The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1894-12-08
Action the stLouis Convention

kACJ1Ou VI t10 81 AOuAS OOAvPAt4O1r
The platform OF the Transmississippi
Congress is thoroughly Western in its
scope and declarations, and when No
say thoroughly Western, We may ~
we'll add thoroughly American in tho
broadcast and most generous sense.
With the Western man lies the future
of this Nation. His ideas are broader,
truer, more comprehensive than those
of his Eastern brothers. They are not
| narrowed down to such littleness or
pinched in such cent per cent ruDes ~
those of the Eastern money sharks.
hose misery ideas seem to dominate
altogether in the connsels of the At
lantic States. The Western mind tax es
in the whole continent. The Eastern
mind is narrow and provincial, scarcely
able to comprehend that anything real
exists west OF the Allegheny mountains.
II is prone to imagine that all that is
said about the West is myth aud boom
II is impossible for he Eastern man to
realize that the dominion Is departing
from him, even all honyh that is already
almost accom- plished. But he clings 10
his traditions Of superiority, based =
on nothing; and to his faith that his
money bags can yet rule he Nation.
Intl,is broad and enlightened declar-
atoms Of principles by the Transniesis-
sipri Congress, We find every Amrriran
interest fully considered. The Nicara-
qua Canai is favored; railroad discrim
inaiion is denounced; the difficulties of
traie for he coast cities pointed out;
better trade relations with the West
Indies and South America urged; the
protection of Alaska's interrsta de-
the completion of the Henni-
pin Canal urged; appropriations for
deep water harbors on the Texas coast
asked; the same for San Pedro, CAL,
and the improvement of Oakland hsr-
Dor, the Sacramento and San Joaquin
rivers; the opening ofthe Utah Indian
the ceedng of the arid
ands to he respective States and Ter
-itories; the consideration by the farm
,rs of the tariff and monetary questions
Urged; the Mississippi river improve.
nent; the ad ission of New Mexico,
Arizona and Ok labama all favored; rec
ificaiion of troubles in Indian Terri
DRY demanded; st. Lawrence deep
water canal and also Hudson River
anal, Lake Superior and tho Missis-
ippi river connection. Lake Erie con-
lection with the Ohio, form q link Of
sater connections favored that are
oble il their conception; international
FILTRATION on all questions affecting !,
be United States and this continent 10
rged, and, in short all Of the great :
tactical questions affecting the dsvsl-
pment of the country are treated in
be most generous spirit, But the cul- :
linating beauty of the whole declsra- " "
on was that on the currency question, y
hich we reproduce as follows: -
Resolved, First, that In direct oppos- %
ion tothe plan known as the Baltimore ~ ~
Ian, the sense of this convention il
lat all issues Of paper money should -
3 by the General Government. =
Second, that it 10 the sense of this
invention that the pending PROPOSE
On for a reformation of our paper cur pA
ncy is one, that in our judgment 'o'
1uld create additional and perhapsin oo
difficulties in the way of oe
turn to bimetalism and that we are WI
posed 10 the same. an
Third, Resolved, that in any currency az
form acted upon VS. demand the re-
of silver or that il shall
OF such character as to be no i'm '"'
Gimeut TO our return TO bimetalism A"'
it existed prior to 1873. "n'
Whereas, An appreciating money
ndsrd inipairs all contracts, bank /
us enterprises, makes money profit DIRE
e by increasing its purchasing power Ga