The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-11
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 equivocation or evasion. We hold that
history has demonstrated that these principle
are 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 of the Govern
ment of the United States to pass any law restrict
ing abridging 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
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 l 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 product IN and commerce.
We assert that from 1861 to 1894 Inclusive, a
period of "a years last past, the Democratic party
and the Republican party have made and admins
tered the law Of this nstion 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 ar izanshir, that tho
period has been one of general health, and not
withstanding the civil war, period OF unparallel-
ed prosperity from 1861 down to 1878. In 1873 the
Republican party passed laws in restraint OF the
ceinsge 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 mino and
manufacture have fallen parallel with the deca-
dence Of silver, which to-day is worth less than 50
per cent of its standard coinage value at tho legal
ratio of 16 to l.
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comforts and decencies of life, every industry in
our nation Is restrained pinched aud dwarfed by
the decentralization 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 rs 1t natures without any extension of time
| or change of terms or conditions.
| A public office is public trust. No person OF
party should be trusted who has once violated
that trust. Every citizen should contribute to the
support OF the Government in proportion to his
means and in accordance with the necessity Of good
Government, but no Government sh ,uld augmen,
this burden or enlarge its necessities by unnecess
ary needless interest bearing debts making useless
expenditures. or by failing to promptly collec,
what is justly due IL, whether 1t be loan. tax oil
| tariff.
No grant should be made of public property fol
any other than public purpose. and 1t is tn,
duty of the Government to secure to the public
the enjoyment of the benefit which was the con
| sideration Of the grant or declare 1t 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 ou
| natural resources and we guarantee to the peopl
freedom OF pursuit and the inalienable right Il
enjoy the full value of all the property that thei
| labor produces. We hold 1t as one of the truism
or human existence and modern progress and en-
terprise 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 OIL
equal footing before the law and that the lahore