Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1894-11-10
PLATFORM AND RESOLUTIONS.


Your Committee on Platform and
Resolutions would respectfully report ss
follows:
The Silver Party Of Nevada. In Conven.
ton assembled, at Carson City, on the 4th
day OF September, 1894, declare that plat
for ms should assert cardinal principles OF
political faith concein ng 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 hsppiness 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 abrjdging the privi-
lege Of any citizen to the free coinage OF
silver into standard money at the legal
ratio Of 16 10 / independent OF any other
nation. and We demand the repeal Of all
laws denying or abridsing that right.
We assert that any law denying or
abridging the right OF free coinage OF gold
and silver into standard money 81 the legal
ratio OF 10 TO / independent Of any other
nation. 10 . denial OF the sovereignty Of
the people Of the United States as . nation
and Independent State, and Law 10 re-
straint aud abridgment OF production and
commerce.
We assert that from 1861 to 1894 inclu.
sive, speriod OF 81 years last past, the Demo.
cratic party and Republican party. have
made and administered the Law Of this ma.
ton; that thai period has been character
lied A. Of uninterrupted bountiful har-
vests and bountiful production from all
our great natural resources and that our
people have made unparalleled advances
in skill, In every branch OF manufacture
and srtizsnship. that the period has been
one OF general health. and notwithstanding
the civil war, Q period OF unparalleled
prosperity from 1861 down to 1878. 10
1878 the Republican party passed laws 10
restraint OF the coinsge Of money, denying
mintage to silver. the money We need In
the pocket Of every citizen and till OF
every store. The decadsnce 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 maufac-
ture. have fallen PARALLEL with the de-
csdency Of silver, which to-day 10 worth
lees than so per cent Of its standard coin
age value at the legal ratio Of 16 20 I.
Three millions OF our people are without
the comforts aud deeencies OF life. every
industry In our nation 10 restrained,
pinched and dwarfed by the demoneiiza-
ton OF silver to the great injury Of every |
laborer. producer and tradesman In the
nation.
The volume OF money in circulation
should be speedily increased and always be
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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 9 prohibition OF any further IT,
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 10
the United States as 1t natures without
any extension CT time or change Of terms
or conditions.
A public Office IL q public trust. No per-
or party should be trusted who hss
once violated that trust. Every citizen
should contribute TO the support OF the
Government in proportion to his means
and 10 accordance with the necessity OF
good government. bnt NO Government
should augment this burden or enlarge
its necessities by unnecessary. needless in
terest bearing debts making useless CT.
or By failing 10 promptly col
lsct what is justly due il, whether II be .
q tax or tariff.
No grant should be made OF public prop
erty for any other than q public purpose.
and 10 IL The duty OF the Government to
sscure to the public the enjoyment of the
benefit which was the consideration OF the
grant or declare ID forfeited.
We demand Government ownership Of