Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-10-13

abridgment Of production and com
MERGE. .t H.
We assert that from 1861 to 1894 in
elusive, period of "a 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
nred res ources and that our people
have made unparalleled advances in
| Skill, III every branch of manufacture
and craftsmanship, that the period has
been one of general health, and not
willis; anding the cival war a period
OF unparalleled prosperity from 1861
| down to 1873. In 1878 the iRepubh.
| den party passed laws in restraint OF
the coinage OF money. deny ing 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-
len ing 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 decudence OF
silver, wh.ch to day is worth less than
50 per cent of ite 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 decentralization Of silver, to
the great injury of every laLorer,
producer and tradesman in the ma.
tIOL.
The volume of money in circulation
| should be speedily inc eased and al
ways be fully adequate for the re-
qulrements of business. That all
money should be legal tender for
debts both public and private. That
| no money should exist except such as
is Isl ued directly by the National
| Cover nment and nothing should be
money except gold, silver and Govern.
| ment paper.
We fay or the redemption of Govern
ment Londs and d 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 railway
companies to the United States as
it MIXTURES without any extension of
time or char ge of terms or condl-
tione.
| 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
supp ort of the Government in prof. Or
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. ''... - 90.
No grant should be made of public
property for any other than public
purpose, and it is the duty of the Gov
ernment 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
ship of telegraph lines and Govern
! ment subsidized railroads. .-4
| LABOR.
We demand that no law shall ever
be enacted restraining or abridging
the development of our natural re-
sources AMI 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
progre IS and enterprise, that capital
and labor should go hand in hand in
the general advancement, happiness
ana 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 la.
borer should Always receive fair
compensation for u fair days work
That both capital and labor have the
legal and unquestionable right to or,
game for mutual protection and self.
preservation.
We believe that national and @
State board Of Labor Commissioners
should be created by law and made