Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-09-05
Resolutions made its report.
RESOLUTIONS.

Il The Silver Party Of Nevada, IL
Convention assembled, at Carson
City, on the 4th day of Sept. 1894,
declare that platforms should assert
cardinal principles of political faith
concerning questions of public inter
est and present moment without
equivocation or evasion. We hold
that history has demonstrated that
these principles are right and equit-
able, 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 abridg-
ing the privilege of any citizen to the
free coinage of gold and silver INFO
standard money at the legal ratio of
i 16 to Independent of any other ma
ton, 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 1 indepen-
dent of any other nation, is denial
of the sovereignty of the people of the
United States as nation and indie
pendent State, and law in restraint
and abridgment of production and
commerce.
We assert that from 1861 to 1894
inclusive, a period of "a years last
past, the Democratic party and the
Republican party have made and adj
ministered the laws of this nation;
that that period has been character
lied as of uninterrupted bountiful har-
vests and bountiful production from
all our great natural resources and
that Our people have made unparal-
leled advances in skill, in every
branch Of manufacture and artizan-
ship, that the period has been one of
general health, and notwithstanding
the civil war,a period of unparalleled
prosperity from 1861 down to 1873.
In 1873 the Republican party passed
laws in restraint of the coinage of
money, denying mintage 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 unrelenting as the grip
of the gold standard of money has
closed around our industries and la
Dor, and the price of every produc-
ton of labor, by forest, field, mine
and manufacture, have fallen paral-
lei with the decadepce of silver,
which today is worth less than 80 per
cent of its standard coinage value at
the legal ratio of 16 to 1.
Three millions of our people are
without the comforts and decencies
of life, every industry in our nation
is restrained, pinched and dwarfed
by the denomination of silver to
the great injury of every laborsr,
producer and tradesman in the ma
ton.
The volume of money in circnla-
ton should be speedily increased
and always be fully adequate for the
requirements of business. That all
money should he 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 gov
eminent paper.
We favor the redemption of gov
eminent bonds and prohibition of
any further issue thereof in time of
peace.
We demand the abolition of ma
tional banks.
We demand the collection of the
indebtedness of the Pacific Railway
Companies to the United States ssit
natures without any extension of
time or change of teams OF condi tons.
A public Office is public trust,
No person OK party should be trust d
who has once violated that trust.
Every citizen should contribute to
the support of the government in
to his means and in ac-
cordance with the necessities of good
but no government
should sugment this burden or en-
large its necessities by unnecessary,
needless interest bearing debts max
ing useless expenditures, or by fail
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