Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1895-11-23
sTEwART's PLATFORAE.
The One He Would Like TO Have the
/ POpulists Adopt I'm 1SO0.-We Can
All stand ON 1t.-A winning Gard
for That Party, Because 1t Does Not
Propose to Accomplish Too Much at
Once.

l. Money is a creation of law,
and it is the duty of the general
government to furnish a sufficient
volume of full legal tender money,
as basis Of circulation and credit,
to sustain the stability of general
prices.
q. We.deny the right of the gov
ernment to delegate to banks, pri-
vate corporations or private parties,
the power to issue money, and con-
denim the national bank legislation
which confers upon private corpora
tions the power to issue money, and
are opposed to the perpetuation of
that power by the further issuance
of interest-bearing bonds, and de-
mand the repeal of all laws whereby
banks are permitted to issue money
and control its volume.
3. That it is the duty of the gov
ernment to restore, without delay,
the laws of 1884 and 1887, which
provided for the equal and unlimit-
ed coinage of both gold and silver
at the ratio of 16 to l, and to use
both gold and silver as full legal
tender money for the payment of
all claims against the government.
We condemn the action of the Re-
publican party in demonetizing sill
YER in 1878, and denounce such act
as the greatest crime of all the ages.
We denounce the action of every
subsequent Republican administra-
ton and every subsequent Republi-
can Congress for their efforts to
perpetuate said crime. We denounce
the action of the Democratic party
under the dictation of Grover Cleve-
land for endorsing the crime of 1878
and consummating the same by re-
pealing every law on the statue
books recognizing silver as a money
metal.
A. We demand that all obliga-
tions of the government shall be
paid according to the contracts un-
der which they were created and
that contracts payable in coin shall
be paid in either gold or silver coin
whichever is most convenient for the
government of the United States
and we denounce the Republican
and Democratic parties in confining
the payments of said obligations tc
gold alone, whereby the burden o1
all debts have been enormously in.
creased, causing ruin and bankrupt
cy throughout the land, and prac'
tically confiscating the hard earn
ings of the laboring masses of the
United States.
5. We favor the union of all
citizens of the United States who
are in favor of an independent fl
nancial- policy by the government
of the United States, regardless Of
the action of any foreign syndicate
or power, and deplore the Disgrace
full surrender of the control of the
finances of this country to an alien
gold syndicate, whose only interest
is to make money dear and the pro-
ducts of industry cheap, and we es-
pecially condemn the action Of the
two old parties in their persistent
efforts to legislate in favor of banks
and bondholders against the interest
of the people.
6. We view with alarm, the
growing tendency, of the Executives
of the United States and particular
ly. the present administration, to
usurp control of the local affairs Of
the States, through the military
and judicial power of the general
yovornment and insist that the