People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1895 — Judge Trumbull’s Resolutions. [ARTICLE]

Judge Trumbull’s Resolutions.

Following are the resolutions presented to the late St. Louis conference by Henry D. Lloyd as prepared by Judge Trumbull:' 1. Resolved. That human i brotherhood and equality of rights are cardinal principles of true democracy. 2. Resolved. That, forgetting all past political differences, we unite in the common purpose to rescue the government from the control of monopolists and concentrated wealth, to limit their powers of perpetuation by curtailing their privileges and to secure the right of free speech, a free press, free labor, and a trial by jury—all rules, regulations and judicial dicta in derogation of either of which are arbitrary. unconstitutional, and not to be tolerated by a free people. 3. We endorse the resolution adopted by the national republican convention of 1860, which was incorporated by President Lincoln in his inaugural address, as follows: ‘■That the maintainance inviolate of the right of the states, and especially of the rights of each state to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively, is essential to that balance of power on which the perfection and endurance of our political fabric depends, and we denounce the lawless invasion by armed force on the soil of any state or territory, no matter on what pretext, as among the gravest of crimes." 4. Resolved, That the power given congress by the constitution “to provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, to suppress insurrections. to repel invasion,” does not warrant the government in making use of a standing army in aiding monopolies in the oppression of their employes. When free men unshield the sword it should be to strike for liberty not for despotism or to uphold privileged monopolies in the oppression of the poor. 5. Resolved, That to check the rapid absorption of the wealth of the country and its

perpetuation in a few hands, we demand the enactment of laws limiting the amount of property to be acquired by device or inheritance. 6. Resolved, That we denounce the issuing of interestbearing. bonds by the govern-’ ment in times of peace to be paid for, in part, at least, by gold drawn from the treasury, which results in the government's paying interest on its own money. Resolved, That we demand that congress perform its constitutional duty to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin by the enactment of laws for the free coinage of silver with that of gold at the ratio of 16 to 1. 8. Resolved, That monopolies affecting the public interest should be owned and operated by the government in the inter ests of the people; all employes of the same to be goverend by civil-service rules, and no one to be employed or displaced on account of politics. 9. Resolved, We inscribe on our banners, “Down with monopolies and millionaire control. Up with the rights of man and the masses!” and under this banner we march to the polls and to victory.

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