Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1894-09-15
PLATFORM AND RESOLUTIONS.

1el- Committee on Platform and
Resolutions would respectfully report ~
follows:
The Silver Party Of Nevada, In Conven.
ton assembled, at Carson City, on the 4th
day OF September, 1894, declare that plat
forms should assert cardinal principles OF
political faith concerning questions Of
political interest and present moment
without eq~uivocation or evasion. We hold
that history has demonstrated that these
principles are right and equitable, and
their observance necessary to secure the
welfare and individual happiness for which
this Government was established.
SILVER.
We deny the right or authority Of the
Government Of the United States TO pass
any law restricting or abridging the privi-
lege Of any citizen TO the free coinage Of
silver into standard money OF the legal
ratio of 16 to / independent Of any other
nation, and We demand the repeal Of all
laws denying or abridging that right.
We assert that any law denying or
abridging the right Of free coinage Of gold
and silver into standard money at the legal
ratio Of 16 TO l independent Of any other
nation, is q denial Of the sovereignty Of
the people OF the United States Is Q nation
and Independent State, snda law 10 re-
straint and abridgment OF production and
commerce..
We assert that from 1861 to 1894 inclu-
sive, period OF "a years Last past, the Demo-
cratic party and Republican party have
made and administered the Law Of this ma
ton; that that period has been Character
lied o. OF unin terrupted ,bountiful hsr-
vests and bountiful production from all
our great natural resources and that our
people have made unparalleled advances
In skill, In every branch Of manufacture
and s~rtizsnship, that the period has been
one OF general health, and Notwithstanding
the civil war, o period OF unparalleled
prosperity from 1861 down 10 1878. In
1873 the Republican party passed laws in
restraint Of the coinage Of money, denying
mintage 70 silver. the money we need In
the pocket Of every citizen and till Of
every store. The deeadence OF silver has
been steady, gradual and unrelenting a.
the grip OF the gold standard Of money
has closed around our industries and
labor. and the price Of every production Of
labor. by forest, field, mine and maniac.
ture. have fallen parallel with the de-
| cadency Of silver, which to-day Ia worth
| less than so per cent OF Its standard coin
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Three millions Of our people are without
| the comforts and deeehcies OF life, every
| industry In our nation 10 restrained.
| pinched and dwsrfed by the demonetizs-
/ ton Of silver to the great injury Of every
laborer. producer and tradesmsn In the
nation.
The volume OF money Id circulation
| should be speedily increased and always be
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| business. That ell money should be q
| legal tender for debts both public and pri-
| vste. That no money should exist except
such % is issued directly by the National
| Government, and nothing should be money
except gold, silver and Government paper.
We favor the redemption Of Government
bonds and . prohibition Of any further L.
sue thereof In time OF peace.
We demand the abolition OF National
banks.
We demand the collection OF the indsbt-
| edness OF the Pacific railway companies IA
the United States % it natures without
any extension Of time or change OF terms
or conditions.
A public Office is Q public trust. No per.
son or party should be trusted who has
once violated that trust. Every citizen
should contribute 10 the support Of the
Government in proportion to his meant
and In accordance with the necessity oil
good government. but NO Government
should augment this burden or enlarge
its necessities by unnecessary, needless In
tersst bearing debts making useless ex
pe~nditGres. or by failing TO promptly col
isct what is justly due il, whether 10 be
loan, q tax or tariff.
No grant should be made OF public prop
erty for any other than q public purpose
and 10 is the duty Of the Government 3.
secure 10 the public the enjoyment Of III
benefit which was the consideration OF Vi
grant OF declare 10 forfeited.
! We demand Government ownership o