The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1892-04-30
Call for a National Convention to be
Held in Washington.
AN ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE
Necessity of Prompt Legislation in
Favor of Free Bi.Metallic Coinage
The Scheme Of the Gold Bugs.

Washington, April 23.-The ma
tional silver committee today issued
the following call: "The national
silver committee appointed by the
first national silver convention at
St. Louis, Nov. 10, 1889, believes
an exigency has arisen which calls
for earnest deliberation and united
action on the part of the friends of
bi.metallism throughout the United
States, and hereby calls conven-
to be held at Washington May 26
and 81. 1892, one of the objects
being to organize national BIZ
metallic association or league for
the better promotion of the cause
of free bi-metallic coinage in the
United States. This action is i'm
PEELED by a manifest determination
of gold combination to suppress
the silver issue for another decade,
and, if possible by transmitting
existing debts into gold obligations
and otherwise fasten forever a sim
gle gold standard upon the people
of the United States, and thus per-
petuate the subtle system of rob-
berry which has been carried on for
the past twenty years, by means of
the money standard constantly
increasing in value. His under
standing must be defective who
does not know that the demonetiza-
ton of silver has increased the
money standard of. the United
States and the world, and his con-
science must be scared who would
attempt to justify it-but the in
crease still goes on and will 60 on
as gold grows scarce and dear,
until the bi-metallic standard
established 100 years ago by Wash
ington, Hamilton and Jefferson is
restored and gold relieved of the
strain of being the only money for
the final redemption of other forms
of money and credit AS the
money standard is raised, prices
fall and debts increase; one the
counterpart of the other and the
whole, work of legislation. Wit
man could not devise scheme
better calculated to enrich one
class at the expense of the other
than the device of increasing the
money standard, and under the
operation of this device since 1878
hundreds of millions of dollars
annually of the wealth created by
one class were stealthily appropri
ated by another. For 20 years
this has been going on and yet con
gress, pledged to the people to rem
edy this wrong, hesitates and
pauses as if hypnotized by want
of gold. The people want no 20
cent dollars, neither will they for
ever or tolerate under hypocritica
honest money, a dollar that ha
grown to be 15O-cent dollar ant
is still growing at an augmented
rate. There may be those who ar,
tired of the silver question, but tn
consequences of gold monometal
lism is too threatening to permi
the cause of silver to DO smothered
and to abandon it is to give over t,
ultimate slavery the toilers Of tn
land.
"No, the silver question will no
60 down. tits an issue paramount
to all others. Although necessarily
political question in sense, tn
remedy must be by political action
The question Of free bi.metalli,
coinage is not partisan questio,
rnd the convention is not called 70
any partisan purpose, but to urg,
on all parties the Justice and neces