The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1893-08-09

upon US, for 1T is better, rather than
that our liberties should be destroy
ed by tyranny that is depressing hu
manity all over the world, that we
should wade through seas Of blood
to horses bridles.''
Tremendous applause greeted this
remark.
CLEVELAND ROASTED.
Ex-Congressman Pierce of Tennes-
see, was received with great enthusi-
asm, and proceeded to make a speech
which was the sensation of the day
in it's arraignment of President
Cleveland.
Several kilograms were read pledg-
ing different Knights of Labor or
ganizatiOns in the East to the free
coinage of silver.
Judge q. f. Goodwin of Salt Lake
City followed in a half-hour speech
which was loudly applauded. Judge
Goodwin was called out of the crowd
and his speech was a mixture of hu-
NOR and seriousness.
The Platform.
The report of the committee was
now read to the convention by Hon.
Ignatius Donnelly, interrupted by
frequent applause. The platform was
as follows:
! Whereas, Bimetallism is as ancient
as human history, for certainly more
than 5000 thousand years gold and
silver came down through the ages
hand in hand, their relation to each
other having varied but few points
in all that vast period of time and
then almost invariably through leg
islation;
Whereas, The two metals are
named together, indiss solubly y
linked, in the constitution of the
United States, the money basis of
this country, placed there by George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John
Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and
their associates, and subsequently
endorsed and defended by Andrew
Jackson and Abraham Lincoln;
Whereas, Silver, one of these an
cient metals, was, in the year 1878,
without any previous demand by any
political party and by any part of
the people, or even by any news
papers, and without public discus
sion whatever, stricken down from
the place it had occupied since the
days of Abraham and Pharaoh, un-
der circumstances of such secrecy
that Allen G.. Thurman, James
Beck, William M. Stewart, Daniel
w. Voorhees,, James G Blaine, then
speaker of the house, James A. Gar
field, William D. Kelly and others
present and voting for the bill, as
senators or representatives, subse-
quently publicly declared that they
did not know, until long afterwards,
that so grave and great change
had been made in. the financial sys-
tenn founded by the fathers of the
republic:
Whereas, The debates in congress
show that the parentage of the
measure was in part ascribed, by the
friends of the bill, to one Ernest
Seyd, London banker, who, it is
claimed, was sent over to Washing
ton by the monied classes of the old
world to secure it's passage by secret
means; and, whereas; President
Grant, who signed the bill, declared
long subsequently, that he did not
know that it demonetized silver;
| Whereas, This attack upon one of
the precious metals of the world, by
striking down one-half of the money
supply, to-wit, silver, doubled the
purchasing power of the remainder,
gold, by making it the equivalent of
more of everything possessed or pro-
duced by the labor of man; thus re-
duced the price of all commodities,
arresting enterprise, impoverishing
the toiler and degrading mankind;
| uClCdS, L 1C awful COuSCuuCuCCS
are now upon the people of the
whole world; we stand in the midst
of unparalleled distress, and in the
shadow of impending calamities,
which are beyond estimate; the rul-
ing industry of the people who in
habit one-third of the area of this
republic has been stricken down, the
property values destroyed and the
workmen compelled to fly as if from
pestilence; everywhere over this
broad land the honest toilers, num-
bering hundreds of thousands, have
been thrown out of employment and
will have to eat the bitter bread Of
charity or starve; the products of
; industry, of the farm and the work
shop, have deprecated in price, as
shown by official and public stats.
tics, until production ceases to be
profitable; the money of the country,
a.