Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-28

Turning to the other associated parties
we find IN the Popuiist national platform
| adopted at Sioux Falls, S. D., May 10, 1900.
| the following declaration:
| I'VE pledge anew the Peoples party new
| er to cease the agitation until this financial
| conspiracy is blotted from the statute book,
| the Lincoln greenback restored, the bonds
all paid and all corporation money forever
retired. We reafirm the demand for the re-
opening Of the mints of the United States
| for the free and unlimited coinage of silver
and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 10
| 1, the immediate increase in the volume of
silver coins and certificates thus created to
| be substituted, dollar for dollar for the
| bank notes issued by private corporations
| under special privilege. granted by law of
March IA, 1900. and prior national banking
| laws"
| Declare Their Hostility.
The platform Of the silver party adopted
at Kansas City, July g. 1900. makes the fol-
lowing announcement:
I'VE declare it to be our intention to lend
| cur efforts to the repeal of this currency
| law, which not only repudiates the ancient
| and time-honored principles Of the Ameri-
| can people before the Constitution was
adopted, but is violative of the principles Of
| the Constitution itself; and shall not
cease our efforts until there has been estab-
| llshed In Its place a monetary system based
| upon the free and unlimited coinage Of silver
| and gold 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 govern
| ment, and all such money coined or issued
shall be a full legal tender in payment of
all debts, public and private, without excep-
| tion."
| Combine Against Gold.
In all three platforms these parties an
| nounce that their efforts shall be uncea sing
| until the gold act shall be- blotted from the
| statute books and the free and unlimited
| coinage of silver at 16 TO 1. shall take Its
place.
The relative Importance Of the issues do
| not stop to discuss. ALI of them are Inn
portant Whichever party is successful will
| be bound In conscience to carry into admin
| istratlon and legislation Its several declara-
| tions and doctrines One declaration will be
as obligatory as another, but all are not i'm
mediate.
| 1t Is not possible that these parties would
| treat the doctrine of 16 to 1, the immediate
| realization Of which is demanded by their
several platforms, void and imperative
in the event that they should be clothed
| with power. Otherwise their profession Of
iai'h Is lhslneere. II IS therefore 'he iih-
| pe'a'ise business IA lnose opposeu " this
hnaheiai heiesS W pte'eh' 'ne 'iiuAApn Va
the parties whose union ~ ohiy aSsureu os
adherence to the silver Issue.
Facing Grave Peril,
VIII the American people, through indif-
ference or fancieda security, hazard the over
throw of the wise financial leefsla tion of the
last year and revive the danger of the silver
standard, with all of the Inevitable evils of
shattered confidence and general disaster
which justly alarmed and aroused them in
1896?
The Chicago platform of 1896 Is reafnrmed
| in its entirety by the Kansas CITY conyeu-
| ton. Nothing has been omitted or recalled.
| so that all the perils then Threatened are
| presented anew with the added force Of a
| deliberate reaf1irmation Four years ,eo
/ the peopie refused to place the seal of their
| approval upon these dangerous and reyolu-
/ tionary policies. and this wear they will not
| fail to record again their earnest dissent.
| Fa;.hfr, +o p,.a,ea
| MI,
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| - p,neipie =. eaiih /" hich eupphes SUI
. 'ehues ior lhe- soteinineh' anu aue
sua'e ',on 70 oul ehteipiises anu pr
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M. M w 'ne SUI p'us u q ~ nis
| s.ntN,4 pi,ne-e'es p' % .n..' n
anu ,eeipioe'' were tue nisl pieuses VI
| puoicah siclory 10 pe written INTO puoiic
| 1he present Congress mas given TO Aiaska
territorial government Tor which 1t hao
waited more .nah quarter Oh century
mas estaonsneo representative government
IN IN a"ai' na" ehae.eu oiiis ior Tue uios'
liberal treatment OF the pensioners anu their
| WIDOWS; mas revived tine free homestead
policy.
In Its great financial law 1t provided for
tne establishment OF oanks OF issue with
capita' OF Szo'ooo ior the oenent OF villages
a"u 'u'a eoninaun,tes, ofinsins TUE oppoi-
r-,,hin ~ raaot - r,oaarata o.,;t,, ,1or
| o-o aIraaav sna,,,nr .han,saIras - th,. nr,r
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| Some corv;rc;n E;,,-.