The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-10-10
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DENIsoN, IOWA, OCTOBER 10, 1899.
Ashamed of It's Platform.

protest against it's publication in a re-
publican paper. For sometime past
the REVIEW has been publishing a
portion of the democratic platform
without comment, simply allowing
democracy to convict itself of absurdity
out of it's own mouth.
1t is quite true that the words we
published do not appear in the new
platform. This was done purposely by
democracy-puTposely to satisfy the
sllverites and at the same time not to
give offense to gold democrats. It was
a cowardly subterfuge and tie fact
that a democratic paper objects to the
publication shows that it was intended
as a subterfuge.
The exact situation is this: the DEM
ocratic platform for 1899 re-a1irms the
national platform of 1896.
1t does not go into details, it sounds
fgOod to reafirm a national platform,
but it is not s good when the platform
is quoted at them.
The REVIEW simply publishes that
which the democrats of Iowa reafirm.
No wonder it makes them mad and
they call it fraud. If a man called o
a liar yesterday and you 60 to him to.
day and he says, II reafirm my state
ment of yesterday" What would it
mean but that he repeated the state
ment that you we're a liar? Would you
be committing a fraud if you said he
called you a liar on both days? This
is the situation in simple terms and we
fail to see wherein the REVIEW has
been guilty of a fraud.
Does the Bulletin deny.that the plat
form of 1899 reafirms the platform of
1882 Does it deny that the paragraphs
quoted appear in the Chicago PLATFORM
If not, its charge of fraud, falls fat and
unproven.
Why should this organ of democracy
be SO angry at the reappearahce of this
ghost OF its own creation. Does it not
believe these statements uttered Off
cially by democracy and backed by it's
demi-god Mr.. Bryan? Did not the
whole democracy make these very
planks the basis of their campaignth three
years ago? Do not these planks con.
stitute the last official declaration of
democracy on the money question?
And are they not officially and speci6-
ca3ly endorsed by the Iowa democrats
this year?
Are you ashamed of the u~tterances
of your party, Mr.. Bulletin? Are you
anxious to conceal a part of your own
creed from your followers? The fol.
lowing is the quotation to which the
Bulletin objects, read it carefully and
You viii see why.
Recognizing that the money question
is paramount to all others at this lime
We invite attention to the fact that The
Federal Constitution names silver and
gold together as the money metals al |
the United States, and that the first
coinage law passed by Congress under
the Constitution made the silver dollar
the monetary unit and admitted gold
10 Tree coinage at a ratio based UPON
Glto Sllver QOllar unit.
we declare that the act of 1873. de-
monetlzing silver without the know
ledge or approval of the American peo-
pie, a resulted in the appreciation of
go!0 ana a corresponding fall in the
prices OF commodities produced by the
People, neavy increase in the burden
OF taxation and of all debts, public and
private; the enrichment of the money
lending class at home and abroad. tHe
prostratiOn of industry and the impov.
erishment Of the people.
We are u~nalterably opposed to mono.
metalism, which has locked fast the
prosperity of on Industrial people in
the paralysis of hard times. Gold mono.
is a British policy. and it's
adopLlon has brought other nations
into servltude to London. It'll
IS not only un-American, but anti
american, and it can be fastened upon
the United States only by the sitting
OF that spirit and love of liberty which |
proclaimed our political i~ndependence
IN l776, and won it in the war of the
Revolution.
FREE SILVER.
We demand the free and unlimited
coinage of both silver and gold at the
present legal ratio of 16 to /. without
waiting for the aid or consent of anv
other nation. We demand that thu
standard silver dollar shall be a fnII
legal tender, equally with gold. for ali |
debts, public or private, and we favor
such legislation as will prevent. for the
future. the decentralization of n kind /
OF legal-tender money by private con
tract.
The Bulletin objects to the above be-
cause it knows that in the light of sub.
sequent events the declarations of
democracy in 1896 have become absurd
In the eyes of all Intelligent men. 1t
objects because it knows that it cannot !
back up the democratic assertions
That the crime of 1873 has resulted in
the prostration of industry and the i'm
p~oyerishment of the people, and that
"monometallism has locked fast the
prosperity OF an industrial people in