The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-07-30

ing down WITH tncIu prUpUrTlUhaiIy tue
money value Of all other forms Of property.
Such fall Of prices has destroyed the profits
of legitimate industry, ~injuriug the producer
for the benefit Of the GOn-prOductiye, in
crca-ing the burden of the debtor. swell
ing the gains Of the creditor, paralyZing
the energies of the American people, rele-
eating the idle vast numbers of willing
workers, sending the shadows OF despair
into the home 0f the hoaest toiler, filling
the land with tramps and paupers. aud
building up colossal fortunes al the money
centers. In the effort 10 maintain the gold
standard. the country has within the last
two years. in a time Of profound peace
and plenty. been loaded down with S2t2,-
900, go of additional interest-beari ring debt.
under such circumstances AZ 10 allow a syn
dictate Of native and foreign bankers TO
realize a net profit Of millions on a single
deal. 1t stands confessed that the gold
standard can only be upheld by SO depicting
our paper currency as TO force the prices
of our products below the European aud
even below the Asiatic Level, to enable us
to sell in foreign markets, thus aggravating
the very evils Of which our people SO bit
terly complain, degrading American labor
and striking az the POUNDS lions OF our civil.
zatlon itself. The advocates of the gold
standard persistently ciaiG that the cause
OF cur distress Is over production-thet we
have produced TO much that 1t has made
US pOOE-NHiCu Implies mat Tue true VII
edy is 10 close the factory, abandon the
farm and throw a multitude of people out
of employment. 4 doctrine that leaves us
unneryed and diSheartencd and absolutely
without hope for the future. We affirm 1t
TO he unGuestfoned that this can be no
such economic paradox az over production
and at the same time tens Of thousands
Of our feIlow-ciszens remaining hslf-clothed
and half-fed and who are piteOusly clamor-
Ing for the common necessities of life.
over and above all other questions of
policy we are in favor Of restoring to the
people of the United States the tnne-honored
money of the cpustitution-goid aud silver,
not one, but boNfthe money Of Washing
ton and Hamilton and jefferson, Monroe,
Jackson and Lincoln. to the end that the
American people may receive honest pay
for an honest product, that the American
debtor may pay his just obligations in an
honest standard and not in a standard that
has appreciated one hundred per cent above
all the great staples of our country, and to
the end further that silver standard coun-
tries may be deprived Of the unjust adyan-
tage they now enjoy in the difference In
exchange between gold and silver. an adj
vantage which tariff legislation alone cannot
overcome. We therefore confidently appeal
to the people of the United States to leave
in allegiance for the moment al other ques-
tons, however important and even mCmen-
tous they may appear, to Sunder, If need be,
all former party ties and affiliations and
unite in one supreme effort to free them
selves and their children from the DONNA
ton of the money I,0wer a power more
destructive than any which has ever been
fastened upon the civilized men of any
race or in any age. Aud upon the consum-
nation of oHr desires and efforts we invoke
the gracious favor of divine providence.
Inasmuch as the patriotic majority of the
Chicago convention. embodied in the fnan-
Ijn miami of ita tho ri ~
enunciated In the platform of the American
Bimetallic party, promulgated at Washing
ton, II. c., January -, 1896, and herein
reiterated. which is net only the paramount.
but the only real issue in the pending cam
paign, therefore recognizing that their
nominees embody these patriotic principles.
we recommend that this convention nomi-
nate William J. Bryan Of Nebraska for
president, and Arthur Sewall of Maine for
vice president.