Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-06-19

money, whether coin or paper, at the
present standard, the standard of the
most enlightened nations of the earth
AS the declaration of 1892 has been by
majority Of the party construed to JUS
tify single gold standard for our none
tary basis, and as the recent
Trend of the Official Power.
of the party has been in that direction,
we can but assume that the money plank
of the new platform, being much more
favorable to the perpetuity of gold mono-
metallism, will be determinedly used in
behalf of that idea. The republican
party has won its power and renown by
pursuing its purpose courageously and
relentlessly. 1t is therefore. only in ac-
cordanee with the party's history to as
sumo that If it shall come to present au-
thority in the United States it will crys-
tallize into law and administration
under this tempting platform the per-
petual single gold standard in our
finances. This, If long continued will
mean the absolute ruin of the producers
of the country and finally of the nation
itself.
THE American people not only favor
bimetallism from tradition and interest,
but from that wise instinct which has al
ways been manifested in the affairs of
a people. Under the operation of our
great demand for advancement we have
become to other nations the greatest
debtor nation of the world.
I'VE pay the vast charges which every
year accumulate against us in the clear
ing house of the world with the money of
the world, procured by the disposal of
our commodities in the markets of the
world.
1--WE are nation of producers. Our
creditors are nations of consumers. Any
system of national or international
finance which elevates the price of the
human product makes our burden lighter
and gives promise of that day when it
shall be entirely lifted and our country
freed financially, as it is politically, from
the domination of monarchy and foreign
autoeraey Any system of finance which
tends to depreciate the price of human
productions that we must sell abroad but
in SO far adds to the burden of our debt
and conveys q threat of perpetual
servitude of the producers of our debtor
nation to the consumers of creditor ma
tons. To us it is
A Folly Without Parallel
that this country or any political party
therein should deliberately accept a
money system which enriches others at
our COST History, philosophy, morals,
all join with the commonest instinct of
self-preservation in demanding that the
United States shall have just and sub
stantially unvarying standard composed
of all available gold and silver, and with
1t our country will progress to financial
enfranchisement. But with a single gold
hewers of wood and drawers of water
for the consumers in creditor nations of
the earth.
"To such an unholy end we will not
lend ourselves. Dear as has been the re-
publican name to it's adherentS, that
name is not so dear as the faith itself;
thus we do not sacrifice one jot or little
of the mighty principles by which re-
publicanism has uplifted the world when
we say that at the parting of the ways
where it will, we hold that this conven-
ton has seeded from the truth; that the
triumphs of such secession would be the
eventual destruction of our freedom and
our civilization. To that end this people
will not knowingly follow any political
party, and we choose to take our place
in the ranks of the great mass of citi-
zens who realize that the
Hour Has Come for Justice.
Did we deem this issue less important to
humanity we would yield, since the as
socations of all our political lives have
been intertwined with the men and the
measures of this party of past mighty
achievements. But the people cry aloud
for relief. They are bending beneath
burden growing heavier with the pass
ing hours Endeavor no longer being
slver's just reward; fearfulness takes
the place of courage and despair usurps
the throne of hope, and unless the laws
of the country and the policies OF the
political parties shall be converted into
mediums of redress, the effect of human
desperation may sometime be witnessed
here as in other lands and in other ages.
Accepting the fiat of this convention
as the present purpose of the party we
withdraw from this convention to return
to our constituents the authority with
which they invested us, believing that
we have better discharged their trust by
this action, which restores to them au-
thority unsullied, than by giving coward
1y and insincere Endorsement to the
greatest wrong ever willfully attempted
within the republican party, once the re-
deemer of the people,, but now about to
become their oppresser. unless provi-
dentially restrained by the votes of free
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