Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1896-06-25
THE REPUBLICAN DELEGATES APPEAL
Address Issued by National Republican Delegates
to the Country. Reasons for Their Refusal
to Support the Platform.
Plain and Candid Statement by Old Time Repub.
licans Which is Worth the Perusal and
Consideration of Every Man.

VI GvSIy N40S1s
velopments and achievements of ease and
comfort to the favored of mankind In the
still greater and more important domain
of social reform We have stood still or
retrogressed.
1t is not that the people have not felt
the STRINGS Of determination, that this
inaction has endured; but because CT the
rule Of party which has largely controlled
men in and out of office. 1t has become u
source of reproach to any man that he
should dare to renounce all allegiance to
organization Men have been expected to
submit their views to the dictation OF
conventions, although it is coa:ncn
knowledge that conventions have been
Ewayed to views and declarations not the
most approved by the mass Of the people
nor progressive for their welfare.
Truth Never Becomes Obsolete.
We do not arrogate to ourselves ono
iota more Of intelligence, patriotism or
courage than is possessed by any OF our
fellow citizens. But we feel that the time
has come for the performance of a duty to
the country and for our part, though we
shall stand alone, we will make an en-.
deavor in the performance of that duty.
Parties may ontlive their usefulness; the
truth never becomes obsolete. Every gen
Grafton of freemen has the right to affirm
the truths of past knowledge and present
requirement; and II the enforcement OF
these truths shall make necessary depa1t-
ure from party organization, the people
have this right and will exercise it until
other parties shall be created to effect 1t
Into law.
II the voices which have sounded to us
from every state in the Union are an indi-
cation Of the real feeling, this year is the
appointed time for the people to assert
themselves, through such mediums as
may give best promise OF the achievement
Of justice. But whether we are mistaken
or not concerning the general sentiment
in the United States, we have not mis-
taken our own duty in withdrawing from
the Republican convention, feeling 1t Is
better to be right and with the minority
in apparent defeat than to be wrong with
the majority in apparent triumph.
Money Reform the First Requisite.
Wehold that in the great work Of social
evolution in this country, monetary re-
form stands as the first requisite. NO
policy, however promising Of good results
can take its place. Continuation during
the next four years upon the present fnan'
cial system will bring down upon the
American people that cloud Of impending
evil, to divert which should be the first
thought Of statesmen and the first prayer
Of patriots. Our very institutions are 1t
stake. Today, with the rapidly increas-
ing population, with widely swelling de-
mands the basis Of our money isrelatively
contracting; and the people are passing
into servitude all the more dangerous
because 1t is not physically apparent. The
nation itself, as to other nations, is losing
the sturdy courage which could make 1t
defiant in the face Of injustice and internal
wrong.
All Shrink From 0iviag Onsnss.
From the farmer and tradesman to the
government there is apparent the shrink
geance of some offended financial power
should descend. The business man sub.
mits some portion Of his judgment and
his will, and the nation submits some
portion Of it's International right lest some
mighty foreign creditor shall make de-
structive demands. Where will all this
end II the people shall decline to assert
themselves9 Where will 1t end If the
older parties, in their determination to
maintain themselves in power for powers
sake alone, shall refuse to recognize the
right and the hope of humanity? This
country cannot much longer exist FREQ
and independent against all the rest Of tho
world, nor can It's people much longer be
free in the noblest sense of the term if the
United States, debtor nation, shall fol-
low policy dictated by creditor nations
We produce all of the necessaries of life.
Other nations consume our product. In
the race for existence it is constant
Struggle Between Producer and Consumer.
Our present system of money deliberately
submits to the desire and the profit Of
creditor nations, leaving us in the mass
and as individuals, u prey to the money
gathering and the deadly cheapening Of
the old world. AS the debt to creditors
increases on the masses of the nations, the
price Of human production on the farm
and in the workshop is decreased with
appalling rapidity, exacting more and
more toll from our citizens to meet the
given demand and holding over their
heads threat of the day when contlsca-
ton to meet their obligations will leave
them bare and defenseless. The only rem
edy is to stop falling prices-the dcadliest
curse of national life. Prices will never
cease falling under the gold standard.
What Bimetallism Will Do.
The restoration Of bimetallism by this
country will double the basis Of our money
system. In time it will double the stock
Of primary money of the world-will stop
falling prices and steadily elevate them
until they will regain their normal rela-
ton to the volume of debts and credits in
the world Binetallism will bring about
the great hope Of every social reformer,
every believer in the advancement Of the
race who realizes that the instability of
prices has been the deadly foe of our toll
ers and the servant of the foreign interest
gatherer. Binetallism will help bring the
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