The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-02-01
THE SILVER PARTY.
Organized in Washington Thursday
Of Last Week.

The great silver conference in
Washington this week resulted in an
animated discussion of the financial
situation and the policy to be pur.
sued by friends of silver. During
the discussion considerable feeling
was aroused by the remarks of Gen.
Hatch of Missouri, who stated in eff
feet that if the populists of Kentucky
had done their whole duty, the cleo
ton of Blackburn to the United
States senates would not be a matter
of doubt. Gen. Field of Virginia
and others made heated replies.
Mayor Turner Of Lansing and Sena-
tor Stewart also gave addresses. The
committee on resolutions, Of which
Senator Jones Of Nevada is chairman,
submitted a report as follows:
"The paramount issue at this time
in the United States is indisputably
the money question. On this issue
we declare ourselves to be in favor
Of a distinctively American financial
system. We are unalterably opposed
to a single gold standard and demand
the immediate return to the constitu-
tional standard of gold and silver by
the restoration by this government
independently of any foreign power,
of the unrestricted coinage of both
gold and silver into standard money,
at the ratio Of IS to l, upon the
terms of exact equality as they exist
ed prior to 1878; the silver coin to
be full legal tender, equal with gold
for all debts and dues, public and
private.
"We hold hat the power to con-
troll and regulate a 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 con-
trolled by the general government
only and should be legal tender.
ave are u~nalterably opposed tc
the issue by tn" United States of in.
terest bearing bonds in time Of peace
and we denounce as a blunder worse
than a crime the present treasury
policy, ~cconcurred in by a republican
house, of plunging the country into
debt by hundreds of millions in E
vain attempt to maintain the golc
gtandard by borrowing gold; ant
we demand the payment of all coli
obligations of the United States al
provided by existing laws, in eithe:
gold or silver coin at the option o
the government, and not at the op
ton of the creditor.
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ave are in favor of restoring t
the people of the United States tn
time honored money of the constitu
ton, gold and silver, not one blu
both, the money of Washington an
Hamilton and Jefferson and Monro
and Jackson and Lincoln, to the en-
that the American people may re
ceive honest pay for honest produc'
the American debtor pay his just Oh
legations in an honest standard, an
not in a standard that is appreciate
100 per cent above the great staple
of our county; and to the end, flu
Their, that silver standard countrie
may be deprived of the unnatural az
vantage they now enjoy in the diff
IS erence in exchange between gold an
i silver, an advantage which tariff leg
It islation cannot overcome.
- awe therefore confidently appe
d to the people of the United Stat
8, that, leaving in obeyance for a M
ment all other questions, and sunde
ing, if need be, all former party aft
liations, they unite in a supreme e
fort to free themselves and their chi
dren from the domination of the m
N ney power, a power more destructi'
1T than any which has ever been taste,
ed upon a civilized people of al
race or in any age, and upon the CO
summation of their desires and effol
IL we invoke the gracious favor of q
If vine providence"