Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1889 — WANT SILVER REMONETIZED. [ARTICLE]

WANT SILVER REMONETIZED.

Resolutions Adopted by the Silver Convention at St. Louis. The Silver Convention, in session at St Louis, adopted the following resolutions Thursday: That the demonetization of silver has worked a practical violation of every contract then existing in the United States, entailed uncounted losses, reduced prices more than 30 per cent., and its effect is practically to make debts perpetual, as it takes from the debtor the ability to pay; that it causes contraction in the currency, which reduces the value until there is no profit left to the farmer, planter or men of small capital, who depend upon the sale of products for returns for their labor, j That we believe the certificate of rise \ government, backed dollar for dollar by gold and silver coin, on the product in the treasury of the United States, is a safe and sound currency, and has been approved by the people. That, considering the contraction caused by the surrender of national bank notes during the past three years, and the vast | sums that must be collected by the cancellation of government bonds during the next three years, the necessity of restoring silver is as manifest as the justice of such a policy. I That the gold and silver of the West, pouring in a steady stream upon the East for forty years, vitalized every firm of ' business there and steadied and upheld I the credit of the N ation through the great war, and made resumption possible, and that what we now demand is as much more to the “Interest of the East than of the West, as the productions of the East exceed in value the productions of the West. That we believe in equal rights of gold and silver, and free coinage for both, and that no nation ever had or ever will have too much gold and silver coins. Now, therefore, be it Resolved, That the Fifty-first Congress be requested by the convention to provide, at its first session, for opening the mints of the United States to the free ana unlimited coinage of standard silver dollanof the present weight and fitness, to be legal tender for all debts, public or private, equal with gold, and that until such a pro vision is made the Secretary of tho Trees ury be required to coin the maximum, $4,uU0,0()0 worth of silver per month, as authorized by law. The Penalties of a “Little Lord z. Asbur, Park Jou naL Mamma —Now, remember, Bertram, you mustn’t run to hard, or you’ll perspire and spoil your Fauntieroy, -sash or mamma will have to whip -you. Bertie— No, dearest Mamma —Above all things, remember. under no circumstances take your | hat off, because your Fauntleroy curls are sewed in the brim." —-—/ -