The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-09-27
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 equiyocalion evasion We hold that
history has demonstrated that these principles
right and equitable, and their observance
necessary to secure the welfare and individual
happiness for which this Government was estab-
lished,
SILVER
We deny the right or authority the Govern
ment of the United States to pass any law restrict
ing abridgng 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 ma
tion and We demand the repeal of all laws deny
ing or abridging that right.
We assert that any law denying or abridging the
right of free coinage of silver into standard money
at the legal ratio of l6 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, q
period of 81 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 our
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 1851 down to 1878. In 1878 the
Republican party passed laws in restraint OF 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 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
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 l6 to !.
Three millions Of people are without the
comforts and decencies of life. every industry in
our nation Is restrained, pinched and dwarfed by
the characterization Of silver to the great 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 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
public office is 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
| Government, but no Government should augment
this burden or enlarge its necessities by
ary needless interest bearing debts making useless
expenditures. or by failing to promptly collect
what is Justly due 1t, whether 1t be loan, tax or
o 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 It 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 GU,
natural resources and We guarantee to the peopl,
freedom OF pursuit and the nalienable right Il
enjoy the full value of all the property that the
labor produces. We hold 1t as one Of the truism
or human existence and modern progress and en-
terprse that capital and labor should go hand II
hand In the general advancement. happiness an,
good Of this great commonwealth. Therefore W
claim that capital and labor should stand on o.
equal footing before the law and that the lahore