Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1896-07-30
THE SILVER PLATFORM.

Text of the Resolutions as Adopted by
the Convention.
The platform as reported by the COM
1nittee, and as finally adopted by the
convention, is as follows:
1.-The national silver party of America,
in convention assembled, hereby, adopts
the following declaration Of principles:
"First-The paramount issue at this time
in the United States @indisputably the
money question. 1t is between the British
gold standard, gold bonds and bank cur
rency on the one side; and the bimetallic
standard, no bonds, government currency
(and an American policy on the other.
ION this issue we declare ourselves to be
in favor of distinctively American fnan-
cial system We are unalterably opposed
to the: single gold standard. and demand
the immediate return tolthe constitutional
standard OF gold and silver. by the restora-
ton by this government, Independently
of any foreign power, of the unrestricted
coinage Of both gold and silver, into
standard money at the ratio of sixteen to
enc. and upon terms of exact equality
as they existed prior to 1873: the silver
coin to be of full legal tender. equally
with gold, for oil debts and dues, public
and private, and we demand such lcgisla-
ton as will prevent for the future the
destruction Of the legal tender quality
of any kind of money by private contract
regulate paper currency is inseparable
from the power to coin money; and, hence.
that all currency intended to circulate as
money should be issued and its volume
controlled by theSgeneral government only.
and should 6e illegal tender. y
1--WE are unalterably opposed to the is
sue by the United States of interest-bear-
ing bonds in time of peace; and we de-
ncunce as a blunder, worse than crime
the present treasury policy concurred in by
republican house. of plunging the coun-
try into debt by hundreds of millions in
the vain attempt to maintain the gold
standard by borrowing gold: and we de-
manQ the payment of all coin obligation of
the United States. as provided by exist
ing laws, in either gold or silver coin, at
the option of the government, and not at
the option of the creditor
Over and above all other questions of
poltcy,1 we are In favor Of restoring to
the people Of the United States the time
honored money of the cons.:tution-gold
and silver, not one but both-the money
of Washington and Hamilton, and JEFF
ferson and Monroe, and Jackson and Lin.
coin. to the end that the American people
may receive honest pay for an honest
product; that the American debtor NAV
pay his just obligations in an honesta
standard and not In a dishonest and unsa
Sound STANDARD appreciated 100 per cent.
in purchasing power, and no appreciation
In debt-paying+ power, and to- the end.
further, that silver standard countries
may be deprived of the unjust advantage
they now enjoy. in the difference In ex-
change between gold and silver-an ad..
vantage which tariff legislation cannot
oveAoome !, n
We therefore confidently appeal to the
people of the United States to hold in abey-
.anee all other questions, however inhpor-
tant and even momentous they may app
pear, to sunder, IL need be-, all former party
ties and affiliations. and ito unite in5one
supreme effort to free themselves and their
children from the domination of money
poWer-a power more destructive than any
which has ever been fastened upon the
civilized men Of any race or in any age.
And upon the contamination OF our desires
and efforts. we evoke the aid Of Ill patriotic
American citizens. and the gracious e.
vor OF Divine spEovideocs.