Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1896 — SOUND TO THE CORE. [ARTICLE]

SOUND TO THE CORE.

FINANCIAL PLANK OF NATIONAL REPUBLICAN , , ’ CONVENTION. The Republican party is unreservedly for sound money. It caused the enactment of the law providing for the resumption of specie payments in 1880; since then every dollar has been as good as gold. We are unalterably opposed to every measure calculated to debase our currency, or impair the credit of our country. We are, therefore, opposed to the free coinage of silver except by international agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, jvhich we pledge ourselves to promote, and until such agreement can be obtained, the existing gold standard must be preserved. All our silver and paper currency now in circulation must be maintained at a parity with gold, and we favor all measures designed to maintain inviolably the obligations of the United States and all “our money, whether- coin or paper, at the present standard, the standard of the most enlightened nations of the earth.