Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1896-10-09
REPUBLICAN TERRITORIAL PLAT
FORM.

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We heartily endorse the platform
adopted at st. Louis by the republic
can national conventions; we are 10
favor Of 5imetallism or the coinage
and concurrent circulation of both
gold and silver as money, on a parity
with each other in debt paying and
purchasing power.
We are in favor Of international BIZ
metallism as final and desirable set
Element Of the money question, mas
much as II would open the markets
and mints OF other nations TO the coin
age and use silver as money, and cstab-
lish and maintain at all times parity
between the metals.
We believe it to be the duty of the
United States to coin, free of charge,
the product of its gold and silver
mines, so long as the equality of the
dollars coined can be preserved; we
are opposed to the coinage OF foreign
silver in the American mints as an
unjust discrimination by this nation
against its own citizens; and we de-
nounce the democrotic party for de-
clarng in its platforms, national and
territoritorial, in favor of opening our
mints to the free coinage OF foreign
silver and its refusal to declare in
favor of preserving the parity between
the metals coined, thus endangering
the eqnality-in the value of our money
and jeopardizing the business interests
of our country with a fuctuating and
unstable currency.
/. We hold that American citizenship
is underestimated when an American
citizen may be compelled to wait
while foreigners are using our mints
for the free coinage OF foreign silver.
We are opposed to the exclusive use
of gold or the exclusive use OF silver as
money metal, but are in favor Of the
use of both as fixed policy Of the
5 American government.
. We demand for all of the industrie:
! of this territory and particularly those
! of silver, wool, live stock, hides, coal
r timber, lead and fruit growing, sucf
r legislation by the congress of tht
r United States as will protect these in
. dustrles against the cheap productso o
foreign countries.
We demand protection agains
cheap foreign labor.
We insist that the laboring classe
70 should be bettered in their condition
dignified in their character and thei
4 wages maintained so that they can dc
rive a reasonable product beyond thei
t. actual necessary expenses, and we In
sist that the markets of the Uniteu
: States, which are the best in tn
world, shall be preserved for our ow
Z; people and for our own products.
IO We favor assistance 10y the federa
80 government for the irrigation Of a
our lands, and insist that prope
n n measures shall be adopted under tn
90 interstate commerce power Of col
" gress to protect the people of this te
= ritory against the unlawful and extrt
VACANT appropriation OF the 0wateIs.C
any and all SIRENS which rise outsid
Of this territory and flow into it, froI
which our people derive and hay
heretofore derived waters for the irT
CATION of their lands, and we favor a
pr extensive system of reservoirs IN
water basins, to be constructed by Il
co federal government in this terrific
- for the Retirement and developmel
OF our arid lands, and that the san
lands shall be donated TO the terrific
under suitable restrictions for its d
posal and use.
We also favor a system of expel
ments to be adopted and carried on
l0o the government in sinking artesii
= wells on the arid lands, and the dew
opment of water supplies for our ag
cultural and mining intesests, belle
w ing that byso doing great benefits "
result to all interests in this terrltol
i'd. We are opposed to any substitute
congressional legislation Of free S
a. yer provision for tariff measure, or
tariff measure for free silver pl
, vision, but insist that all legislati
on these subjects shall stand on
y. own merits.
We insist upon liberal administ
tion of the pension laws, providing
co. the maintenance of the disabled S
40 diers and sailors of the Union a
those dependent upon them, and c'
. denim the policy Of the present adm
istration which sought by unfair c.
struction, to diminish rather than
Feed The Nerves
.,oo Upon pure, rich blood and you M
not fear nervous prostrarion. Ner
are weak when they are impropt
and lnsufficiently nourished. p
blood is their proper food, and p
blood comes by taking Hoods sarsa
% rlla, which is the greatest and
ra-v. tonic n also builds up