Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-10-27

ed States as a nation and independent
State, and a law in restraint and
abridgment of production and com.
MERGE.
We assert that from 1861 to 1894 in
elusive, period of 81 years last past
the Democratic party and the Republi-
can party have made and administered
the law of this nation; that that period
has been characterized as of uninter-
rupted bountiful harvests and bounti-
fuI production from all our great nat
ured resources and that our people
have made unparalleled advances in
skill, in every branch of manufacture
and craftsmanship, that the period has
been one of general health, and not
Whilst anding the cival war a period
of unparalleled prosperity from 1861
down to 1873. In 1873 the Republic
den party passed laws in restraint Of
the coinage of money. denying min
tage 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 unre-
lenting as the grip of the gold stand
ard of money has closed around our
industries and labor, and the price of
every production of labor, by forests,
field, mine and manufacture; have
fallen parallel with the decadence of
silver, which to day is worth less than
5O per cent of its standard coinage
value at the legal ratio of 16 to l.
Three millions Of our people are
without the comforts and decencies of
life. every industry in our nation
Is restrained, pinched and dwarfed
by the demonstration of silver, to
the great injury of every laborer,
producer and tradesman in the ma
ton.
The volume of money in circulation
should be speedily Increased and al
ways be fully adequate for the re-
quirements of business. That all
money should be a 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 Govern.
ment paper.
We favor the redemption of Govern
ment bonds and prohibition of any
further issue thereof in the time of
peace.
We demand the abolition of Ma
tional banks.
We demand the collection of the in
| debtedness of the Pacific railWa,
| companies to the United States as
it natures without any extension of
| time or change of terms or condi-
tions.
A public Office is a public trust.
No person or party should be trust
| ed who has once violated that trust.
| Every citizen should contribute to the
support of the Government in proper
ton to his means and in accordance
with the necessity of good govern
ment, but no Government should
augment this burden or enlarge
| its necessities by unnecessary
needless interest bearing debts MAX
ing useless expenditures, or by failing
to promptly collect what is Justly due
it whether it be loan, a tax of tar
iff.
| No grant should be made of public
property for any other than a public
purpose, and it is the duty of the Gov
eminent to secure to the public the
enjoyment of the benefit which
was the consideration of the grant
or declare it forfeited.
We demand Government owner
| snip OI GeleSrdpn lines ana Govern
ment subsidized railroads.
| LABOR.
We demand that no law shall ever
be enacted restraining or abridging
the development of our natural re-
sources and we guarantee to the peo-
pie freedom Of pursuit and the inal-
lenable right to enjoy the full value
of all property that their labor pro-
duces. We hold it as one of the tru-
isms Of human existence and modern
progress and enterprise, that capital
and 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 foot.
ing before the law, and that the Ia
borer should always receive a fair
compensation for a fair days work
That both capital and labor have the
legal and unquestionable right to or
ganize for mutual protection and self
preservation
| We believe that national and 8