The immigration of persons from foreign
countries, seeking homes, AMI q string 10 he
come citizens of the Unitel states, should be
encouraged, hut the importation Of Chinese
servie labOrers should be prohibited by strin-
gent laws. ..-. 10. ". t.I
While the bondhoder has been paid golf In
return for his deprecated currency, the
soldiers and sailors, who saved our Uuion, our
homes, our money and our affairs, and whose
blood cunseerated every hattlphcld ffOm Bel
mont and D0nelSOn TO GettySbu & an Apo
mattoN, are denied the pittauce justly rue
them under their contract with the Govern
meut-aS though soldiers and sailors could
live on gratitude alone BY the answer Of
SECRETARY Sherman Oi Jane u, 1850, u a ne SEN
ate resolution Of in iutry. IL appears that the
Government paid the soldiers in CIR 'HnJgcFos,
during the war of the IpbelIiun, Sl.2b5lg,-
EE5. Is. The total interest p tii in gold on he
public debt from July l. l,tI, TO June 20, 1873,
was Sl,S09 }0l, 1913. Tho soldier has been
taxed 10 pay this interest wuiie the bon hold
er has gone free. ..... ............ .T. .
Durng the present Congress il has been inn
possible 10 induce the committees TO report a
single bill to remedy existing evils. The i'm
pOitaut comm II eeS of the House are 50 c8lI-
stitutcd, and the despotic rules of that body 50
Interpreted, as to render relief impOssfde-
Under these rules the Speaker is as much
the dictator uT the country q though ne We're
an Emperor and ruling in the most despotic
gOYeumcut on the globe. o.. b.. ..tf..r.. 20 .
Que OF The grand missions of our party is to
Danish forever from American politics that
dep orIble spirst of SECTIONAL hatred, which,
Tor base purposes, has been foStcred BY the
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