The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-07-04

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United states. In such terms the plat
form vas then satisfactory to the be-
levers in ~bimetallism within our party;
once because of eqIfyocal construction
and evasion, and since 1t has been DEM
onstrated to be insufficient, THE plat
form this day adopted in the national
republican convention at st. Louis says:
The republican party is uniesefvedly
for sound money. L. caused the enact
nient of the Law providing for the re-
sumption of specie payment III 1879;
since then every dollar has been as good
as gold.
We are unalterably opposed to every
move 10 debase our currency or impair the
credit'of orr country. We are. therefore,
opposed to the free coinage of silver except
by inGeFnational agreement with the lead
ing nations of the world, which We pledge
ourselves to promote. and unless an agree
menut can be arranged. tho existing gold
standard must be preserved.
All our silver paper currency now
N circulation must be maintained at par
ny with gold, and we favor all measures
aesigned 10 maintain inviolahlg these OBJ
legations of the United States and all our
money, either coin or paper. at the present
standard. the standard of The most en-
heightened nations of the earth"
AS the declaration OF 1892 has been CON
strIedl by a majority of the party. con-
strued to justify n single gold standard
for our monetary basis, and as the recent
has been in that direction, we can but as
sumo that the money plank of the new
PLATFORM, being much more favorable to
terminedly used In behalf of hat idea. The
republican party has Won its power and
renown by pursuing its purpose courage
ously and relentlessly, it is therefore only
in accordance with the party's history to
assume that il it shall come to put author
lily in the United States it Will crystalize
platform, the perpetual single gold stand
ard in our finances. This. II long contin-
ued; will mean the absolute ruin OF the
nation itself. The American people not
only favor bimetallism from tradition and.
interest, but from the wise instinct which
a people destined for the worlds leader
ship. Under the operation of our great de-
mand for Advancement we have become TO
other nations the greatest debtor nation of
the world. We pay the vast charges which
every year accumulate against us in the
clearing houses of the world. with the
money Of the world procured by the dis.
rosal Of our commodities in the markets. OF
the world. We are a nation OF
Our creditors are nations of consumers:
Any system of international or national
finance which elevates the price of human
product makes our burdens lighter and
gives promise of that day when it shall be
entirely lifted and our country freed imam
cially as 1t Is politically. from the donin-
alton of monarchy and foreign autocracy.
Any system of financ which tends to de-
preciate the price of human productions,
Nv We Ib'S gu tibiS h'as IVY
adds to the burden of our debt and conveys
a threat of the perpetual serritude OF the
producers of our debtor nation to the con-
sumers of creditor nations.
To us 1t is folly without a parallel mat
this country or any political party therein
should deliberately accept a money system
which emriches others at our cost.
History, philosophy, morals, all Join with
the commonest instinct of self-preserva-
ton In demanding that the United States
shall have a Just and substantially UNI
VARYING STA conlDOSel of all avail
able gold and silver. and with ii our coun-
try will progress to financial enfranchise-
ment. But with n single gold standard the
country will go on to worse Destruction,
to continued falling prices; until our people
would become the hewers of wood and the
lawer of water for the consumers in
creditor nations of The earth.
To such an unhoiy end we will not lend
ourselves. Dear as has been the republican
dear as the faith itself And we DO not
sacrifice one jot or one title of the mighty
principles by which republlcanism has up
lifted the world when we say that at this
let the name so where 1t will. We hold
that this convention has seeded from the
truth: thai. the triumph of such secession
would be the eventual destruction of our
freedom and our civilization. 10 that end
the people will not knowingly follow any
political party; ana We chose 10 take our
place in the ranks of the great mass of
citizens who realize that the hour has
come for Justice. Did we deem this issue
less important to humanity we would
yield. since the associations OF all our po-
litical lives have been interviewed with
the men and the measures OF this great
party of past achievements. But the peo-
pie cried aleud for relief: they are bending
beneath a burden growing heavier with
the passing hours; endeavor no longer
brings It's Just reward; fearfulness takes
the place of courage and despair usurps
the throne Of hope. and unless the laws. OF
the country and the policies OF political
parties shall be converted into mediums of
redress, the effect of human desperation
may some time he witnessed here as in
other lands and In other ages.
Accepting the hat of this convention as
the present purpose of the party, we With
draw from the convention to return to our
constituents the authority with which
they invested us, believing that we AVE
better discharged their trust by this ac-
ton which restores to them the authority
unsullied, han by giving cowardly and in
sincere Endorsement to the greatest wrong
ever wilfuliy attempted within the repub-
lican party-once redeeiner of the people.
bnt now about to become their oppressor,
unless pravidentially restrained by the
votes of free men.
At Mr.. Cannon's closing words, declar-
Ing that the republican party, once the
redeemer of the people was now about
to become its oDpresser, a storm of
Kisses and groans was raised from all
parts of the hall ana cries of Down.
We're raised.