Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-04-28
ION NAY 26 AND q.
The Date Fixed For the National
Silver Convention.
TIE OFFICIAL CALL IN FULL.
1t is Signed BY A. j. Warner, Chairman,
and Lee Crandan, Secretary-An In
dustrfal Organizations Favorable
to Free silver Invited.

WASHINGTON. April 25.-The national
silver committee has issued the follow
| ing call:
The ntional silver committee appointed by
| the first national silver convention November
1889 at St Louis, believing that the exieency
has arisen which calls for earnest deliberation
ana united action the part of bimetallism
throughout the United States. hereby calls a
convention. to be known as the second national
| silver convention, to be held at Washington on
May 20 and e. one of the objects being to organ
lze national metallic association or league
| Tor the better promotion OF the cause of free
Dimetaliic coinage. This act ton is impelIed by
the manifest determination on the part of the
goio combination to suppress the silver issue
Tor at least another decade and If possible by
transmitting existing debts into gold obliga-
tlons and otherwise to fasten forever the single
gold standard upon the people and thus to per-
petuate the subtle system of robbery that has
Deen carried on for twenty years by means of a
money standard that is constantly increasing
in value.
His understanding must be defective who
does not know that the characterization of silver
increased the money standard of the United
states and OF the world, and his conscience
must be scared when he would attempt to iusti-
~ IT, But THIS increase still goes on, and will
go on as gold grows scarce and dear, until the
bimetallic standard established 100 years ago
by washington, Hamilton and Jefferson is re-
l1eVed OF the strain of being the only money of
hnal redemption for other forms OF money and
credit
AS the money standard is raised prices fan
and the debts increased The one is the
counterpart of the other, and the whole is the
work OF legislation.
The will of man could not devise scheme
better calculated to enrich one class at the ex-
penSe OF another than by the device of an in
creaslng money standard and under the opera
uon OF this device. since 1873, hundreds of mil
lions OF dollars annually of the wealth created
by one class have been stealthily appropriated
by another.
For twenty years this has been going on and
yet a congress pledged to the people % remedy
the wrong hesitateS and pauses as if hypnotized
by the wand of gold.
The people want no 80 cent dollars neither
will they forever tolerate under the hypocrit
zeal pretense of honest money a dollar that
has grown to be $50 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 mono
metallism are too threatening to7permit the
| cause of silver to be sInothered and to abandon
it is to give over to ultimate slavery the toilers
of the land
question paramount TO all others. Although ii
is necessarily political question in the sense
that the remedy must be political action
the question of rebimetallic coinage is not
partisan question and the convention is not
called for any partisan purpose but TO urge on
all parties the justice OF q question so vital to
the public welfare.
The old monometalists are active and united
and watchful, recent events have shown.
They have unlimited means at their command;
they control the metropolitan press: they in
timidate political leaders, dominate conventions
and dictate pla tformS and candidates. But the
people will not be enslaved nor will they submit
forever to the robbery OF increasing gold
standard
The silver committee in this crisis calls upon
the people to come forward and send delega ties
to this convention
The call is extended to all who earnestly
favor the immediate restoration OF free BIZ
metallic coinage in the United States and each
congressional district is requested to send two
additional delegates at large
Farmers Alliance organizations state
oranges, Patrons of Husbandry, knights of
Labor and all other industrial organizations
favorable to the free coinage of silver also
invited to send one delegate for each local Or
ganization
a cordial invitation is also EXTENDED to all
citizens who by pen otherwise have been adj
vocateS of bmetalliSm Members of congress
and of the legislatures of the several states
who favor the restoration of the bimetailic
standard and the coinage OF silver on the same
terms as gold are especially invited to attend
and participate in the proceedings of the con-
Vention.
BY order of the national silver committee.
a j. WARNER, Chairman
LEE CRANDALI., Secretary.
Washington, April D, 1892.
Another silver measure made its ap-
pearance in the house Saturday in the
shape of bill introduced by Mr.. Storer.
of Ohio, to provide for an international
ratio between gold and silver and TO
suspend the purchase of silver bullion
on July L, 1893 1t differs from previous
propositions in the same line by in
structing the president to negotiate
particularly with the states of the Latin
union on this subject and when a treaty
is concluded with the Latin union, with
or without the concurrence of other ma
tions, the ratio agreed upon is to go into
effect in the United States. 1t is pro-
vided that if no agreement is reached
by July 1, 1898, the operation of the
present law relative to the purchase of
silver bullion is to be suspended