The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-09-10
Porto Rican, Cuban, Trust, Boer War and Money
Matters Given Attention.
Shows Slight Trace of Temper in His Closing
Argumentative Remarks.
Says All the World Is Familiar With Reasons For
the Chinese Occupation.

of silver at 16 to I. If another issue is
paramount, this is immediate. It will
admit of no delay and will suffer no
poStpOnement
Turning to the other associated par
ties, we find In the Populist national
platform adopted at Sioux Falls, S. D.,
May 10. 1900. the following declaration:
We pledge anew the Peoples party
never to cease the agitation until this
financial conspiracy is blotted from the
statute book, the Lincoln greenback re-
stored, the bonds all paid and all cor
poration money forever retired. We re-
affirm the demand for the reopening of
the mintS of the United States for the
free and unlimited coinage of silver and
gold at the present legal ratio Of 16 TO
/, the immediate increase in the volume
of silver coins and certificates thus Gre
ated to be substituted, dollar for dollar,
for the bank notes issued by private cor
porations under special privilege, grant
ed by law of March II. 1900, and prior
national banking laws
The platform of the Silver party
adopted at Kansas City, July 6, 1900.
makes the following announcement:
I'VE declare it to be our intention to
lend our efforts to the repeal of this cur
rency law, which not only repudiates the
ancient and time-honored principles of
the American people before the constitu-
ton was adopted, but it is violate OF
the principles of the constitution itself;
and we shall not cease our efforts until
there has been established in it's place
a monetary system based upon the free
into money at the present legal ratio of
16 to /, by the independent action of the
United States, under which system all
paper money shall be issued by the gov
ernment and all such money coined or
issued shall be a full legal tender in
payment of all debts, public and private
without exception
In all three platforms these parties
announce their efforts shall be unceasing
until the gold act shall be b1otted from
the statute books and the free and un-
limited coinage OF silver at Is to i shall
take its place
MUST CRUSH THE EVIL.
The relative Importance of the issues
do not stop to discuss All of them are
important. Which ever party is success
full will be bound In conscience to carry
into administration and legislation its
several declarations and doctrines. One
declaration viii be as obligatory as an
other, but all are not Immediate 1t is
not possible that these parties would
treat the doctrine of 16 to l. the immed-
late realization Of which is demanded by
their several platforms, as void and in
operative In the event that they should
be clothed with power. Otherwise their
profession of faith is insincere- It is,
therefore, the imperative business of
those opposed to this financial heresy to
prevent the triumph of the parties whose
union is only assured by adherence to
the silver issue. VIII the American peo-
pie, through Indifference or fancied Sc
cErity, hazard the overthrow of the wise
financial legislation of the past year and
revive the danger of the silver standard
with all of the inevitable evils Of shat
tered confidence and general disaster.
which justly alarmed and aroused them
in 1895?
The Chicago platform Of 1896 is re-
affirmed in its entirety by the Kansas
City convention Nothing has been