The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1882-09-07
PLATFORM
Or rHI NATIONAL. GREENBAcR-LABoR PARrY OF
THE uNfrEp STATES, ADOPTED At CHICAGO
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Or rnI NArroNAr. GREENBAcR-H4ABoR PARTY or
THE UNfrEp BTATEs ADOPTED At CHICAGO
JtNk y, 1880.
/. that tic f,rl,t 70 make and Issue money j.
= sovereign power to bs maintained BY the PEG
pie for tho common benefit. This delegaaioN
Of this right to corporations is 4 surrender N
tho central attribute Of sovereignty void Of
CONSTITUTIONAL sanction, comforting upon sub
ordinate irresponsible power and absolute do
minion over industry and commerce. All
money, whether metallic ct paper, should be
issued and its volume controlled BY the tsOv-
porations, and, when 30 issued, should be
full legal tender for all debts. public and pri-
vate.
2. That the bonds Of tho United States
should not be refunded, but paid - rapidly %
practicable, according 10 contract To enable
legal-tender currency should DO substituted
for the notes Of the national banks, the ma
tional-banking system abolished, and tho un-
limited coinage OF silver, - we'll - gold, e.
tablished by law.
8. That labor should be 20 protected by
national and State authority as to equalize its
burdens. and insure Just distribution OF its
results the eight-hour law Of Congress should
be enforced the sanitary condition Of indus
trial establishments placed under rigid control |,
tho competition Of contract convict labor abol-
ished; a bureau Of labor statistics established |,
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 serfs necessarily
bends to brutalize and degrade American labor,
therefore immediate steps should be taken to
abrogate the Burlingame treaty.
B. Railroad land grants forfeited by reason OF
nun-fulfillment Of contract should be immedi-
ately reclaimed by the Government, and hence
forth the public domain reserved exclusively -
homes for actual settlers.
6. It is the duty Of Congress 10 regulate In
ter-State commerce. All lines Of communica-
ton and transportation should be brought UNI
der such legislative control ~ shall secure mod
crate, fair and uniform rates for passenger and
freight traffic.
Z. We denounce O. destructive 70 prosperity.
and dangerous to liberty, the actions Of the old
parties in fostering and sustaining gigantic
land, railroad and money corporations and mo-
nopolies, invested with and exercising powers
belonging to the Government, and not respon-
sible to 1t for the manner Of their exercise.
8. That the constitution, giving Congress tho
power to borrow money, to declare war, to raise
and support armies, to provide and MAINTAIN .
navy, never intended that the men who loaned
their money for an interest consideration should
be preferred to the soldier and sailor who
perilcd 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
eliminated against him and in favor Of tho
bondholder.
8. All property should bear Its Just proper
ton OF taxation, and we demand . graduated
income tax.
10. We denounce as most dangerous the eff
forts everywhere manifest to restrict the rights
Of suffrage.
IL. We are opposed TO m increase OF the
standing army in time Of peace, and the in
sidiOus scheme to establish an enormous mill
itary power under the guise OF militia laws
IL. 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
dent.
Is. We demand Government OF the people,
by the people and FOR the people, instead Of
holders and for the bondholders, and we de-
nounce every attempt to stir up sectional strife
% an effort to conceal monstrous crimes
against the people.
IA. In the fnrthcrance Of these ends We ask
the cooperation Of all fair-minded people,
We have no quarrel with individuals, wage no
war upon classes, but only against vicious in
situations. We are not content to endure fur
tier 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 unwarantable power over our institu-
tons and over our life and property.