Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1894-11-17
PLATFORM AND RESOLUTIONS.

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Your Committee on Platform and
Resolutions would respectfully report as
follows:
The Silver Party Of Nevada. In Conven
ton assembled, 81 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 equivocation or evasion. We hold
that history has demonstrated that these
principles are right and equitable, and
their Observance necessary to secure the
welfare ana Individual happiness for which
this Government was estab i11ed.
SILVER.
We deny the right or authority OF the
Government Of the United States 70 pass
any law restricting or sbridgipg the priyi-
lege Of any citizen TO the free coinage Of
silver into standard money 81 b legal
ratio Of 10 10 l independent Of any other
nation, and we demand the repeal OF all
laws denying or abridsipg that right.
We assert that any law denying or
~abrldging the right OF free coinage OF gold
and silver into standard money 81 the legal
ratio OF l6 10 1 independent Of any other
nation, 10 . denial Of the sovereignty OF
the people Of the United States q . nation
and i~ndepsndsnt State, and law 10 re-
straint and ~abrldgmsnt OF production and
We sssers that from 1851 to 1894 inslu.
sive, . period OF "a years last past, the Demo
cratic party and Republican party hsve
made and administered the Law OF this na'
tion; that that period has been character
issd - Of uninterrupted bountiful hsr-
vests and bountiful production from all
our great natural and that our
people have made unparalleled advances
In skill. 10 every branch Of manufacture
and a~rtizsnship. that the period has been
one Of general health. and Notwithstanding
the civil war, . period OF unparalleled
prosperity from 1851 down 10 1878. 10
1878 the Republican party passed laws In
restraint Of the coinage OF money, denying
mintage to silver, the money We need 10
the pocket OF every citizen and till OF
every store. The decadsnce Of silver has
been steady, gradual and unrelenting as
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 msufac-
turs. have fallen parallel with the de-
cadeney Of silver. which to-day 10 worth
less than 80 per cent Of Its standard coin.
6 value 81 the legal ratio Of 10 TO l..
Three millions Of our people are without
the comforts aud decencles OF life. every
industry In our nation 10 restrained,
pinched and dwarfed by the dsmons,iza-
ton Of silver TO the great injury Of every
lsborer, producer and trsdesman In the
nation.
The volume OF money In circulation
should be speedily increased and always be
fully adequate for the requirements OF
business. That ell money should be .
legal tender for debts both public and pri-
vate. That no money should exist except
such ss 10 issued directly by the National
Government, and nothing should be money
except gold, silver and Government paper.
We favor ths redemption Of Government
bonds and Q Il prohibition Of any further To-
sue thereof In time Of peace.
We demand the abolition OF National
banks.
We demand the collection OF the indebt
edness OF the Pacific railway companies 10
the United States 10 1t natures without
any extension Of time or change Of terms
or conditions.
A public office 10 q public trust. No per-
or party should be trusted who has
once violated that trust. Every citizen
should contribute TO the support OF the
In proportion TO his means
and In accordance with the necessity OF
good government. but NO Government
should augment this burden or enlarge
its necessities by unnecessary. needless In
tersst bearing debts making useless ex-
penditures. OF by failing TO promptly col
isct what Ia Justly due IL, whether II be .
loan, Q tax or tariff.
No grant should be made Of public prop
erty for any other than . public purpose,
and 10 10 the duty Of the Government TO
secure to the public the enjoyment Of the
benefit which was the consideration OF the
grant or declare II forfeited.
We demand Government ownership Of