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

national money, issued by the
Government, stamped full
legal tender III payment Of all debts,
public and private, not national-bank-
ing currency wanting the essential at.
tribute OF money, \ full legal-tender
capacity.
THE GREENBACKERs.
Meeting Of the National Cosnnsitt-e.
The National Committee of the Green
back Labor party met at st. Louis at 10
o'clock q. m. Tuesday, May %. Jesse
Harper. Of Illinois was made Chairman.
Fourteen members and twenty-eight
proxies we're present, and West Virginia
was the only State not represented.
Discussion was raised as to the right Of
proxies, but nothing was done. It was
moved and carried that committee be
appointed to formulate an address to the
people, OF which two million copies
could be printed. The Chairman an
nounced the following as the committees:
J. w. Baldwin, Connecticut: F. 8.
Heath, Pennsylvania; +. H. Gillette,
Iowa; James Buchanan, Indiana; E.
Howe, New York; j. w. Begole. Mich
igan: Il w. Ruter, Florida w. Mar
tin, District Of Columhia James b.
Weaver, Iowa; George O. Jones, New
York Samuel Wood, Kansas.
A recess was then taken until 2
o'clock.
The afternoon session was consumed
in speech making by members of the
general committee, while the sub.com-
mittee la ored over the address. Both
sides OF the questions which agitate the
party were represented in this commit
tee, and it was not until nearly IL
o'clock at night that they harmonic d
their differences and reached a result.
That result was the following address,
which was adopted by vote Of IL to l,
and was presented to tile general COM
mittee by George O. Jones, Of New
York
AN ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED
STATES.
The National Committee OF the National
Green a.k-LabOr party submit the following for
the candid consideration of the American poo
pie:
We charge that legislation, both State and
national, during the past twenty years. has
been in the interest OF incorporative capital ut
the expense OF labor and tho general busincss
interests Of the country. The results OF such
legslation-haye been to create the present ma
tional hank monopoly. which controls the vol-
unc Of currency regulates tic employment and
compensation Of labor. determines the valne Ut
property, and the business prosperity OF the
whole people; the railroad monopoly, which
imposes unreasonable burdens on the people by
tr0
necessaries Of life between producers and con-
sumers in order to pay interest or dividends cn
watered securities, IN violation OF the fnnda-
mental law OF public use. without which no Leg
islativc sanction can be given for the con.
structon Of railroads or other highways
the telegraph monopoles, which manipulate
or suppress Mt their pleasure valuable public
information, to the manifest injury OF tho pco-
pie, who are compelled to pay unreasonable
rates for the use OF telegraphs for the trausac-
ton Of private business. The land monopoliee,
which have absorbed more lands than were
covered by tho original thirteen States and
which threaten the establishment in this country
OF a moro dangerous landed aristocracy than
now afflicts any country IN Europe. Tho con-
censration OF vast fortunes in the hands Of .
few men who, cxercisng dangerous influences
over free institutions, threaten the liberties OF
the American people. They have entered into
politics and use the money ext0rted from labor
to corrupt legislative bodies. courts Of justice
and the ballot, the only hope OF free govern
ments. We charge that both the Republican
and Democratic parties are alike responsible for
the legislation complained OF, and they are now
uniting in Senatorial combinations in Con-
gress and elsewhere to defeat needed r0for lns
and pcrpetnate existing abuses, ~ illustrated
by their recent votes in Congress extending the
charters OF national banks. We charge that
both Of the old parties perpetnatc their exist.
arO /, In a0rttnnAl induces
which ahond no longer be tolerated III THU
land, and never can be removed except through
new and living questions Of equal interest N
every home throughout the whole country, and
tina. tho tendency Of both 10 to the disintegra-
on OF the liberty Of the people and the ov sr-
the position occupied by the old parties wc sub
init the following brief summary Of our lrinci
pies. and ask the people to give them theil
careful aud candid consideration "a ths
only practical remedy for the wrongs abDn
which almost universal complaint II nov
made, and the bcst means Of ~
| storing to the people the rights Il
ment: We are opposed to the monopoly d
money through the nationalbanking system
and are in favor OF the Government issuing al
currency, making it . full legal tender, an.
keeping its volume uniform. We are opposed
| to the regulation by railroad aud telegraph,
nOnOpOHeS VI tue cnaTEeH IOr transporting ktI
sons and property. aud for the use Of tclegraphs
and hold that all corporations created by lsv
shall be governed By law, in the interest OF th,
people. We are opposed TO the monopoly o
land, and demand that all public lands. inclnd
| ing those forfeited by Noncompliance with th'
laws, shall be- held for actual settlers. We fAvo
| revision Of the tariff laws in the interest u
American labor, and not in the inter
| est Of rich corporations and monopolies
| We hold that the representatives OF labor hav'
the right to combine to enforce al Of their con
stitn:ional rights. aud should be protected b
law in so doing. We are opposed 70 all Monopo
lies, aud are IN favor os equal rights. equs
! burdens, equal taxation, and equal bene6ts 70
ALL with u ecial privileges for none. aud We hol
that il the best government wherein An injur
| to one il tho concern OF all We favor tho pay
mcnt OF the national debt and oppose it, bein
refunded III any form, and We invite al mem
bcrs Of and leagues, farmers alliances, trade
unions, antl-monopoly leagues. producer
movements. knights OF Labor. and Ill otht
industrial orga anzations and good citlzens wh
believe in the foregoing statement Of principle
to unite with Us in carrying them to slcces,
! full issue at the ballot-box.