The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-08-12
FREE sILvERITE's PLATFORM.
Declaration OF Principles as Ad,pte,

Declaration OF Principles as Ad ,pted
and Given Out by the Convention.
The resolutions of which the con.
vention was finally delivered, their
adoption meeting with bitter opposl-
ton on the part of the enbackers
are printed below. They constitute
the declara ion of prime pies ON which
TIE populist free-silverite convention
will appeal to the people and to con.
grcsS:
Whereas, Bimetallism is as ancient
as human history: certainly for more
than a,C00 years gold and silver came
down through the ages hand in hand.
their relations to each other having
varied but few points in all that
vast period of time, and then most in
varia bly, through legIslation: and,
Whereas, The two metals are named
together. indissolubly united in the
Constitution Of the United States, as
the money basis of this country,
placed there by George Washington.
Thomas jefferson, John Adams, Alex
ander Hamilton, and their associates
and subsequently Endorsed and de
Tended by Andrew Jackson and Abra-
ham Line, In: and,
Whereas, The purpose Of this a tack
upon one of the two ancient precious
metals of the world was by striking
down on, half of the money supply
to wit silver-to double the purrhas-
ing power of the remainder, gold. by
making it the equivalent of everything
p sseSsed or produced by the labor OF
man. thus reducing the price of all
commodities, arrestlng enterprise, inn
poverishing the toiler, and degrading
I'll IND
not only inevitable tut foreseen ap
pears by the following language used
at that time by the then president of
the Bank of France, who said: I'll by
n stroke of the pen they suppress one
of these metals the monetary serv-
ice they double the demand for the
other metal, to the ruin o. all debt
ors :: and,
Whereas The awful consequences
thus prophesied are now upon the
people of the who world, we stand
in the midst of unparalleled distress.
and in the shadow of impending cal
antilles which are beyond estimate.
The Ri ing industry of the people who
inhabit one Thrill of the area of this re-
public has been stricken down. prop
erty values destroyed, and The work
men compelled to fly as from pesti-
lence. Everywhere over this br al
land the honest toilers. numbering
hundreds of thousands, have been
thrown out of employment, and will,
have to eat the hi ter bread of charity
or starve. The products of Industry,
of the farm and the workshop, have
deprecated in price as shown by
official and public statistics. until pro-
ducti ceases to be protitable the
mo ey of the country, inadequate ia
the business of the land, has gravitated
10 the banks: while the people,, dis
trusting the banks, have demanded
their deposits to hoard or hide them
mercantile houses are going TO the
wall by thousands because the masses
have not the means to buy evSi
the necessities of life: TO supply the
lack of currency the banks of the great
cities have issued substitute for
money unknown to the laws, called
Gearing house certificates: the move
ment o the great crops now b ing
gathered demands vast amount OF
currency. which the banks are unabl,
TO furn sh and in the midst of these
conditions the daily press are clamo
ing for the repeal of the act of July
IL, 1899. called the Sherman act, al
though the repeal of that act means
the stoppage of the issue of more than
80, 900. U0J every month; thus shutting
off the supply o funds for the business
of the country in the midst OF the ter
rible conditions which surround us:
and ignoring the fact that to hold the
balance level between the debtor an,
creditor classes the supply of currency
must incre Sc side 'y side with the in
crease Of popnlatiJn and business