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and advocates of inflation into an effective weapon 

 as a single united party. This conference, which 

 was attended by several hundred delegates from 

 twenty-eight States, adopted "National" as the 

 name of the party, but it was usually known from 

 this time on as the Greenback Labor party. The 

 Toledo platform, as the resolutions adopted by this 

 conference came to be designated, first denounced 

 "the limiting of the legal-tender quality of green- 

 backs, the changing of currency-bonds into coin- 

 bonds, the demonetization of the silver dollar, the 

 excepting of bonds from taxation, the contraction 

 of the circulating medium, the proposed forced re- 

 sumption of specie payments, and the prodigal 

 waste of the public lands." The resolutions which 

 followed demanded the suppression of bank notes 

 and the issue of all money by the Government, such 

 money to be full legal -tender at its stamped value 

 and to be provided in sufficient quantity to insure 

 the full employment of labor and to establish a rate 

 of interest which would secure to labor its just re- 

 ward. Other planks called for the coinage of silver 

 on the same basis as that of gold, reservation of the 

 public lands for actual settlers, legislative reduction 

 of the hours of labor, establishment of labor bu- 

 reaus, abolition of the contract system of employing 



