The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-05-07
4 CALL BY the SILVER MEN.
The Friends Of Bimetallism Warned
That the Time to Strike Has Come.

The Friends Of Bimetal1ism Warned
That tho Time to Strike Has Come.
The following eloquent call to
deliberation and action was-issued
by the national silver committee on
April 23d, last. It will be found
both instructive and encouraging to
the friends of the conte1nned white
metal:
"The national silver committee
appointed by the first national sill
yer convention at st. Louis in
November, 1889, believing an exi-
gency has arisen which calls for
earnest deliberation and united ac-
ton on the part of the friends of
bimetallism throughout the United
States, hereby calls convention at
Washington, D. c., May 26 and q,
1892, one OF the objects being to
organize a national bimetallic asso-
citation or league for the better pro-
motion Of the cause of free bimet-
allie coinage in the United States.
This action is impelled by the
manifest determination of the gold
combination to suppress the silver
issue for another decade, If possible,
by transmitting the existing debts
into gold obligations and otherwise
forcing forever single gold stand
ard upon the people of the United
States, and thus perpetuate the
subtle system of robbery carried on
for the past twenty years by means
of the money standard constantly
increasing in value.
"His understanding must be de-
fective who does not know that
decentralization. Of silver has in
creased the money standard of the
United States and the world, and
his conscience must be scared who
would attempt to justify it. But
the increase still goes on, and will
go on as gold grows scarce and dear,
until the bimetallic standard estab-
lished a hundred years ago by
Washington, Hamilton and Jeffer-
son is restored. AS the money
standard is raised prices fall and
debts are increased. The wit of
man could not devise a scheme bet
ter 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 millions of dollars annually in
wealth created by one class has
been stealthily appropriated by an
other. For twenty years this has
been going on, and yet Congress,
pledged to right wrong, hesitates
and pauses as if hypnotized by the
wand of gold.
"The people want no '70-cent dol
lars neither will they forever toler-
ate under the hypocritical pretense
of honest money the dollar that
has grown to be a 150-cent dollar
and is still growing at an augmented
rate. There may be those who are
tired of the silver question, but the
consequences of gold monometal-
lism are too threatening to permit
the cause of silver to be smothered,
and to abandon it is to give over to
ultimate slavery the toilers of the
land. No, the silver question will
not down. The issue is paramount
to all others. Although necessarily
a political question in the sense
that the remedy must be. by political
action, the question of free bimet-
allie coinage is not a partisan
question, and the convention is not
called for any partisan purpose, but
to urge on all parties the justice
and necessity of action on the ques-
ton 80 vital to the public welfare.
1.-The gold monometallists are
united, active and watchful, as
recent events have shown. They
have unlimited means at their
command. They control the met
ropolitan press; they intimidate
political leaders; they dominate
conventions and dictate platforms
and candidates, but the people will
not be enslaved, nor will they sub
NIT forever to the robbery of an
increasing gold standard. The sill
yer committee in this crisis calls
upon people everywhere to come
forward and send delegates to the
conventions. The call is extended
to all who earnestly favor the imme-
diate restoration of true bimetallic
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. The
Farmers Alliance organization,
State Oranges, Patrons of Husband
ry, Knights of Labor and all other
organizations favorable to the free
coinage of silver, are also invited
to send one delegate for each local
organization.
"A cordial invitation is also ex-
tended to all citizens who, by pen
or otherwise, are advocates Of BIZ
metalism. Members Of Congress