Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-10-18


abridgment of production and com.
merce. .'.. .t-..
We assert that from 1861 to 1897 in.
elusive, period OF "a years last past
the Democratic party and the Repubh-
can party have made and administered
the law OF this nation; that that period
has been characterized as of uninter-
rupted bountifnl harvests and bounti-
fuI production FROM all our great nat
ured resources and that our people
have made unparalleled advances in
Skill, III every branch of manufacture
and craftsmanship, that the period has
| been one of general health, and not
| whilst anding the cival war period
OF unparalleled prosperity from 1861
| down to 1873. In 1873 the Repubi.
| den party passed laws in restraint of
the coinage of money. denying min
| tage to Silver, the money we need in
the pocket of every citizen and till of
| every store. The decadence of silver
has been steady. gradual and unre-
lenilng as the grip of the gold stand
ard OF money has closed around our
| Industries and labor, and the price of
every production of labor, by forests,
| field, mine and manufacture; have
fallen parallel with the decadencc of
silver, which to day is worth less than
| 40 per cent of its standard coinage
value at the legal ratio of l6 to l.
Three millions of our people are
without the comforts and decencies of
life, every industry i'll our nation
Is restrained, pinched and dwarfed
| by the characterization OF silver, to
| the great injury of every Lorer,
producer and tradesman in the La
| ton.
The volume of money in circulation
| should be speedily inc, ased and al
ways be fully adequate for the re-
| qulrements of business. That all
money should be legal tender for
debts both public and private. That
no money should exist except such as
is issued directly by the National
Government and nothing should be
money except gold, silver and Govern.
mCnt paper.
We faI or the redemption of Govern
ment Londs and prohibition of any
fun ther issue thereof in the time of
peace.
We demand the abolition of Ma.
| tional hanks.
We demand the collection of the in.
| debtedness of the Pacific railwa.
companies to the United States as
it natures without any extension of
time or change of terms or condl-
| tions.
A public Office is a public trust.
No pers on or Earty should be trust
ed who has once violated that trust.
Every citizen should contribute to the
SUPPORT of the Government in prolor-
ton to his means and in accordance
with the necessity of good govern
ment, but no Government should
augment this burden or enlarge
| it's necessities by unnecessary
needless interest bearing debts max.
ing useless expenditures, or by failing
to promptly collect What is Justly due
it whether it be loan, a tax Of tar
if.
No grant should be made of public
property for any other than public
purpose, and it is the duty of the Gov
eminent to secure to the public the
enjoyment of the benefit which
was the consideration of the grant
or declare it forfeited.
we demand Government owner
ship of telegraph lines and Govern
ment subsidized railroads.
| LABOR.
We demand that no law shall ever
be enacted restraining or abridging
the development OF our natural re-
sources and we guarantee to the peo-
pie freedom of pursuit and the inal-
ienable right to enjoy the full value
of ali property that their labor pro-
duces. we hold 1t as one of the tru-
isms OF human existence and modern
progress and enterprise, that capital
and labor should go hand in hand in
tho general advancement, happiness
and good OF this great commonwealth
Therefore we claim that capital and
labor should stand OH an equal foot
ing before the law, and that the la.
borer' should Always receive fair
compensation for u far days WORK
That both capital and labor have the
legal and unquestionabIe right to or.
game for mutual protection and self
preservation.
We believe that a national and a
State BOard OF Labor Commissioners
should be created by law and made