The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-06-11
G APPOINTED.
peoples Party Executive Committee
Meets and Adopts Ringing
. Resolutions.

rbo Executive Committee Of the
n.onIe's party met in this city on the
"a and discussed various matters.
no resolutions printed below were
unanimously adopted:
THE SILVER RESOLUTIONS.
The committee adopted the following
resolutions;
WHEREAS, Our North Carolina patrl-
ia ancestors, in 1888, at the end Of
w. Sven Years War for American
coincidence, before the establishment
- the United States Government, ard
oron before a single American mint
~os omen for the coinage of money of
onv kind, by an act of the legislature
- North Carolina adopted the Spar
oh milled silver dollar" as the unit Of
aoin value, and thereby regulated
tba values of all foreign coins, both
coId and silver, and
WHEREAS. The more recent unpa-
triotic departure from the wise and
bapefcent principles Of coinage law,
laid down by the patriotic founders of
United States Government in the coin
ooa act of Congress in 1892, has been
Instrumental in bringing financial ruin
n the great ses of the American
noonIe. and now even threatens the
destruction of the fundamental prin-
oinIAs Of u republican institutions,
and
WHEREAS. Anational bimetallic con-
ference has been called to meet at
vamnbis, Tenn, on June 18th and 18th,
IN the interest of the money Of the
United States Constitution and of re-
establishing the financial policy of An
drew Jackson and Thomas Jefferson,
and to checkmate the unpatriotic and
dangerous gold crusade just started by
President Cleveland and his Democratic
Secretary of the Treasury, and
WHEREAS, The free and unlimited
coinage of silver and gold at the ratio
Of 16 to l and other paramount fnan
cisl reforms are among the leading
tenets of the Peoples party and were
plainly written in our national plat
form before any other party had the
courage and patriotic fidelity to the
people to declare unequivocally for
such needed reform. and
WHEREAS, The sincere and earnest
advocacy of this policy by the Peoples
party has commended the organization
to the American public, and secured
fOrit an expression of confidence which
has never been equalled for volume in
limited tine by any other political or
ganization in America, for it is here
pointed out that while the presidential
poll Of the nation in 1892, disclosed
more than one million votes for the
party, the eff year political poll of 1894
disclosed nearly two mill n votes
an approx m tie increase of one million
votes in two years; therefore
Resolved, That while we do not sur
render any Of the other principles Of
the Peoples party as expressed in the
Omaha platfcrm; that we do ~reiterate
the former declarations Of the party
thatthe financial question towers above
all others, and therefore we will send
delegates to the aforesaid Memphis
conference to assist in advancing this
principle Of the Peoples party, and to
urge upon the conference the necessity
for uniting all Of the elements Of the
old parties who favor honest financial
reform under the free and unlimittd 16
to l bimetalIic banner Of the Peoples
party.
? That cur delegates be and are
hereby instructed to request the CO..
ference to declare for the Peoples
party, it being the only political organ
lzati0n that has been and is now solidly
united for the money Of the Constitu
ton aud an American fnancia system.
The INCOME TAX RESOLUTIONS.
WHEREAS, The Peoples party in our
national platform declared in favor Of
a graduated United States income tax,
surprising at the time that it had been
settled by precedent and former judi
Gal decision of the United States Su-
preme Court; that Congress might
lawfully impose such taxes under the
Provisions of the United States Consti
tuition and
WHEREAS. The recent decision of the
ma 1rity Of the Judges of the United
States Supreme Court has, in effect,
paraly z9d the powers CT Congress on
the subject of all just and equitable in
come tax; and
WHEREAS An overwhelming mej1r-
~ ofthe American people und, ubtedly
favor the equalization Of the burdens