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ELMIRA^ BAZOO. VOL. 1 ELMIRA. N. Y., SEPTEMBER 8,1877. NO. 60 [Continued from Third Page.] 2tl. The payment of the five-twenty bonds of the Government, according to the contract under which they were issued, viz., in legal tender notes, aud the enactment of laws whereby all debts of the National Government, of States, Municipalities or Corporations, shall be paid principal and interest in the lawful money of this country. We deem this important, because it is notorious that all changes that have been made as to the payment of public debts during the past twelve years, have been the result of corruption through which a majority of Congress and other high public officials and a portion of the public press have been subsidized to cast their votes or influence i n favor of capital and against the best interests of the people. 3d. That all money issued by the govern- ment, whether paper, gold or silver, should be a full legal tender, i n payment of all debts, pub- lic and private, and that all bonds of the gov- ernment should be I 'nade to bear their fair share of public burdens. 4th. The repeal of the resumption act, the re-enactment of laws making silver money a leg- al tender i n payment of debts without limit. 5. That all money be issued by the govern- ment without the intervention of any National Banking System—preventing the issue of bank notes as money. 6th. The enactment of laws defining the number of hours which shall constitute a day's labor, with the privilege of increasing or dimin- ishing such time, or any basis of mutual agree- ment between the employer and employed, and ' for the better protection of laborers i n collecting their dues. 7th. The reduction of the capital of railroads telegraph and all other corporations chartered for public use, to the amount actually levied on and paid by their stock and bond-holders for the properly they represent, so that both producer and consumer will be benefitted by cheap trans- portation, and operatives enabled to get fair pay for their services, instead of all being compelled to suffer, in order to pay dividends on hundreds of millions of watered or fictitious capital. 8th That coal, salt and iron are the free gifts of a kind Providence, and that no corpor- ation should be permitted to exercise a monopoly over them, or levy unjust exactions on the peo- ple for them. 9th. That the time has come for the working classes of the United States to respectfully de- mand of Congress the passage of laws to appro- priate a liberal amount of greenback currency sufficient in volume to employ the idle, but willing to work, mechanics and laborers who are now suffering, with their families, almost to starvation, they being unable to get employment to earn the price of the ordinary necessaries of life. We call upon the Senate and House of Rep- resentatives for immediate action upon this question, believing the right time for Congress to push forward all public Government work is at times like the present, when panic and dis- tress are abroad i n the land. By their prompt action confidence will be at once restored and the idle machinery now rusting itself out, will be put in motion throughout the land, and a new era of prosperitv i n the future will surely be the result. We hope congress will act at once, and receive the blessings of a distressed and suffering people. loth. Reform in our State prisons means the oppression of mechanical labor. The tradesman suffers to make our prisons paying institutions, instead of capital being taxed for the support of convict labor. The mechanical branches alone are oppressed by it. The mechanic bears the weight of oppression that capital may escape its share of the burden. Prisons are established for the purpose of con- fining persons who commit offenses against the people of the State, aud the State should support its convicts i n a way which would bear equally upon the rich and the poor. The mechanic will cheerfully pay his proportion for the support of the convict. By order of the Executive Committee S. G. RICE, Chairman State Central Com. Albany, N. Y. Secretaries.
