The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-11-29
FRIENDS OF SILVER.
; Close of the Convention at St.
Louis Yesterday.
TOM FITCH's BRILLIANT SPEECH
In Favor of the RECOMMENDATION of Silver-Ac-
Gusations Against Wall Street-England
as Bunco Steerer.

offered by Fitch, of Nevada, providing for
the appointment of committee which
should be empowered to call another ma
tional silver convention and provide for
the election of delegates thereto. be
also said the national silver committee
should be empowered to provide for the
organization of national silver league for
the promotion of the objects of this conVen-
ton. Adopted. The following were APP
pointed as such Committee:
Alabama, Alonzo Irwin, Salina; Arkansas,
John G. Fletcher, Little Rock; Arizona, w: j.
Cheyney, Tombstone; California, James Nc
Sudden, Vallejo; District of Columbia, Lee
Crandail, Washington; Illinois, W. e. Phelps,
Elmwood; Indiana, Thomas II. Nelson, Terre
Haute; Kansas, W. NJ. Fortescue, Leaven-
worth; Kentucky, Yoder Poignard, Taylors-
vile; Missouri, Colonel John Doniphan, st.
Joseph; Michigan, Hon. Ben ColVln, ST.
Charles; Montana, Charles F. Musigbrod, Deer
Lodge; Nebraska, Allen Root, Omaha; Nevada,
Hon Thomas Fitch, Reno; New Mexico, Samuel
Baldwin, Santa Fe; Ohio, James kllburn, Col
'umbus; Texas, Charles Longuenar, 81 Paso;
Tennessee, Andrew j. Keller, Memphis; Vtr-
ginia, John l.. Cochrane, CharlotteSVlie' Juan
Hon. William f. James, Salt Lake; wyoming,
NJ NJ. Grant, Laramie: Iowa, Hon. l.. w. VII
Ter, Nashua.
A resolution adopted by the Montana
house of representatives urging the con-
vention to adopt views favorlng the I'M
limited coinage of silver and to lend their
y
10 that end in Congress, was read.
Bland chairman of the committee on
resolutions, presented the following report:
The National Silver convention, held in st.
Louis Mo, November 26, u and 2S, 1889, adopts
this preamble and resolution as their deliberate
opinion:
That the decentralization of silver has worked
a practical violation OF every contract then eX-
lSting in the United States, entalled unwUnted
losses reduced prices more that 81 per cent, ana
It's effect is practically to make debts perpetual,
IS it is the taking from the debtor the ability
@ pay that causes a contraction in the currency
which reduces values until there IS no prOnt lett
10 farmers, planters or men OF small capltal
who depend upon the sale OF their products Tor
returns of their labor. That we believe That the
certificate of the government backed dollar ior
dollar by the gold and silver coin ON deposit in
the treasury of the United States is safe and
sound currency and has been approved by Inc
people; uhat considering the contraction caused
by the surrender of national bank notes during
the last three years and the vast surplus
that must be collected by canceulnP
government bonds during the next thee years,
as the recent years, the necessity of restoring
silver is as manifest as Is the justice OF SuCh u
policy; that the gold and silver OF the west pour
ing in q steady stream upon the east lor forty
years VitaliZed every form OF business there ana
Steadied and upheld the credit of the nation
through a great war and made the resumption
OF specie possible, and that what we now de-
ruand 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 the equal rights of gold and
silver ana free coinage for both, and that no ma
ton ever had or will have too much gold and
silver coin.
Now, therefore, be it resolved that the Fifty
erst Congress be requested by this convention
TO provide ut its first session for the opening OF
the mints for the free unlimited coinage Of
standard silver dollars OF the present weight
ana fineness to be legal tender for all debts,
public or private, equal with gold, and that
until such provision is made the secretary of
the treasury be required to coin the maximum
100000 worth Of silver per month as now
authorized by law.
Mr.. Bland announced that the gentle
man from Iowa, Mr.. Weller, desired that
his report be printed as part of the pro
ceedings of the convention and that ne
would offer no further opposition to the
adopton of the majority report. He did this
in the interest of harmony.
