The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-18
PLATFORM.

The Silver Party of Nevada, in Convent on
assembled, at Carson City, on the 4th day of Sep
TENDER, 1894, declare that platforms 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 and individual
happiness for which this Government was estab
lished.
We deny the right or authority of the Govern
ment of the United States to pass any law restrict
ing abrdging the privilege of any citizen to the
free coinage of silver into standard money at the
legal ratio of l6 to independent of any other
ton, and we demand the repeal of all laws deny
ing or abridging that right.
We assert that any law denying or abridglng the
right of free coinage of silver into standard money
at the legal ratio of 16 to ! independent of any
other nation. is denial of the sovereignty Of the
people Of the United States as nation and
Independent 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 admins
tered the law of this nation; that that period has
been characterized as of uninterrupted bountiful
harvests and bountiful production from all
great natural resources and that our people have
made unparalleled advances in skill, in every
branch of manufacture and srtizanship, that the
period has been one of general health, and not
wthstanding the civil war, period Of unparallel-
ed prosperity from 1861 down to 1873. In 1873 the
coinsge 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 unrelentng 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
manufacture, have fallen parallel with the deca-
dence Of silver which to-day is worth less than so
per cent of its standard coinage value at the legal
ratio of 16 to /.
Three millions of our people are without the
fnrtu and niaap 70 indn afr in
our nation is restrained pinched aud dwarfed by
the decentralization of silver to the great injury of
every laborer, producer and tradesmsn in the
nation.
The volume of money in circulation should be
speedily increased and always be fully adequate
for the requirements 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 Government paper.
! We favor the redemption of Government bonds
and prohibition of and further issue thereof in
| the time Of peace.
We demand the abolition of National banks.
We demand the collection OF the Indebtedness
| of the Pacific railway companies of the United
STATES as 1t natures without any extension of time
or change of terms or conditions
A public office is n public trust. No person or
| party should be trusted who has once violated
that trust. Every citizen should contribute to the
| support Of the Government in proportion to his
and In accordance with the necessity OF good
| Government, but no Government should augment
this burden enlarge its necessities by unnecess-
ary needless interest bearing debts making useless
expenditures, or by failing to promptly collect
what is Justly due it, whether 1t be loan. tax or
q tariff.
No grant should be made Of public property for
any other than public purpose, and 1t is the
| duty of the Government to secure to the public
the enjoyment Of the benefit which was the con-
sideration Of the grant or declare 1t forfeited.
| We demand Government ownership Of telegraph
| lines and Government subsidized railroads.
| LABOR.
| We demand that no law shall ever be enacted re.
| straining or abridging the development Of our
natural resources and we guarantee to the people
freedom of pursuit and the inalienable right to
enjoy the full value Of all the property that theiI
| labor produces. We hold 1t al one of the truisms
or human existence and modern progress and en-
terprise that capital and labor should go hand in
hand In the general advancement. happiness and
good of this great commonwealth. Therefore We
claim that capital and labor should stand on ar
equal footing before the law and that the laborei