The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1894-10-04
PLATFORM.

The Silver Party of Nevada, in Convent on
assembled. at Carson City, toe 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 equivocaion or evasion. We hold that
history has demonstrated that these prime pleB
right and equitable, AMI their observance
necessary to secure tho welfare and individual
happiness for which this Government was cstab.
lishe1.
SILVER.
We deny the right or authority of the Govern
ment of the United States to pass any law restrict
ing abrdging 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 abrldging that right.
We assert that any law denying OF abridgng the
right of free coinage of silver into standard money
at the legal ratio of lG to Independent of any
other nation, is denial of the sovereignty OF the
people of the United states nation and
Independent State, and law in restraint and
abridgment of PRODUCT IN and commerce.
We assert that from 1861 to 1894 Inclusive,
period of "a 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
great natural resources and that our people have
made unparalleled advances in Skill in every
branch of manufacture aud ar izanship, that the
period has been one of general health, and not
wthstanding the civil war, period of unparalle-
ed prosperity from 1861 down 10 1873. In 1873 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 docadence of silver has
been steady, gradual and unrelentng 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 min4 and
manufacture have fallen parallel with the deca.
dence of silver which to-day is worth less than so
per cent of it's standard coinage value at the legal
ratio of 16 to l.
comforts and decencies of life, every industry in
our nation is restrained pinched and dwarfed By
the decentralization of silver to the great injury of
every laborer producer and tIadesman 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 money should exist except such
| az Is issued directly by the National Government,
and nothing should be money except gold, siive.
! 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 collection Of ths Indebtedness
of the Pacific railway companies OF the United
States as it natures without aoy extension of time
| or change of terms or conditions
public office is public trus'. 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 augment
this burden enlarge its necessities by unnecess
ary needless interest bearing debts making useless
| expenditures. by failing to promptly collect
what is justly due it, whether 1t be loan tax or
| o tariff.
No grant should be uIsde of public property for
| any other than public purpose. and 1t is tho
duty of the Government to secure to the public
tho 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 our
natural resources and guarantee to the people
freedom OF pursuit and the inalienable right to
enjoy the full value of all the property that their
labor produces. We hold 1T as one of the truisms
| or human existence and modern progress and en-
terprise that capital aud labor should go hand in
hand in the general Advancement happiness and
| good of this great commonwealth Therefore we
claim that capital and labor should stand on an
equal footing before the law and that the laborei