The report of the committee on resolu-
lions was then adopted by vote os l35 to
~. a resolution offered by General Min
Ter. of Missouri, favoring an international
silver congress during the worlds fair
was tabled.
Resolutions were adopted thanking the
neoDle of St Louis for the courtesies eX-
tended, and the committees for the atteH-
tons shown. A resolution thanking the
Associated Press for the able manner in
which the work of the convention had been
presented to the people of the United
States was unanimously adopted. Fitch,
of Nevada, was By special request called to
the platform and delivered long address.
Fitch in an exhaustive review of the labor diff
arultes laid all OF the blame for the poverty and
stricken condition OF the working classes at the
door of the capitalists who demonetized silver.
tsEror twenty years." said he, we have had
abnutisnt prosperity, but al the end of it we find
mat wealth has centred in a few hands. What
has the laborer to show for his twenty years
roiIg He can boast of the aggregate wealth OF the
-afion largely increased OF factories established
md cities erected, OF rivers bridged, of trans
continental highways reaching from ocean 10
ocean He can call the roll Of the milionaires
md thousands will respond where before the
var was less than five hundred could He can wipe
the sweat from his weary face and reflect that
among the 600 millionaires may be enumerated
+ba names OF twenty Americans who have
Tatbered 81 500 100000 from the toll and tears OF
IN 000 900 OF people. He can walk weary and
5hclterless in the shaoo" OF the palace he has
nniIt but he may not enter. L seek not Il
oSsai1 the rights of capitalists or arouse against
hem the prejudices of poverty or unthrift, but
FOR twenty years capital has tempered with
Tho neople's money and gathered 10 itself illicit
s,airs by increasing the burdens Of industry
E 5i1yer is the fight Of debtocs again s.
'!.nfitors OF labor against capitalists Of
49, against rich. 1t Is idle for the monometal
yot to tell US that prices have been reduced be
c.use of increased production in India. This
I may be an approximate case but say
decentralization alone. England has become to
~ fine greatest silver consumer in the world
and vet in all her vast empire she produces les.
80 ner cent. OF the worlds supply: and Ger
moTy co-conspirator in the work OF demo~eti
%atinn. produces less than 3 per cent Eng
land is the bunco steerer OF the worit
I'd Uncle Sam is the gentleman
> -alC tho rural districts. How much longe
,riII o1r miners, planters and farmers consen
.hat The Senators and Representatives at Wash
;noton shall continue to legislate in the interes
nf"Wall street? Is it not time for the American
a,Ia IN rise an shake the Liverpool salt iron
{tstail: [Grcat applause 1t may be that tn
Sudden reconciliation OF SILVER would produc
some slight temporary disturbance in Wa
t-oet mi the eastern and western boundarie
of mis- nation are not found between Peal
street and Broadway. We are here TO represen
the cottages and cabins OF this country, an
their interest should be protected though tn
bulls OF Wall streets bucket shops below wit
rage"
The convention then took recess till
o'clock.
At the afternoon session the chairma
announced ten additional names on tn
committee at large appointed by the chat
as follows:
New York. Edward Pierrepont; Illinois, E.
Stevenson; Kentucky, j. MCKENZIE; Mort
Carolina Alfred L. Scales; Georgia, Hammond
Missouri, L. N. Rumsey: Colorado, ]. d. Egar
Nevada, Francis G. Newland; California, f. N
Pixley; Kansas, j. w. Rdsk.
The chairman appointed the followin
committee to prepare a memorial addres
I to Congress: J. 1. Grier, Pennsylvania
NJ. ]. Field, Missouri; g. C. Goodwin
Utah: j. n. Porter, Virginia; and j. I
Scott, Ohio.
The convention then adjourned sine di,
The delegates were given banquet at til
Merchants exchange this evening.
Minister LincOlns Son Dying.
LONDON. Nov. 9s-United States Mini