The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-04-29
A National Silver Convention.

The national silver committee
has issued the following call for a
convention at Washington, ID. c.,
May 26 and 81:
The national committee, appointed by the
first national silver convention at ST. Louis
November, 1889, believing the eXigency has
arisen which calls for earnest deliberati0n and
united action on the part of the friends of BIZ
metallism throughout the United States, hereby
calls a convention at Washington, ID. C., May
26 and n, 1871, one of the objects being to or
guniZe a national bimetdllic association or
league for the better promotion of the cause
OF free bimetnllic coinage in the United
States. This action is impelled by the man
Hest determination of the gold combination
to suppress the silver issue for another decade
and If possible Dy transmitting existing debts
into gold obligations and otherwise fasten for
ever single gold standard upon the people Of
the United States, and thus perpetuute the sub
tie robbery carried on for the p,st twenty wears
by means of money standard constantly in
crensing in value His understanding must be
defective who does not know that demonetiZn-
ton OF silver will increase the value of gold
money in the United states and the world, and
his conscience must be scared who would nt-
tempt 70 justify II, but the increase still goes on
and will 90 on ms gold grows scurcer and dearer,
until the bimetallic standard established 100
years ago by Washington, Hamilton and Jefer-
son is restored ana the strain on gold relieved,
it being the only money available for final re-
denptiOn 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 work Of legislation
What man could devise scheme better calcu-
lated to enrich one class at the expense of
another than by device increasing the money
Standard and under the operation Of this device
since 1873 hundreds of millions of dollars am
nually of wealth created by one class has been
stealthily appropriated by another. For twenty
years this has been going on, and yet congress
pledged to the people to remedy the wrong hest
tates and pauses as II hypnOtzed by the wand
of gold.
The people want no 40 cent dollars" neither
will they forever tolerate under the hypucriti-
cal pretense, "huneSt money, a dollar grown 10
be $50 cent dollar and still growing at an aug
lnented rate. There are those who have tired Of
the silver question, but the consequences OF
gold recommendation is too threatening To per-
nit the cause of silver TO be smOthered. To
abandon 1t is to give the order of ultimate
slavery to 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 no sense, the remedy must be By
political action. The question OF free bimetnllie
coinage Is not a partisan question, and the con-
yention is not called for any partisan purpose,
but urges on all parties the justice and neees-
sity of action on a question so vital TO the pub
lie welfare.
The gold mOnOmetallists are united, active
and watehful, as recent events have shown.
they control the metropolitan press, intimidate
political leaders, dominate conventions and die
tate platforms and candidates. But the people
will not be enslaved, nor will they submit for
ever 10 the robbery OF the increasing gold
standard. The silver committee in this crisis
calls upon the people everywhere to come for
ward and send delegates to the convention.