Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1896-07-31
be silver Convention PLATFORM.


.Tht following Is the platform.
Tl National Silver Party, in convention
atse4l lied, hereby adopts the following dec
lnratth Of principles:
Flft-The paramount issue at this time in
tie VI tied States Is indisputably the money
qne4ip- lf is between the gold standard,
gold tnds and bank currency on the one
side 30 the bimetallic standard, no bonds
and fqernment currency On the other. On
this bte wedeclare ourselves to be in favor
Of afttinctively American financial system
We ntunalterably opposed to tie single gold
standHd and demand the immediate return
to the constitutional standard of gold and
silver py. tho restoration by this govern
ment hdependently of any foreign power, Of
the IN fstricfed coinage of both gold and sill
yer jm standard money, at the ratio of 16 tc
and pom terms OF exact equality. as they
exiSte prior to 1873; the silver coin to be full
legal e der, equally with gold, for all debts
and Z, q private and public, and we favor
such X Eslati0n as win prevent for the future
the de- fnetization of any kind of legal ten
der me ~ BY private contract
We h4d that the power to control and reg
ulafe paper currency is inseperable from
the pow 70 coin money and hence that all
currenff intended to circulate as money
should issued, and its volume controlled
by the neral government only and should
De legal Ender.
We ar1nnalterahiy opposed to the issue by
the UntI States OF interest-bearing bonds
N time 4 peace and we denounce as blum
Or Worh1th than crime, the present treasury
policy dRurred insby Republican house,
Of plung II the country into debt by the hum
dreds Of billions In the vain attempt to main
tain the Pld standard by borrowing gold;
and We dfnand the payment Of all coin obli-
cations Qtthe United States as provided by
existing rs, In either gold or silver coin, at
the optioPf the government and not at the
option OF ke creditor.
second That over and above all other
Questions II policy We are in favor of re-
storing 70 BE people OF the United States,
the tilne- pored money of the constitution
gold and silver. not one, but both-the
money Of Washington and Hamilton and
Jefferson Monroe and Jackson, and Lin
coin, to thtend that the American people
may der;ya honest pay for an honest pro-
duct; that te American debtor may pay his
just obligattns In an honest standard and
not in statiard that has appreciated 100
per cent. i've all the great staples Of our
country; an to the end, further, that silver
standard cohtries may be deprived of the
unjust adyatage they now enjoy in the diff
ference in efhange between gold and silver
an adyantke which tariff legislation alone
cannot oyertme.
We thereff confidently appeal to the peo-
pie of the 8ted States to leave in abeyance
for the mom4t all other questions, howeyer
important Ind however momentoue
they may appear, to sever, il need
be, all foher partyties and affilia-
tions and UNI in one supreme effort to free
themselves aa their children from the do
minion of thdhoney power-a power more
destructive thh any which has ever been
fastened uponlhe civilized men of any race
in any age. hd upon the consumnation of
these desires Id efforts we invoke the gra-
cious fayor Of livme Providence"