492 THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



u Honest money," gold, silver and paper convertible 

 into coin on demand^' 



The first plank in the Missouri State platform that 

 year read: 



u We accept and indorse the principles embodied in 

 the platform adopted by the National Democratic party in 

 June, 1880." 



"In 1880 they will be compelled to fall in line with 

 us," said the New York Day Book, in 1878. And in 

 1880 they did fall in line and have never kicked since. 



In 1878 the Democrats of Arkansas declared in their 

 platform as follows: 



u ist. We are in favor of making United States treas- 

 ury notes a full legal tender for all dues where the terms 

 of the original debt or contract are not expressly to the 

 contrary, and that they shall be receivable for all duties 

 and interest on the public debt. 



U 2nd. The national bank notes should be retired, 

 their further issue prohibited, and United States treasury 

 notes substituted therefor. 



"3rd. The power to issue paper money and coin as a 

 legal tender is vested only in the national government, and 

 this power should be exercised from time to time so as to 

 accommodate the necessities of trade, labor, and the general 

 wants of the people of a growing country. 



1 ( 4th. We are opposed to any plan of funding the debt 

 of the country by which an unjust contraction of the cur- 

 rency, below the necessities of the whole people, can be 

 established, and which has not for its object the funding of 

 the debt at home." 



It was the last protest of Arkansas Democracy, in 

 State convention, against the infamous and damnable sys- 

 tem of national banks. It was their last expression of 



