Show THE SILVER PARTY organized Organ izad at washington jan 1896 resolutions as introduced and adopt d in full as follows the paramount issue at this time in the enned states 13 indisputably the money question it is between the gold standard gold bonds and bank currency on the one eide and the bimetallic aan landard dard no bonds and government currency on the other on the issue we declare ourselves to bo in favor of a distinctive american fi ancial system we are unalterably opposed to the single gold standard and demana the immediate return to the constitutional standard ol 01 gold nd silver by the restoration by this government independently of any foreign power of the unrestricted coinage of gold and dilver into standard money at the ratio of 16 to 1 and terms of exact equality as they existed prior to 1873 the silver coin to be a full legal tender equal with for all debts and dues public and private we bold eliat the power to control and regulate regula tn a par curr currency ercy is inseparable from the power to coin conry and hence that all currency intended to circulate aa money should be issued and its volume controlled by the general government only and should be legal tender we are unalterably opposed to the issue by the united stales of bearing bonds in time of peace and denounce as a blunder alian a crime the treasury policy concurred in by a republican house 0 plunging the country in debt by hundreds 0 millions in the vain attempt to maintain the gold standard by borrowing gold and w e demand the payment of all coin obligations of the united states as provided by existing laws in either gold or silver boin at the option of the government and not at the option of the creditor whereas the of silver in 1873 enormously increased the demand for gold enhancing its purchasing power and lowering all prices measured by that standard and whereas since that unjust indefensible ACT the prices of american products have fallen upon a average nearly 50 per cent carrying down with them proportionately the money value of all other forms of property except in peculiarly favored localities and whereas such fall of prices has destroyed the profits of legitimate industry injuring the producer for the benefit of tha non producer increasing the burden of the debtor and swelling the gains of the creditor paralyzing the productive energies of the american people relegating to idleness numbers of willing workers bending the shadow of despair into tho home of the honest toiler lalling the land with tramps and pau pera and building up colossal fortunes at the money center and whereas in th e effort to maintain the gold standard the country has within the last eighteen months in a time of profound peace and plenty been loaded down with of additional interest bearing debt under such circumstances cum stances as to allow a syndicate of native and foreign bankers to realize a net profit of on a binale deal and whereas another call ia pending for a further gold loan of which but for an outburst of popular indignation would also have been negotiated in the same secret manner and burough the same syndicate and whereas it stands confessed that the gold can only be upheld by so OCH CURRENCY as to force the prices of our products below the european and even below the asiatic level in order that wo may sell in foreign markets thus aggravating the very evils of which our people so bitterly complain degrading american labor and striking at the very foundations of our civilization itself and whereas the advocates of tho gold standard persistently claim that tho real cause of our distress is over production that we have produced so much that it has made us poor which implies that the true remedy is to celoso the factories abandon the farms and throw a multitude 0 people out of employment a doctrine that leaves ua absolutely without hope for th future and whereas the difference of exchange between silver standard countries and gold countries is equivalent to a bosoty equal to the difference between the value of gold and silver in favor of the products of silver standard coin trie exported to gold standard countries and a corresponding tariff against the product of gold standard countries exported to silver using countries and whereas the cost of production otherwise in alie old world and in china ami japan ia far less than the cost at which similar products can bo produced or manufactured in this country by american labor without reducing our farmers miners mechanics manufacturers and other industrial workers to the LEVEL of CHINESE COOLIES that over and above all other questions of policy we are in favor of restoring to the people of the united states the time honored money of the constitution gold and not one but both the money of washington and hamilton jefferson and monroe and jackson and lincoln to tho end that the american people may receive their honest pay for honest product the american debtor may pay his just obligations in an honest standard and not in a standard that is appreciated per cent above the great staples of our country and to the end further eliat the silver standard countries may be deprived of tho unnatural advantage they naw enjoy in the difference in exchange bf tween gold and silver an advantage which tariff legislation alone cannot overcome we therefore confidently appeal to the people of the united leaving in abeyance for a moment all other questions however important or even they may appear and sundering if need be all party affiliations they unite in a supreme effort to free themselves and their children from the domination of tho money power a power more destructive than any which haa ever been fastened upon civilized men of any race or in any ae and upon the consummation of their desires and efforts we invoke the gracious favor of divine providence we have made another sweeping reduction in our boys suits at equitable coop A job lot of corsets in sizes from 24 to 30 for exactly half the regular prices t equitable coop we have the best shoes in own for ladies at equitable coop thera is a superstition that jersey milk is too rich for young calves id may bo for beef calves but it cannot bo for dairy jersey c ives to suppose blat it is 13 ono of the regulation of tho illinois board of health id that dairy cowa shall ho cleaned every adny to make something out of sor ething milk cr somo kind ct freight said the president of a railroad recently iha road was one that did an immense milk shipping trade to a large city tho interstate commission did well at last to tako in hand the mill shipping business tho dairy farmers have suffered at tho hands of tho railroad companies tho oads have watered their stock to tho last point of inflation fla tion in order to get dividends on the inflated stock they put up rates to the highest notch at the samo time to get all tho freight they can certain roads have adopted the practice of hauling milk a hundred miles for exactly the same price for which they haul it 50 milea or even less theae things have been brought out plainly we have to make something on some kind cf freight say the companies on the companies part they have to do this because of the watered stock and the load of debt tinder which all of them stagger to tha farmer it is left open to kick and kick hard cud keep at it till relied cornea from either the interstate commission or bome other source they who determine to holp themselves always sucked tho peculiar excellence of swiss chelso and butter is said to boroo from tho pas of the swiss mounta iua they are covered with snow the winter underneath tho snow meantime grows a particularly sweet tender for pasturage As soon as abo snow melts about may tho cows aie driven up to the mountain sides where they stay till snow comes again with tho grass are mixed certain other small and tender plants making a delicious herbage tor abo cattle it is in tha summer that the bulk of the cheepo is made why cannot american borrow a bint from the swiss cannot scientific dairymen import from switzerland the seeds of their grass paa t wa blants |