Omaha daily bee., 1892-04-24
CALLED TO CONSIDER SILVER
National Committee Issues an Invitation
to All Bimetallsts.
PLEA FOR DoUBlE-STANDARu MONEY
Congress said to lie "Hypnotized by tho
Wand of Gold"--A Question That
VIII Not Down-A Para
mount Issue.

WAsHINGToN, u. c., April %. The ma
tional silver committee today issued the tol-
lowing call:
The national silver committee appointed
by the first national silver convention No
vember, 1890, at st, Louis, believing the ex
egiency has arisen which calls for earnest
deliberation and united action on the part of
the friends of bimetalilsm throughout the
United States, hereby calls a convention to
be known Us tho second national silver con-
vention to be held at Washington May
20 and -, 1892, ono OF tho objects
being to organize national bimetal-
lie association or league for the bet
ter promotion of the cause of free
bimetallic coinage. This action is impelled
by the manifest determination on the part of
the gold combination to suppress the silver
issue Tor at least another decade and If possi-
BILE perpetuute tho System of robbery that
has been carried on for twenty years by
means of n 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, or his con
science must be scared when he would at
tempt to justify it.
Gold Growing scarccr.
But this still goes on and as gold grows
scarce and dear and will continue TO grow
scarcer and dcarGr until the bimetallic
standard is restored and gold relieved of the
strain of being the only money of final re-
demption for other forms OF money and
credit. As the money standard is raised,
prices fall ard dobts are increased. The ono
Is the counterpart of the other and the whole
is the work OF legislation
The will of man would not devise a scheme
better calculated to enrich one class ut tho
expense of another than an increasing money
standard, and under the operation OF tins
device since 1873 hundreds of millions of dol
lars annually OF the wealth created by one
class have been steathilv appropriated by
another For twenty years this has been
going on and yet a congress pledged to the
people to remedy the wrong hesitates ana
pauses as if hypnotized by the wand of gold.
The Question VIII Not Down.
The people want no 7O-cent dollar, neither
will they forever tolerate, under the hypo-
critical pretense of "honest money!" dollar
that has grown TO 159-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
metailism are threatening to permit the
cause of silver to be smothered and to give
over to ultimate slavery the toilers of tho
land. No, the silver question will not down
II is an issue paramount to all others
Although 1t Is necessarily political
question in the sense that the remedy must
tallic coinage is not a partisan question, and
the convention is not called for any partisan
purpose but to urge on all parties the justice
Of a question so vital TO the public welfare.
The gold monometalists are active and
united and watch all these events. They have
unlimited means at their hand. They control
the metropolitan press. They dominate con-
ventions aud dictate platforms aud candi-
dates. The people will not be cnsaved nor
will they submit forever to the robbery Of
| an increasing gold standard.
Everybody Invited.
The silver committee in this crisis calls
upon the people to look forward and send
| delegates to this convention.
! The call Is extended to all who earnestly
! favor the immediate restoration of bimetallic
| coinage in the United States, and each con-
| delegates and each state and territory two
| delegates at large. Farmers alliance organ
| izatlons, state oranges, Patrons of Hus-
| bandry, knights of Labor and all other in
| dustrlal organizations favorable to the free
| coinage of silver are also invited to send one
| delegate for each local organization.
| A cordial invitation is also extended to
I, all citizens who, by open speech or other
| wise, have been advocates OF bimetallism.
| Members of congress and legislatures Of the
| several states who favor the restoration OF
| the bimetallic standard and tho coinage of
| silver on the same terms as gold are espe
| caly invited to attend and participate in the
| proceedings of tho convention.
| The call is subscribed by A. J. Warner
chairman, and Kee Crandall, secretary of tn,
! national silver committee, and is dated Wash
| ington, April %,