Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-08-12

the government and not by or through
the banking corporations, and when 81
issued, should be full legal tender 70
all debts, public and private.
2. That the bonds of the United State:
should not be refunded, but paid as rap
idly as is practicable, according to con
tract. TO enable the government tC
meet these obligations, legal-tender cur
| rency should ba substituted for the notes
of the national banks, the national bank
ing system abolished and the unlimited
coinage of silver as we'll as gold estab
! liShcd by law
3. That labor should lie SO protected by
national and State authority as to equal
iZe it's burdens and insure just distribu
tion or it's results the eight hour law OF
Congress should be enforced; the santa
ry condition of industrial establishments
| placed under rigid control; the Competi
ton of contract convict labor abolished
a bureau of labor statistics established
factories. mines and workshops inspect
ed; the employment of children under II
years of age forbidden, and wages paid il
cash.
4. Slavery being simply cheap labor
and cheap labor being simyly slavery
the importation and presence Of Chinese
serfs necessarily tends to brutaliZ3 and
degrade American labor; therefore, i'm,
mediate steps should be taken to abrogatC
the Burlingame treaty.
5. Railroad land grants forfeited by
reason of fulfillment of contract
should bo Immediately reclaimed by the
government; and henceforth the public
domain reserved exclusively as homes
for actual settlers
6. 1t is the duty Of Congress to regu-
late Interstate commerce.. All lines Ot
communication and transportation should
be brought under legislative control as
shall secure moderte, fair and uniform
rates for passenger and freight traffic.
I. We denounce as destructive to pros
perity and dangerous to liberty the ac-
tion of The old parties in fostering and
sustaining gigantic land, railroad and
money corporations and monopoles in
vested with and exercising powers be-
longing to the government, and yet not
responsible to it for the manner Of their
exercises.
8. That the constitution, in giving Con
greSS the power to borrow money, to de-
clare war, to raise and support armies, to
provide and maintain a navy, never in
tended that the men who loaned their
money for Ell interest consideration
should be preferred to the soldier and
sailor who periled their lives and shed
their blood on land and sea in defense of
their country, and we condemn the cruel
class legislation OF the Republican party
which, while protesting great gratitude
for the soldier, has most unjustly dis
crlminatcd against him and in favor of
the bondholder.
9. All property should bear its just pro-
portion OF taxation, and we demand q
graduated incOme-taX.
10. We denOunce as most dangerous
the efforts everywhere manifest to re-
strict the right of suffrage.
II. We are opposed to an increase of
the standing army in time of peace and
the insidiouS scheme to establish an
enormour military power under the guse
of militia laws.
-. We demand absolute democratic
rules for the government of Congress,
placing all representatives Of the people
upon an equal footing and taking away
from committees a veto power greater
than that Of the President.
l3. We demand Il government of the
people, by the people and for the people
instead Of Il government of the bond
holders, by the bOndholders and for the
bondholder; and we denounce every at
tempt to stir up sectional strife as an
effort to conceal monStrous crimes agSinst
the people.
IA. In the furtherance Of these ends we
ask the cooperation of all fair-minded
people. We have no quarrel with indi-
viduals, wage no war upon classes, but
only against vicious institutions. We
nat
cipline from our present actual rulers,
who having dominion over money, over
transportation, over land, labor and large
ly over the press and machinery of COVER
ment, WELD unWarrantable power over
our institutions, and over life and proper
ty.