Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1888-09-01
REPUBLICAN
PLATFORM OF THE WHINE
MUcCA CONVENTION.

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country so great and prosperous during tn
last quarter of a century.
| IL.
Resolved, That the question Of a sufi
cient supply Of circulating medium I,
maintain q permanent range Of the pric,
of labor and property Is the most impor
tant political question awaiting solution
by the American people.
That diminishing quantity Of money
reduces the price of labor and property
enriches the creditor, impoverishes tn,
debtor, and paralyzes industry and enter
prise.
That the present financial system Of the
United States, which increases or dimin
ishes the circulating medium at the pleas
ure OF the manipulators Of the nationa
banks, without regard TO the increase oi
population or the wants Of the people. and
which recognizes gold alone as the stand
ard Of value, and places in the hands OF
the Treasury Department all the revenue
of the Government to speculate with in
bonds and loan to the national banks
without interest, is subseTsive OF the
people, oppressive, unjust and should be
repudiated.
That q financial policy whereby both
gold an / silver shall form the basis of cir.
culation, whether the money used by the
people be coin, or coin certificates redeem.
able in coin or both, as convenience may
require. is imperatively demanded.
That the attempt to substitute national
bank notes, costing the Government mil.
lions of dollars annually, for free silver,
costing nothing, Is an outrage upon the
people; that the money ring or trust,
which has usurped the sovereign power OF
the Government to issue money, and which
has fraudulently demonetized silver and
seized the revenues of the Government for
private speculation, shocks the moral sense
of the people and destroys respect for gov.
ernment and law. We demand that this
ring or trust be destroyed, and equal rights
be restored to all the people.
We charge that President Cleveland is
the willing tool or agent OF a powerful
money ring, which fattens on the subsi-
dies of the Government, makes war on sill
yer, issues its paper currency at the ex-
pense of the Government, bOrrOws the
revenues raised by taxation and uses them
without the payment Of interest, contracts
the currency to enhance the value of
bonds, and enriches usurers, while it de.
presses the price of labor and property.
That we favor the nomination of no
man for President who is personally inter.
ested in national banks or the bonded in.
debtedness of the United States, but we
demand a candidate who is free to do jus
tice 10 all the people of the countryside
poor as well as the rich.
That the trick of the President and his
advisers by which they prevented vote in
the House Of Representatives on the Beck
silver amendment to the Bond Purchase
bill, equals the villainy of the secret and
fraudulent demonetization Of silver in
1873.
Resolved, That we are in favor of the
protection Of home industry, and that the
laborers of this country have d right to all
the work required 20 supply the people Of
the United States. and that we are In fa-
vor of high wages, and TO that end will
protect the wage workers from competi-
tion with the cheap labor of other lands.
Nv.
Resolved, That the policy of the Gov
ernment should be inaugurated and estab-
lished by the people through their repre-:
sentatives in both Houses of Congress, and
not by the President or money trust, of
which he, either as agent or head, Is most
active in defending.
V.
We charge President Cleveland with
violating every promise he made in favor of
civil service reform, with crippling the
mail service, with refusing to sign neces.
sary bills for the improvement of rivers and
harbors, with using the power of his ad-
ministration to prevent appropriations for
navy and coast defenses, with attempting
to destroy the protective tariff, with court
ing the good will of other nations at the
expense of the citizens Of the United
States, and with joining the foreign bond.
holders to demonetize silver and destroy
the industries ot his own country, and for
the reduction of the wages Of the Mint
employees at Carson, for closing the Carson
Mint when it was not only self-sustaining
but a source Of revenue to the Govern
ment, for his contemptuous vstoes of bills
for the relief of disabled soldiers and sail
ors, and for failing to construct the Gov.
ernment building at Carson as required by
law.
We favor the reduction of the Treasury
surplus by the payment of pensions to
Union soldiers, their widows and orphans,
the improvement of rivers and harbors,
the building of defenses for the sea coast,
the erection of public buildings, the crea.
tion of a navy, the purchase of bonds snt
the repeal of the internal revenue law.
taxing tobacco.
It is the duty of this State to maintain
free, non-sectsrian schools in the rural ant
sparseIy settled districts. as well as il
towns and thickly populated sections, ant
that such division of the school money
shall be made as will furnish the mean
of education to all children Of the State.
VIII.
We are in favor Of reopening the Carsoi
Mint for coinage and raising the wage
of its employees 10 the standard paid b.
the last administration.
We demand the restoration of the mai
service in this State to the effieienc,
maintained by the last Republican admin
istration, and favor the payment of fai
wages to all postal employees.
| Y.
We are in favor of the absolute exclu
sion of Chinese, and of the restriction o
| immigration by which the overchaIge
| condition Of the labor market is mad
worse, and we favor legislation by whic
| a revision of our naturalization and Ian
laws may be accomplished.
| XI.
We demand in behalf of our various in
| dustries the retention Of the duties on lead
borax, soda, hides and leather, and to II
store the tax of 1867 on wool.
XII.
Resolved, That we recognize the righ
of labor to organize for its lawful prote,
tion.
XIII.
We favor the granting to Nevada Of a
Government land within the State for tn
purpose of providing means for irrigatio
and other Improvements.