Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1894-11-03
PLATFORM AND RESOLUTIONS.

fLAAEOAA AA0 REoOLGAAORos
Your Committee on Platform and
Resolutions would respectfully report as
follows:
The Silver Party OF Nevada. In Conven.
ton assembled. st Carson City. oil the 4th
day Of September, 1894, declare that plat.
forms should assert csfdinal principles oil
political faith coneei Ing questions oil
political interest and present momeni
without equivocAtion or evasion. We hold
that history has demonstrated that thess
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 10 pass
any law restricting or Abridging the pfivi.
lege Of any citizen to the free coinage oil
silver into standard money 81 the legal
ratio Of 10 10 l independent OF any other
nation, and we demand the repeal OF all
laws denying or abridgipg tha. right.
We assert that any law denying or
sbridging the right Of free coinage Of gold
and silver into standard money 81 the legal
ratio OF 16 10 / independent OF any other
nation, 10 . denial Of the sovereignty OF
the people OF the United States % . nation
and Independent State, Anda law In re-
straint and abridgment Of production and
commerce.
We assert that from 1851 10 1894 inolu.
sive. speriod Of 81 years last past. the Demo.
cratic party and Republican party have
made and administered the Law OF this %.
ton; that that period has been character
ICED - Of uninterrupted bountiful hAr.
vests and bountiful production from all
our great natural resources and that our
people have made unparalleled advances
in skill, 10 every branch Of manufacture
and artizsnship. that the period has been
one OF general health, and Notwithstanding
the civil war, . period OF unparalleled
prosperity from 1861 down 10 1878. In
1873 the Republican party passed laws In
restraint OF the coinage OF money, denying
mintage to silver. the money wa need In
the pocket OF every citizen and till OF
every store. The decadsnce Of silver has
been steady, gradual and uprelenting az
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 maufac.
ture. have fallen PARALLEL with the de-
cadency OF silver. which to-day 10 worth
less than so per cent Of its standard coin.
age value ~ the legal ratio OF 10 to 1.
Three millions Of our people are without
the comforts and decencies OF life, every
industry In aur nation 10 restrained.
pinched and dwarfed by the demoneiiza-
ton Of silver to the great injury OF every
laborer. producer and brakeman 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 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 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 to
the United States a. it natures without
any extension Of time or change OF terms
or conditions.
A public Office IL g public trust. No per-
son or party should be trusted who has
once violated that trusts Every citizen
should contribute 10 the support OF the
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 ex-
or by failing to promptly col.
lect what IL justly due il, whether 10 be .
loan. . tax or tariff.
No grant should be made OF public prop
erty for any other than . public purpose,
and ID IL the duty OF the Government to
secure to the public the enjoyment Of the
benefit which was the consideration OF the
grant or declare IL forfeited.
We demand Government ownership Of