The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1896-07-08

gether Us the money metals Of the United
States and that the first coinage law
passed by congress under the constitution
made the silver dollar the unit of value,
and admitted gold to free coinage at a ra-
ito measured by the silver dollar unit
We declare that the act of 1873 demone-
tizing silver without the knowledge or APP
proval Of the American people has re-
suited in the appreciation of gold and q
corresponding fall in the prices of com
modities produced by the people heavy
increase in the burden of taxation and of
all debts, public and private; the enrich
ment Of the money lending classes at home
and abroad paralysis of industry and i'm
poverishment Of the people,
We are unalterably opposed to the single
gold standard which has locked fast the
prosperity of an industrious people in the
paralysis of hard times Gold monometal-
ism is a British policy founded upon Brit
ish greed for gain and power, and its gen
eral adoption has brought other nations
into financial servitude to London. 1t is
not only un-American but utanti-American,
and it can be fastened upon the United
States only by the sitting of that indom-
liable spirit and love of liberty which pro-
claimed our political independence in 1910
and won it in the war of the revolution.
We demand the immediate restoration
of the free and unlimited coinage of gold
and silver at the present legal ratio of 10
to /, without waiting for the aid or con-
sent of any other nation. We demand
that the standard silver dollar shall be a
full legal tender, equally with gold, for all
debts, public and private, and we favor
such legislation as will prevent the de-
monetization ofany kind of legal tender
money by private contract
We are opposed to the issue Of interest
bearing bonds OF the United States in
times OF peace and condemn the trafiicking
with banking syndicates which, in ex-
change for bonds and at an enormous
profit to themselves, supply the federal
treasury with gold to maintain the policy
of gold monometallism.
Congress alone has the power to coin
and issue money and President jackson
declared that this power could not be dele
gated to corporations or individuals. We
therefore demand that the power TO issue
notes be taken from the banks, and that
all paper money shall be issued directly by
| the treasury department.
There would have been no deficit in fed
eral revenue during the last two years but
/ for the annulment by the supreme court
| of the income tax law placed upon the
! statute books by Democratic congress
/ The obstruction to an income tax which
/ the supreme court discovered in the con-
! stitution after 1t had lain hidden for q
/ hundred years must be removed, to the
end that accumulated wealth may be made
to bear its Just share of the burdens of the
! government We therefore favor an
amendment to the federal constitution
that will permit the levy Of an income tax.
We hold that tariff duties should be
levied solely for purposes of revenue, and
that taxation should be limited by the
Oeeds of the government, honestly and
economically administered. We denounce
as disturbing to business the Republican
threat to restore the Mckinley law, which
has been twice condemned by the people
In national elections and which, enacted
under the false plea of protection TO home
industry, proved prolific breeder OF
trusts and monopolies enriched the few
at the expense of the many, restricted
trade and deprived the producers OF the
great American staples of access to theil
natural markets
We denounce the prohigate waste OF tbs
money wrung from the people by oppres
sive taxation and the lavish appropria
tions of recent Republican congresses
which have kept taxes high while the la
Dor that pays them is unemployed and tn
products of the peoples toll are depressed
in price till they no longer repay the cos
of production,
We denounce arbitrary interference b,
federal authorities in local affairs as
violation of the constitution of the Unite'
States and crime against free institu
tions and we especially object to govern
ment by injunction as "a new and hight
dangerous form Of oppression by whicl
federal judges, in contempt of the laws @
the states and the rights of citizens, be
come at once legislator, Judge and execu
tioner.
The platform further opposes life tenuI
In public service, and declares that no ma
should be eligible for third term as pres
dent 1t Is likely that Cuban resolutio
will be added bV the general committee,