Weekly independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1887-1914, 1894-05-27

Legislation as in th> -.
ity of our government, --.oused the
independentspirit OF our citizens into
active cooperation, regardless OF
formar party ties, in the determine
ton that the electoral vote OF our
proud state shall never again be cast
for candidates for president and vice
president unless they shall be I'M
q~ualifedly in favor of free coinage,
and shall stand upon a free coinage
platform. Over one million OF our
fellow c%ountrymen united with us
upon this great issue, carried six
states and elected twenty-five presi-
Dental electors. whose votes were
cast for General Weaver and Field
the nominees of the Peoples party
the only national party in the United
States in favor of the free coinage OF
gold and silver Mt the ratio of sixteen
to ono; a party composed OF earnest
honest and patriotic citizens, whose
members in congress are always Mt
their posts fighting for the silver cause,
rs well rs for long needed reform.
The base servility Of the old parties,
led by Grover Cleveland and John
Sherman, to the gold trust ofEurope
and America, so ~shamefully illus.
trated in the last twelve months i'll
the executive and Legislative depart.
ments at Washington, has demon.
strated the wisdom of uniting the
silver sentiment OF the country i'll an
independent party organization be-
foro we a reasonably hope for
monetary relief. Silver which has
been accepted rs a money since the
dawn OF history, was demonetized in
this country by the twin Wall street
parties, at the command Of a pluto
cratic oligarchy and the OF
wealth, to add to the purchasing
power Of gold by decreasing the
value of all forms of property, rs well
as OF human labor, and the supply of
currency has been purposcly con
tracted to fatten usurers, stop pro-.
duction, bankrupt enterprise and en-
nlave industry.
A vast finance conspiracy against
mankind has been organized on two
continents and is rapidly taking pos
session of the world. III not met and
overthrown at II C. it forbodes terri
BILE social commissions, the destruction
OF civilization, the sapping of the pill.
lnrs of free institutions and the estab-
lishment of absolute, relentless and
universal despotism.
Within the last twelve months, rs Il
step towards the contamination of
this gigantic scheme, and in order to
accomplish the repeal of the silver
purchasing law and the issuing OF
millions more of government interest
bearing bonds, a money panic was
precipitated upon this country by the
cormorant greed OF gold syndicateg
and national banks in the great money
centers OF such magnitude and with
such criminal results, rs has never
before been known in the history of
our country. 1t has stricken all Of
our industries with paralysis and re-
duced millions OF industrious hands
to enforced idleness and brought
cold and hunger and squalid want TO
the household OF our industrial class.
es.
The distressed cry for bread by the
tramping legions is borne upon the
winds from every section of our once
prosperous and happy land to the ears
OF the sympnthizing unlocking mil.
lions.
This condition is the virus Of mono.
metallism and currency contraction
working itself out in a continental
eruption. Tho purposes Of the nation
nj constitution to form u more perfect
union and establish Justice, insure
domestic tranquility. provide for the
common defense, promote the general
welfare and secure the blessings OF
liberty to ourselves and our posterity
have been lost sight Of by our nation
al public servants in the old parties
in the scramble to do the bidding of
tho heartlees and oxacting money
power which is now controlling the
destiny OF our republic. We have
witnessed for moro thnn u quarter OF
a century the struggles OF the two
great political parties for power and
plumber while griveous wrongs have
been inflicted upon a suffering people.
And for tho last twenty years they
have been playing the tariff game
with tho protection battledoor and
FREQ trade shuttlecock to divert the
public attention from the anaconda
coils Of decentralization which are
squeezing out the lifo OF nll the in.
dustries OF the people. Radical,
sweeping reforms in the Legislation
and the business methodu OF our gov.
eminent are required by every con.
alteration OF patriotism and personal
liberty.
Money reform is absolutely essen.
tial to the continuance of our free in.
gtitutions. II Ia the paramount and
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