Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1894-11-24
PLATFORM AND RESOLUTIONS.

Your Committee on Platform and
Resolutions would respectfully report as
follows:
The Silver Party Of Nevada. in Conven.
ton assembled. at 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 70 pass
any law restricting or sbridging the privi-
legs Of any citizen-to the free coinsge OF
silver into standard money Of the legal
ratio Of 16 to l independent Of any other
nation, and We demand the repeal Of all
laws denying or a~bridging that right.
We assert that any Law denying or
abridging the right Of free coinage OF gold
and silver into standard money ct the legal
ratio OF 16 to / independent OF any other
nation, 10 . denial OF the sovereignty Of
The people OF the United States O. . nstion
and Independent State, anda law In re-
straint and abridgment Of production and
commerce.
We assert that from 1851 10 1894 inclu.
sive. aperiod OF 81 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 - OF uninterrupted bountiful hAr-
vests and bountiful production from all
our great natural resources and that our
| people have made unparalleled advances
10 skill, In every branch Of manufacture
and artizanship. that the period has been
one OF general health. and Notwithstanding
the civil war, o period OF unparalleled
prosperity from 1861 down TO 1873. 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 decadepce 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 Ia worth
less than so per cent Of it's standard coin.
age value 1T the legal ratio Of 16 to I.
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 demonetiza-
ton Of silver 10 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
fully adequate for the requirements OF
business. That all money should be a
legal tender for debts both public and pri-
vste. That no money should exist except
such ss 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 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 TO
the United States a. it natures without
any extension CT time or change OF terms
or conditions.
A public office Is g 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 10 his means
and 10 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.
penditures. or by failing TO promptly col.
lsct what Is justly due IL, whether ID be Q
loan, a tax or tariff.
No grant should be made OF public prop
erty for any other than Q public purpose,
secure TO the public the enjoyment OF the
benefit which was the consideration OF the
grant or declare ID forfeited.
We demand Government ownership Of