Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-06-14
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O other make. From the earliest period of our history up to 1873 the right of the debtor to choose whether he should pay his debts in silver or gold coin was always recognized. The subsequent policy has been to transfer this right to the creditor thus tending to con stantly increase the value of the dearer metal and destroy the parity between them.
 Believing that it is absolutely neces- sary to reverse the iniquitous and ruinous policy, we therefore resolve:
 That we favor the immediate restora- tion of silver to its former place as a full legal tender. standard money. equal with gold, and the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at the ratio of l6 to and upon terms of exact equality.
 That while we should welcome the CO., operation of other nations, we believe that the United States should not wait upon the pleasure of foreign governments or tho consent of foreign creditors, tut should themselves proceed to reverse tho grind ing procedure re-that is, destroying tho prosperity of the pcnrlC-and should lead by their example the nations of the earth.
 That tho rights of American people,
 
 the prosperity of American industry have a higher claim to the consideration of tho people lawmakers than the greed of for eign creditors or the aVariCiuus demands of idle holders of capital the right to regulate it's own monetary system in the interests of ils own people-a right which no free government cau barter. sell or sur render. This reserved right Is a part of every bond. of every contract and of ev- ,t,f \ n. can set up right that can take prece- dence over nations obligations to pro mote the welfare of tho masses of it's own people This iS Inc de>t higher and more binding than aN other debts and one which is not only honest. but treason able 10 ignore
 The rAuprr aud the Plutocrat.
 Under the 1inarc.al policy that now prevails wc 500 t!o land iil Ul with idle and discontented wurkingmeu and an ever growing army of trami,s- men whom lack of work and opportunity havo made outcasts and beggars At tho other end We find that a few thousand families own one half tho wealth of the country. The ocntralization of wealth has gone hand in hand with the spread of poverty. The pau per and pluto rat are twin children of the same vicious and unholy system. The situation is full of menace to the liberties l of the people and the life of the republic. | The isSIc is enfranchisemCnt or hopeloss servitudo Whatever the power of money can 60 by te!auchery and corruption to maintain its grasp on the lawmaking pow l CT will be q, nr We therefore appeal to the plain people of tho peril that confrOnts them and dctond the citadel of their fiber ties with vigilance that shall neither slumhCr nor sleep
 ,f h, | quently interrupted hy tumultuouS ap- 1 plauss, and they were adopted with hur- rah without discussion.
 | The following resolution was also pre- | sented and adopted:
 | " Resolved, That a committee composed l of one member from each state be appointed l by the delegates thereof in this conven- 1 tion. whose duty il shall be to correspond with the reprCsonIati\e es and advocates of | bimetallism and bimetallic societies in the different sections of the l'nion and devis measures to advance the cause of binret allism throughout the United States. | That this committee shall have power to cause a national conference of bimetal. lists whenever in the opinion uf the com mittee the cause of himetalliSm can be ad vanced thereby. Said committee shall have power to i'll all vacancies.
 TiIlman Causes a Sensation.
 Benjamin R. Tillman, the Populist United States senator from South Carroll, | na, whose appearance everybody had beer l looking forward to with great interest | was expected to furnish the sensation oi the convention. In mild way this ex pectation was realized. Senator Tillman': original manner and plain speech attract | ed his hearers at once, and he held theil close attention for over an hour. He saiC in part:
 Some three or four weeks ago there as sembled in this city body called to teacf the southern people the meaning of sound money. After putting in motion all thu secret agencies and the use of illimitablI money and drumming up delegates from this chamber of commerce and that bank they assembled here to tell us what Wal the meaning of sou ad money, and aftel having the people of this city, whose loan from the banks make them subservient t. the banking interests, turn out, they sue oeeded in drumming up large gathering and had the secretary of the treasury her to tell us tho difference between sounC money now and sound money in 1878. | And, God save them, by request of tn president, they had three cuckoos, wh' sold their birthright for the mess of pot tage (applause); three congressmen only and saw in the paper ill which l rea' about it there was not solitary farme in the party.
 That is the condition now of the Dem ocratio party. Now this has direct bear ing on silver, and you will see 1t directly What Is that condition? As a Democrat am almost ashamed to catalogue 1t or speal of it in m assembly almost Democratic The president whom we elected by a vot almost larger than that received by an. predecessor, has betrayed the party. Thor is no use to deny that fact. use the goo' honest language that you know. and be lieye he is first cousin to Benedict Arnol' ta politics"