People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1892-04-29
BIMETALISM.
A CALL FOR A CONVENTION OF THE
FRIENDS OF SILVER.
Steps 10 be Taken 10 Force the Coinage
Question 10 the Front in National
Politics,

"The National Silver committee ap-
pointed by the first national silver con-
YentiOn in November, 1889, at st. Louis,
believing that an exigency has arisen
which calls for earnest deliberatiOn
and united action on the part of the
friends of bimetalliSm throughout the
United States, hereby calls a cOnven-
tion, to be known as the second nation
al silver convention to be held in
Washington on May 26 and 27, 1892,
one of the objects being to organize a
national bimetallic association or
league for the better promotion of the
cause of free bimetallic coinage.
"ThiS action is impelled by the man.
ifeSt determination on the part of the
gold combination to suppress the sill
yer issue for at least another decade,
and, if possible, by transmitting the
existing debts into gold obligations,
and otherwise, to fasten forever the
single gold standard upon the people,
and thus perpetuate the subtle system
of robbery that has been carried on
for twenty years by means ofa money
standard that is constantly increasing
in value.
"HiS understanding must be defec-
tive wh6 does not know that the de-
mOnetizatiOn of silver has increased
the value of the money standard of the
United States and of the world, and
his conscience must be scared when he
would attempt to justify it. But this
increase sill goes on and will go on as
gold grows scarce and dear, until the
bimetallic standard established 1OO
years ago by Washington, Hamilton
and Jefferson is restored, and gold re-
ieved of the strain of being the only
money of final redemption for other
forms of money and credit. AS the
money standard is raised, prices fall
and debts are increased. One is the
counterpart of the other, and the whole
is the work of legislation.
"The will of man could not devise a
scheme better calculated to enrich one
class at the expense of another than by
the device of increasing the money
standard, and under the operation of
this device, since 1873, hundreds of mil
lions of dollars annually of the wealth
created by one class has been stealthily
appropriated by another. For twenty
years this has been going on and yet a
congress pledged to the people to rem
edy the wrong heSitates and pauseS as
if hypnOtized by the wand of gold.
"The people want no 20 cent dollars;
neither will they forever tolerate, under
the hypOcritical pretense of honest
money dollar that has grown to be
a l5O cent dollar, and is still growing
at an augmented rate. There may be
those who are tired of the silver ques-
ton, but the consequences of gold
monOmetalliSm are too threatening to
permit the cause of silver to be smoth-
cred. To abandon it is to give over to
ultimate slavery the toilerS of the land.
No, the silver question will not down;
it is an issue paramount to all others.
Although it is necessarily a political
question in the sense that the remedy
must be sought for by political action,
the question of bimetallic coinage is
not a partisan question and the con-
ventiOn is not called for any partisan
purpose, but to urge on all parties the
justice of question vital to the pub.
lie welfare. The gold mOnometallists
are active, united and watchful, as re.
cent events have shown; they con.
troll the metropolitan press; they in.
timidate 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 National Silver committee in
this crisis calls to the people to come
forward and send delegeteS to the con
vention. The call is extended to al
who earnestly favor the immediate res
toration of free bimetallic coinage il
the United States. Each congressional
district is requested to send two dele
gates, and each state and territory t.
send two additional delegateS-at-large
Farmers Alliance organizations, STATE
Oranges, Patrons of Husbandry
Knights of Labor, and all other in
duStrial organizations favorable to thu
free coinage of silver, are also invited
to send one delegate for each local or
tganization. A cordial invitation i!
also extended to all citizens, who BY
pen or otherwise, have been advocate,
Of bimetallism. Members of congress
and of the Legislatures of the severa
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