Show auxer resolutions COMMITTEE alicy report the address ana at louis july 23 the committee on of the silver convention completed its work this afternoon by adopting alie platform and address to the peo apte which had been prepared by the aub committee she platform and ad dreue are as follows the rational silver party of america in convention assembled hereby adopts the following declaration of principles airet the issue at this time in the united states is bay the money question it is between the gold bonds and bank currency on ineide oneide on eide and the bimetallic standard band oo 00 bonds government currency aad an american policy on the other la this issue wo declare ourselves to be in favor of a distinctly american financial system we are unalterably opposed to the bi ogle standard and demand the immediate return to the original standard of gold and silver by the restoration by this government independent oi any foreign of tho unrestricted coi nafie of both gold and silver into standard money at the ratio of and upon terms of exact equality as they existed prior to 1873 tho silver coin to be of fall legal tender equally with gold tor all debts and due public and private and we demand such legislation lecis lation ae will prevent for the future the destruction of the legal tender quality of any kind 0 money by private contract we hold the power to control and regulate a paper currency is inseparable from the power to coin money and hence that all currency intended to circulate as money should be issued and its volume controlled by the general government only and should be legal tender we are unalterably opposed to the i j eSc fi ideue by united states of interest bear ing bonds in timy ot peace and we denounce sa a blunder worse the present treasury policy concurred in by a republican house of plunging the country into debt by hundreds of in thu vain attempt to main tain the gold standard by borrowing borrow inc gold and we demand the payment 0 all coin obligations tor the united states as provided by existing laws in either gold or silver coin at the option of the government and not at the option of the creditor the of silver in 1873 enormously increased the demand for kold enhanced its purchasing power and lowered all prices measured by that standard and since that unjust and in defensible act the prices of american product i have fallen upon an average of nearly 50 per cent carrying down with them proportionately the money value of all other forma of property such fall of prices has destroyed the profits of legitimate industry injuring tue producer for the benefit of the increasing the burden of the debtor swelling the gains of the credi tor paralyzing paralysing para lysing the productive energies of ahe american people relegating to idleness vast numbers cf willing work ere sending the shadows of despair into the home of the honest toiler filling the land with tramps and haupers paupers pau pers and building up colossal colo osal fortunes at the money centers in the effort to maintain the gold standard the country has within the last two years in a lime of pro found peace and plenty been loaded down with ot addi tiomi interest bearing debt under such circum atances aaa allow a syndicate of native and foreign bankers to realize a net profit of millions on a single dollar it stands confessed that the gold standard can only be upheld by so depleting our paper currency as to force the prices of our products below the european and even below the asiatic level to enable to sell in foreign markets thus aggravating the very evils of which our people so bitterly oitt erly complain degrading american labor and striking at the foundations of our civilization itself the question as to who should present the paper to the convention excited quite a discussion mr A J warner of ohio favored having some republican present it representative towne 4 minnesota mr of minnesota and senator jones of nevada were suggested and the latter was finally decided on it was decided to withhold alie platform and address from the convention until tonisha but the paper was meantime given to the press the question ol 01 naming a delegate to nominate bryan and was then taken ap after a brief it was decided not to have the chicago candidates nominated by an individual aa the of the committee recommended such a |