Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1878 — National State Platform. [ARTICLE]

National State Platform.

The National Greenback Labor Party of Indiana-, in convention assembled, declare: 1. We declare our fealty to the American mon- ■ etary system—the abolition of ail baukissnes, the ' free’and unlimited coinage of gold aud silver, and ; the issuing by the government of full paper money.' receivable for all dues and payable for debtis public ami private, in amount sufficient to meet the wants of tiade. to give employment to all labor, and to enable the people to ao a cash business, aud to relieve them from the debt system which has made the industrial and commercial classes the slaves and drudges of the creditmongers of the wofid. 2. We declare our opposition to every measure i looking to the resumption of specie payments, the I monarchical system of finance which puts all the ; interests of industry, trade and commerce in the hands of the few, and enforces a monopoly of wealt h destructive of the highest material good of ' society. 3. We proclaim our uncompomising hostility to I the perpetuation of the system of goverment bond- i ed indebtedness which is intended tohindunborn ! generations in chains, aud we declare that the | government should use all the funds now hoarded ' for resumption purposes to pay and cancel out- ; standing bonds, and that it should mni.dnew and ! ii neral issues of money to be applied to the same i purposa; and that the issue ol future interestbeaung bonds should be prohibited by constilu- ■ tional amendment 4. We demand that, all legislation should be so enacted and so administered as to secure to each man, as nearly us practicable, thu just reward of his own labor; and we denounce ail lawlessness. i violence aud fraud that refuses submission to the will of the people honestly expressed through t.he ballot. 5. We denounce the red Hag communism imported from Europe, which asks for an equal division of property, and we denounce the communism of the national banks, of the bond syndicates, and of the consolidated railroad corporations, which have secured and are enforcing an unequal division of property, having already divided among themselves ten thousand millions of the pioperty of the people by corrupting the rapresentatives aud'servauts of the people. The one system of communism ignores the inequalities of capacity which have been planted by nature in the human family, and both systems are destructive of the rewards of toil and of the incentive to industry and exertion. 6. We declare that until the American monetary system, which will result in the practical extinction of debt and usury is established the State should by all the powers that it can exert, limit and reduce the rate of interest so that it shall in no event exceed the average increase of wealth by productive industry. 7. We favor simple, plain and economical gov eminent, as few laws as possible, and they rigidly enforced— as few officials as practicable, and,they held to a close accountability. To this end we demand the abolition of all useless offices, and the overthrow of the system by which offices are made ito vield almost princely fortunes, ft is the first duty ol the next general assembly ol Indiana to secure such legislation as shall make it impossible for any local or State official to receive more than adequate pay tor his services; and when practicable the compensation should be fixed by a specific salary. 8. We denounce the conspiracy of the Democratic aud Republican leaders of Indiana to build a costly and magnificent state house, which, as exp.'lienee has proved in all similar cases, would result in the general plundering of the people. — We denounce tile action of the governor in calling a special session of the legislature for the purpose of fostering this scheme. We denounce the indecent haste with which the state house commissioners are proceeding to let a contract to bind the people of the state, and we demand that no contract shall be let until the, voters of the state have had an opportunity to express their will upon the ■ subject through the legislature to be chosen iu October next. 9. We protest against the weak and ineffective election laws of Indiana, and we ask that the next legislature shall enuct statutes which shall secure fair elections in the state, and which shall provide ‘ severe and adequate punishment for fraudulent voters, and for those who bribe voters or procure fraudulent votes. 10. Wc denounce the criminal and unfair apportionment of the legislative and congressional districts of the state in the interest of the Republican party, and the equally unjust apportionments made in the past by the Democratic party, aud we pledge our members of the legislature to vole for a lair and equitable apportionment which shall secure n full and untrammeled expression of the sentiments of the people. 11. The State shall enact, laws which will abrogate the abuses and protect the interests of men who work iu mines, by providing for the proper ventilation of the mines; and the earnings of all employees of corporations should be a first lieu upon tiie property of said corporations. 12. If it wise and needful in 1897, when money was plenty and the country prosperous to enact a" bankrupt jaw. it is certainly humane now to amend such law so to prevent frauds and to continue in force this last escape of the oppressed debtor from the extortions of the money power And we favor the exemption of iiot less than worth of property to the householder from forced sale on execution. 13. The constitution should be so amended that the President, Vice-President and Senator.- of lite United States shall be elected by direct vote of the people. 14. We are unalterably opposed to adding to the burthens of the people by an increase of the standing army, believing with Washington that "overgrown military establishments under any form of government are inauspicious to liberty, and particularly hostile to i epublican liberty.” 15. We indorse and reaffirm the platform of principles ncopted at Toledo. February 22.1878. and we | congratulate the country upon the union of the ' political interests subserving the useful ranks of I society, in one party which shall advance this decree to a higher and better civilization and this | olde-t gospel, that there shall be work for all and ■ that all Shall work.

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