Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1894-10-06
PLATFORM AND RESOLUTIONS.

Your Committee on Platform and
Resolutions would respectfully report Is
follows:
The Silver Party OF Nevada, In Conven.
ton assembled, al Carson City, on the 4th
day OF September, 1894, declare that plat
forms 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
principles are right and equitable, and
their observance necessary to secure the
welfare and individual happiness for which
this Government was established.
SILVER.
We deny the right or authority Of the
Government Of the United States to pass
any law restricting or abridging the priv.
lege OF any citizen to the free coinage OF
silver into standard money Of the legal
ratio Of 16 TO / independent Of any other
nation, and we demand the repeal Of all
laws denying or abridging that right.
We assert that any law denying or
sbridging the right Of free coinage OF gold
and silver into standard money at the legal
ratio OF 16 to l Independent Of any other
nation, 10 Q denial OF the sovereignty OF
the people OF the United States as Q nation
and Independent State, anda law 10 re-
straint and a~bridgment OF production and
commerce.
We assert that from 1861 to 1894 inclu.
sive. Aperiod OF "a years last past, the Demo-
cratic party and Republican party have
made and administered the law OF this ma.
ton; that that period has been character.
lied as Of uninterrupted bountiful hsr.
vests and bountiful production from all
our great natural resources and that our
people have made unparalleled advances
IN skin, in every branch Of manufacture
and a~rtizAnship, that the period has been
one Of general health, and Notwithstanding
the civil war, Q period Of unparalleled
prosperity from 1861 down to 1878. In
1878 the Republican party passed laws in
restraint OF the coinage OF money, denying
mintage to silver. the money we need 10
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 msufac.
ture, have fallen parallel with the de-
cadenoy OF silver, which to-day is worth
itru tnon w kuA Npnt VI VI oVtu'
age value al the legal ratio OF 16 TO 1.
Three millions OF our people are without
the comforts and deceneies OF life, every
industry In our nation is restrained,
pinched and dwarfed by the demonetiza-
ton Of silver TO the great injury OF every
laborer, producer and trsdesman 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 pri-
vate. That no money should exist except
such as 10 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 a prohibition Of any further is-
sue thereof In time OF peace.
We demand the abolition OF National
banks.
We demand the collection OF the indebt.
edness OF the Pacific railway companies 70
the United States as it natures without
any extension Of time or change Of terms
or conditions.
A public office is q public trust. No per-
son 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 means
and in accordance with the necessity OF
good government. but NO Government
should augment this burden or enlarge
its necessities by unnecessary. needless IN
terest bearing debts making useless OK.
penditures. or by failing TO promptly col.
lsct what is Justly due ii, whether 10 be Q
loan, a tax or tariff.
No grant should be made OF public prop
erty for any other Than q public purpose,
and ID ia The duty OF the Government to
TO the public the enjoyment Of the
benefit which was the consideration oil the
grant or declare ID forfeited.
We demand Government ownership Of