The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1894-07-07
FREE SILVER!
SILVER TO OCCUPY THE PLACE
IN THE MONEY WORLD IT DID
PRIOR TO 1873

The convention of Republican Lea
CUES of the United States, which met
at Denver on June Goth is one of the
strongest indications of the radical
change of sentiment in favor of silver
and one of the most pronounced de-
claration against monometalism and
gold bug rule the country has wit
messed in many years The conven-
ton speaks the downfall of Wall street
domination and denotes decided
change in favor of the establishment of
popular rights. It speaks the over
throw of the principles which have
enriched the few at the expense of
the many. 1t protests against the
continuance of a system of legalized
robbery which is fast reducing the
masses to condition of absolute serf-
dom and eentralizing the wealth and
power of the nation into the hands of
the money power. It condemns the
weak and narrow policy, and deplores
the lack of governmental ability in the
present administration. The resolu-
tions adopted by the convention are
substantially the same as those in
corporated in the Utah and Califor-
mia platforms. The resolution concern
ing silver is one of the strongest ever
put before the people by national
convention. The resolution calls for
the use of gold and silver money met
ais maintained on a perfect parity
and interchangeable, and declares
that there WILL BE NO PERMANENT RE-
TURN OF PROSPERITY TO OUR COUNTRY
UNTIL THE FULL USE AND HIGH
EST POSITION OF SILVER SHALL BE
RESTORED, and demands SUCH LEGIs-
LATIoN AS WILL BRING ABOUT THIS RE-
suit.
The following is summary of
letter written by Senator Don. Came
ron of Pennsylvania, to the conven-
ton and is highly suggestive of the
feeling existing throughout the Uni
ted States regarding the effect of the
demonstration of silver on the bust
ness of the world, and the urgent
necessity of its speedy remonetiza-
ton:
Cameron, in his letter, said: "This
is not moment for stimulating bit
terness or infaming passions. We
need all of our powers of forbearance
and self control. Let US give credit
to our opponents at least for good in
tentions, even though they give no
credit to us. All Europe and all Amer
lea are in trouble. Every one admits
that the world stands on the edge of
revolution, social and political; but
every one shrinks from it.
s'To those of us who have had chiefly
in mind the struggle between silver
and gold, this is the question which,
for the moment, presses hardest. The
single gold standard seems to us to be
working ruin and violence that moth
ing can withstand. If it's influence is
to continue for the future at the rate of
its action during the twenty years
since the gold standard took possession
of the world, some generation, not
very remote, will see in the broad
continent of America only half doz-
en- overgrown cities, keeping guard
over mass of capital, and lending it
out to population of dependent la
borers on the mortgage of their grow
ing crops and handiwork. Such sights
have been common enough in the
worlds history, but against it We all
rebel.
The most instructive point of all is
that the great majority consists of the
interests that form time immemorial
have been reckoned as the safest and
most conservative. The whole agri-
cultural class, the whole class or class
ss of small proprietors, the artisan
whose interests are bound up in the
success of our manufacturers, all these