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

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and will do more to compel the adop.
tlon of bimetallism by the nations
OF Europe than any other means.
OPPOSE ITS REPEAL.
Fourth-We assert that the un-
paralleled calamities which now
affiict the American people are not
due to the so-called Sherman act of
1890, and in proof thereof we call
attention to the fact that the same
evil conditions now prevail over all
the gold states. We are convinced
that bad as is the state of affairs in
the country it would have been still
worse but for the Sherman act, by
which the nation has obtained to
some extent an expanding >circula-
tiOn, to meet the demands of a con-
tinent in process of colonization and
the business exigencies of the most
energetic and Industrious people
that has ever dwelt on the earth;
and we insist upon the execution of
the law without evasion so long as
it is upon the statue books, and up
on the purchase of the full amount
of silver each month that it provides
for, to the end that the monthly ad-
dition to the circulating medium the
law secures shall be maintained.
Fifth-That we would call the at
tention of the people to the fact that
in the midst of all the troubles of the
time, the value of the national bond
and the national legal tender money,
which are made of gold, silver and
paper, has not fallen a particle.
The distrust is not Of the govern
ment or it's money, but of the banks,
which have precipitated the present
panic on the country in an illadvised
effort to control the action of con-
gress on the silver question and is
sue of bonds. We invite the bankers
to attend to their legitimate busi-
ness and permit the rest of the peo-
pie to have their full share in the
control of the governmet. In this
way they will much sooner restore
that confidence which is SO necessary
to the prosperity of the people. 1t
must not be forgotten that while
boards of trade, chambers of COM
merce. bankers and money dealers
are worthy and valuable men in
their places, the republic more safely
reposes upon the great masses of it's
peaceful toilers and producers, and
that this business mans age" is
rapidly exterminating the business
men Of the country. The time has
come when the politics Of the ma
tiOn should revert as far as possible
to the simple and pure conditions
out of which the republic arose. We
suggest for the consideration of our
fellow citizens that the refusal of
the opponents Of bimetallism to pro-
pose any substitute for the present
law or to elaborate any plan for the
| future indicates either an ignorance
of our financial needs or unwilling
ness to take the public into their
confidence; and we denOunce the at
tempt to unconditionally repeal the
Sherman law as an attempt to secure
gold monometallism, in fragrant vio-
lation of the last national platform
of all political parties.
THE RESOLUTIONS.
| For the further consideration of
the convention, but not as a part of
the platform, the committee also re-
ported the following, which was
unanimously adopted:
"The committee further recon-
mend that this convention appoint a
committee composed of one member
from each state and territory, to be
selected by the respective delega-
tions, to act in conjunction with the
American National Bimetallic league,
jointly to devise plan and to pro-
vide ways and means for impressing
upon congress and the people the
impending. perils from the final de-
monetiZation of silver and the adop-
tion Of single gold standard"
The resolution was adopted. and
delegates were reported by the sew
eral states to represent their inter-
ests in the Committee on Ways and
Means, Mr.. Donnelly being appointed
for Minnesota.
The platform was briefly explained
by Chairman Reagan, who then
moved it's adoption, but there were
loud protests from the picturesque
Carl Brown of California. The Cali
fornia delegate objected to the Sec
ond clause of the platform, wherein
he alleged the cOmmittae declared