Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-04-26
BIMETAL CONVENTION.
The Silver Committee Issue An
Address to The People.
A Call for a Convention in Washington
May 90, 27-Congressionai Dis
tricts, States and Territories
Requested to Send Del
egates.

| mas issued tne 1Oll0Wlng call QateC
Washington April 2G, which is sem
out to the press for publication:
"The National Silver Committee
appointed by the first national silver
convention held at st. Louis, Nov.
ember, 1889, believing that the exi.
gency has arrived which calls for de.
liberation and united action on the
part of the friends of b mptalism
throughout the United States, hereby
calls convention TO be known as
the national silver convention, to be
held at Washington, ID. c., May q
and q, 1892, one of the objects being
to organize a national bi-metallic as.
sociatiOn, or League Of the free BIZ
metallic men.
"The action is impelled by the
manifest determination ON the part
of the gold combination to suppress
the silver issue fOl at least another
decade, and, if possible, by trans
muting existing debts into gold obi
cations and otherwise to fasten for
ever the single gold standard upon
the people of the United States and
thus perpetuate the subtle. system
of robbery that has been carried on
for the past twenty years, by means
of money standard that is constant
Iy increasing in value.
"But this increase will still go on,
as gold grows scarce and dear, until
the bi-metallic standard established a
hundred years ago, by Washington,
Hamilton and Jefferson, is restored
and gold relieved of the strain of be.
ing the only money of final redemp-
ton for other forms of money and OF
credit. AS the money standard is
iaised prices fall and debts are in
creased. The one is the counterpart
of the other, and the whole is the
work of legislation. The wit of man
could not devise a scheme better cal
culated to enrich, one class at the ex-
pense of another than by the devils
ing of an increasing money standard,
and under the operation of this
device since 1873 hundreds of mill
ions of dollars annually of the
wealth created by one class have
been stealthily appropriated by an
other. For twenty years this has
been going on, and yet Congress
pledged to the people to remedy the
wrong hesitates and pauses as if
hypnotized by the wand of gold
"The people want no 0cent dol
lars (; will they forever tolerate un-
der the hypocritical pretense of
"honest money" a dollar that has
grown to 150-cent dollar?
"The gold mono-metalis's are
united, active and watchful, as recent
events have shown. They have un-
limited means at their command ;
they control the metropolitan press ;
they intimidate political leaders,
dominate conventions and dictate
platforms and candidates. But the
people will not be enslaved, nor will
they submit forever to the robbery OF
an increasing gold standard. The
silver committee, in this crisis, calls
upon the people everywhere to come
forward and send delegates to this
convention. The call is extended to
all who earnestly favor the immedi-
ate restoration of free bi.metalliC
coinage in the United States, and
each Congressional district is re-
quested to send two delegates and
each State and territory to send two
additional delegates at large. Farm.
ers' Alliance organizations, State
Oranges, Patrons of Husbandry
Knights of Labor and all other in
dustrisl organizations favorable &c
the free coinage OF silver are also in
vited to send one delegate for each
local organization"