Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-11-29
DOLLARS OF THE DADS.
The Silver Convention Ends
Its Deliberations.
THE GOOD WORK ONLY BEGUN.
National and State Organizations
to be Observation-Disclosures
Orat0ry.


yer Convention this morning, q resolu
tion was offered by Fitch, of Nevada
providing for the appointment of Ma
tional Silver Committee, which ehoult
be empowered to call another Nationa
Silver Convention and provide for tn,
election of delegates thereto; also, tha
said National Silver Committee be EN-
powered to provide for the organization
OF State and National Silver Leagues, fol
the promotion of the objects of this con
vention. Adopted.
The following were appointed as com
mittee: Alabama, Alonzo Irwin, Selma
Arkansas, John G. Fletcher, Little Rock
Arizona, w. J. Cheyney, Tombstone
California, James McSudden, Vallejo
District of Columbia, Lee Crandsll.
Washington; Illinois, w. Z. Phelps,
Elmwood; Indians, Thomas III. Nelson.
Terra Haute; Kansas, w. M. Fortescue,
Leavenworth; Kentucky, Yoder Poig-
nard, Taylorsville; Missouri, Colonel
John Doniphan, st. Joseph; Michigan,
Hon. Ben Colvin, st. Charles; Mon.
tans, Charles F. Musigbrod, Deer Lodge
Nebraska, Allen Root, Omaha; Nevada,
Hon. Thomas Fitch, Reno; Mexico,
Hon. Samuel Baldwin, Santa Fe; Ohio,
James Kilburn, Columbus; Pennsylva-
mia, John A. Crier, Philadelphia; Texas,
Charles Longuenare, FL Paso; Tennes-
see, Andrew J. Keller, Memphis; Vir-
ginia, John l.. Cochran, Charlottesville /;
Utah, VIM. f. James, Salt Lake; Wyc-
ming, M. N. Grant, Laramie; Iowa,
III IN. T.. NJ. Weller, Nashua.
REPORT OF THE RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE.
Congressman Bland, Chairman of the
Committee On Resolutions, presented the
following report: The National Silver
Convention held in St. Louis, Mo-,
November 26, 27 and %, 1889, adopted
this preamble and resolution as their de-
liberate opinions:
That the decentralization OF silver has
worked the practical violation OF every
contract then existing in the United
States; entailed uncounted losses; re.
duced prices more than thirty 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 OF currency
which reduces the values until there is
no profit left to the farmers or rnen of
small capital, who depend upon tho sale
Of their products for returns for their
labor.
That we believe the certificate of the
Government, backed dollar for dollar by
gold and silver coin on deposit in the
Treasury of the United States, is safe
and sound currency and has been ap-
proved 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 necess-
ity of restoring silver is as manifest as is
the justice of such policy.
That the gold and silver of the West,
pouring in a steady stream upon the East
for forty years, vitslized every form of
business there, and steadied and upheld
the credit OF the Nation through the great
war and made resumption possible, and
thet what We now demand is as much
more to the interest Of the East than of
the West, as the productions of the East
are 20 the West.
That we believe in the equal rights of
gold and silver, and free coinage for
both, and that no nation ever had or
will have too much gold and silver coin.
Now, therefore, be it
Resolced, That the Fifty.frst Congress
be requested by this convention to pro-
vide at it's first session for the opening of
the mints Of the United States to the
free and unlimited coinage of standard
silver dollars Of the present weight and
fnepess, to be legal tender for all debts.
public and private, equal with gold, and
shat until such provision is made the
Secretary of the Treasury be required to
coin the maximum 81 GOO, 900 worth of
silver per month as now authorized by
Law.
THE REPORT ADOPTED.
Mr.. Bland announced that the gentle
man from Iowa, Mr.. Weller, desired his
report to be printed as part OF the pro.
eeedings of the convention, and that he
would offer no further opposition to the
adoption OF the majority report. He did
this in the interest Of harmony. The
report of the Committee on Resolutions
was then adopted by vote of 135 to z.
A resolution offered by General Gin
ter, of Missouri, favoring an Intsrna.
tional Silver Congress duringthe Worlds
Fair was tabled.
Resolutions we're adopted thanking the
people of st. Louis for courtesies ex-
tended and the committees for attentions
shown.
A resolution thanking the Associated
Press for the able manner in which the
work of the convention had been pre-
sented to the people of the United
States was unanimously adopted.
SPEECH BY THE SILVER TONGUED.
Fitch, of Nevada, was by special re-
quest called to the platform, and de-
liyeIed a long address, which was one of
the best delivered before the convention,
having in it good deal of fun and
humorous hits as we'll as argument.
Fitch, in an exhaustive review of the
labor difficulties, laid all of the blame
for the poverty-stricken condition Of the
working classes at the door of the capi-
talists who demonetized silver. "For
twenty years." said he, 1--WE have had
an abundant prosperity, but at the end Of
il we find wealth centered in a few
hands. What has the laborer to show
for the twenty years? He can boast that
the aggregate wealth of the nation
ia largely increased, OF factories
established, cities erected rivers bridged,
transeontinental highways reaching from
ocean to ocean. He can call the roll OF
millionaires and thousands will respond,
where before the war there were less
than five hundred. He can wipe the
sweat from bis face and reflect that
among the 5000 millionaires may DO