Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-24
NATIONAL GREENBACKBRS.
The Platform Of tho Party 40 Evolved By
the Committee at st. Louis.

the Committee at st. Louis
ST.. LOUIS, May 2S.-The national conyen.
ton OF the Greenback labor party met this
morning at 10 o'clock, JeEse Harper (Ill.) was
chairman, fourteen members and twenty.eipht
proxies were present and West Virginia was
the only state not represented. The discus
sion was raised as to the right of proxies,
but nothing was done. It was moved and
carried that q committee be appointed to
formulate an address to the people, of which
100000 copies should be printed. The
chairman announced the following as COM
mittee: J. W. Baldwin, Connecticut; F. 8.
Heath, Pennsylvania; Fl. Gillette, Iowa;
James Buchanan, Indiana; E. Howe, New
York; j. W. Begale, Michigan; R. W. Rute,
Florida; VIM. Martin, District of Columbia;
JOS. B. Weaver, Iowa; Geo. O. Jones, New
York; Samuel Wood, Kanas. A recess was
then taken until o'clock.
The afternoon session was consumed in
speech-making by members OF the general
committee. while the subcommittee labored
over the address. Both sides of the ques ton
which agitated the party were represented In
the committee, and it was not until nearly II
O'Clock tonight that they harmonized the diff
ferences and reached aresult. The result was
the following address, which was adopted by
vote OF IL for and l against, and was pre-
sented to the general committee at II o'clock
by George A. Jones, of New York:
Address to tbs people Of the United States
The national committee of educational Greenback
party submit the following for the candid considers
ton Of the American people:
We claim that legislation, both state and national,
during the past twenty six years. has been In the in
terest OF tncoporave capital at the expense Of labor
and the general business interests Of the country.
The results OF such legislation have been to create
the present national bank monopoly which controls
the volume of currency, regulates the employment
and compensation of labor, determines the valne of
property and the business prosperity Of the whole
people.
1he railroad monopoly which impose unreason-
able burdens on the people by establishing unjust
rates for transportation Of the necessaries of life be-
tween producers and consumers in order to pay in
terest or dividends Of watered securities in vi lston
OF the fundamental laws Of public use, without
which no legislative sanction can be given for the
construction OF railroad. or other highways; the
telegraph monopolies which manipulate or suppress
at their pleasure valuable public information to the
manifest injury of the people who are compelled to
pay unreasonable rates for the use of telegraph
for the transaction of private business; the
landa monopolies which have absorbed more
lands than were covered by the original thirteen
states and which threatens the establishment In this
country Of q more dangerous landed arstocracy
than now affects any country in Europe; the con-
centrstion Of vast fortunes in the hands of a few
men who exercise dangerous influences free in
st tutions, threaten the liberties OF the American
people. They have entered into politics and use the
money, e4tol ted from labor to corrupt legislative
bodies courts of justice and the ba lots the only
hope of free government We charge that both
the Republican and Democratic parties are alike re-
sponsible for the legislation complained Of and they
are now uniting in senatorial combinations in con-
gress aud elst where to defeat the needed reforms
and perpetate the existing abuses, illustrated by
their recent votes in congress extending the char
tiers of national banks.
We charge that both Of the old parties perpetuate
their exist through app aIs to sectional preju
dice which should no longer be tolerated in this
land a. never can be removed except through new
and living questions of equal interest throughout
the whole country and that the tendency of both Is
to the destruction of the liberty of the people and
the overthrow of free government.
Iuopposition to the position occupied by the old
parties we submit the following brief summary Of
our principles, and ask the people to give them
their careful and candid consideration as the only
practical remedy for the wrongs about which almost
universal complaint is now made, and the best means