The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1882-06-01
PLATFORM

Or THE NATIONAL GREENBAcK-LABoR PARTY OF
THE UNITED STATES, ADOPTED At CncAoo
JUNE 8, 1880.
/. That the right to make and issue money il
d sovereign power to be maintained by the poo
pie for the common benefit. The delegation
Of this right to corporations Is . surrender OF
the central attribute OF sovereignty, void Of
constitutional sanction, comforting upon sub
ordinate irresponsible power and absolute do
minion over industry and commerce. ALI
money, whether metallic or paper, should DO
issued and its volume controlled BY tho Gov
eminent, and not by or through banking cor
porations, and, when 20 issued, should be .
full legal tender for all debts, public and pri-
vate.
3. That tho bonds Of the United States
should not be refunded, but paid ~ rapidly %
practicable, according to contract. To enable
the Government to meet these obligations,
legal-tender currency should DO substituted
for tho notes Of the national banks, the ma
tional-banking system abolished, and the I'M
limited coinage Of silver, % we'll - gold, e.
tablished by law.
8. That labor should be, 70 protected by
national and State authority - to equalize IL
burdens and insure Just distribution OF It's
results the cight-hour law Of Congress should
be enforced the sanitary condition Of indus-
trial establishments placed under rigid control |,
the competition Of contract convict labor abol-
u
factories mines and workshops inspected |;
the employment OF children under Il years Of
age forbidden, and wages paid in cash.
4. Slavery being simply cheap labor, and
cheap labor being simply slavery, the importa-
ton and presence Of Chinese scrfs necessarily
bends to brutalize and degrade American labor,
therefore immediate steps should be taken to
abrogate the Burlingame treaty.
5. Railroad land grants forfeited BY reason OF
non-fnliillment Of contract should b immedi-
ately reclaimed BY the Government, and hence
forth the public domain reserved exclusively -
homes for actual settlers.
9, II is the duty Of Congress 70 regulate In
ton and transportation should be brought UNI
der such legislative control as shall secure mod
crate, fair and uniform rates for passenger and
freight traffic.
z. We denounce a. destructive TO prosperity,
and dangerous to liberty, the actions Of the old
parties in fostering and sustaining gigantic
land, railroad and money corporations and mo-
nopoles, invested with and exercising powers
belonging to the Government, and not respon-
sible to it for the manner Of their exercise.
8. That the constitution, giving Congress the
power to borrow money, to declare war, to raise
aud support srmies to provide and maintain .
navy, never intended that the men who loaned
their money for an interest consideration should
be preferred to tho soldier and sailor who
pcriled their lives and shed their blood on land
and sea in defense Of their country, and We
condemn the cruel class legislation Of the Re-
publican party which, while processing great
gratitude to the soldier, has most unjustly dis
crimlna'ed against him and in favor OF tho
bondholdcr.
Q. All property should bear It's Just proper
ton Of taxation, and we demand . graduated
income tax.
10. We denounce az mort dangerous the ef-
forts everywhere manifest to restrict the rights
OF suffrage.
IL. We are opposed TO an increase OF the
standing army in time Of peace, and the in
sldiOus scheme to establish an enormous mill
itary power under the guise OF militia laws
II. We demand absolute democratic rules
Tor 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 Presi-
dent.
Ii. We demand a Government OF the people,
by the people aud for the people, instead OF q
Government of the bondholders, by the bond
holders and for the bondholders, and we de-
nonnce every attempt to stir up sectional strife
as an effort to conceal monstrous crimes
against the people.
IA. In the furtherancc OF these ends we ask
the cooperation of all fair-minded people.
We have no quarrel with individuals, wage no
war upon classes, bat only against vicious in
stltutiOns. We are not content to endure fur
Their discipline from our present actual rulers,
who having dominion over money, over trans
portation, over sea and land, and largely over
the press and the machinery of Government,
WELD unwarrantable power over our institu-
tons and over our life and property