Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1894-10-27
PLATFORM AND RESOLUTIONS.

Your Committee on Platform and
Resolutions would respectfully repors as
follows:
The Silver Party Of Nevada. in Convon.
ton assembled, at Carson City, on the 4th
day OF September. 1891, declare thst plat
forms 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 aud individual happiness for which
this Government Was established.
SILVER,
We deny the right or authority OF the
Government Of the United States 10 pass
any law restricting or abridging the priyi-
lege of any citizen to the free coinage OF
silver into standard money at the legal
ratio of is to l independent Of any other
nation, and we demand the repeal OF all
laws denying or a~bridgipg that right.
We assert hat any law denying or
abridgsng the right OF free coinage OF gold
and silver into standard money Al the legal
ratio OF 16 10 l independents Of any other
nation, ID a denial OF the sovereignty Of
she people Of the United States IS . nation
and independent State, snda law in re-
straint and abridgment OF production and
commerce.
We assert that from 1861 to 1894 inclu.
siye. speriod Of "a years lac. past, the Demo
cratic party and Republican party have
made and administered the Law OF this ma.
lion; that ths. period has been character
ICED as OF uninterrupted bountiful har-
vests and bountiful production from all
our great natural resources aud that our
people have made unparalleled advances
in skill, 10 every branch Of manufacture
aud a~rtizanship, that the period has been
one OF general health, and notwithstanding
the civil war, Q period OF unparalleled
prosperity from 1861 down TO 1878. In
1878 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 decadtnce OF silver has
been steady, gradual and unrelenting As
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 mauiac.
ture. have fallen parallel with the de-
csdeney OF silver, which to day Is worth
less than 80 per cent of its standard coin
age value at The legal ratio OF 16 to /.
Three millions OF our people are without
the comforts and deecncies OF life. every
industry in u nation 10 restrained,
pinehed and dwarfed by the d~emonelizs-
ton Of silver 10 the great i Injury OF every
laborer. producer and tradesman 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 q
legal tender for debts both public and pri-
yate. That no money should exist except
snoh 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 a prohibition Of any further is
sue thereof in time OF peace.
We demand the abolition OF National
bAnks.
We demand The collection OF the indebt-
edness Of the Pacific railway companies TO
the United States as it natures without
any extension CT time or change OF terms
or conditions.
A public office IL public trust. No per-
son or party should he trusted who has
once violated that trust. Every citizen
should contribute 10 the support Of the
Government 10 proportion to his means
and In accordance with the necessity Of
good government. bat no Government
should augment ihis burden or enlarge
lie necessities by unnecessary. needless in
ierest bearing debts making useless ex
OF failing TO promptly col
lect what is justly due II, whether IL be oil
loo n, a tax or tariff.
No grant should be made OF public prop
erty for any other Than q public purpose.
and /, is the duty Of the Government to
secure TO the public the enjoyment OF the
benefit which was the consideration OF the
grant or declare ID forfeited.
We demand Government ownership OF