Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1892-04-30
THE NATIONAL SILVER CONMIrTEE

1t Issues o Call for . National Convea.
ton at Washington, Nay 20 and q,
1899.
The following call has been issued.
The notice given-being just about
ono months SO brief that We fear
that it will be impossible to secure .
thoroughly representative body; and
this will inevitably damage the cause.
1t would have been better to have
called the convention to meet after
the conventions of both parties. Then,
the friends OF silver would have been
ia condition to move effectively =
much more so than they can before the
nominating conventions are held.
Here is the call:
The national silver committee sp.
pointed by FRS, National Silver con.
vention held at St. Louis, November,
1889, believing 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, hereby calls con-
vention at Washington, May rs aud
~, 1892, ono of the objects being to
organize . national bi-metallic ASSOC
citation or league for the better pro-
motion Of the cause of free bimetAllic
coinage in the United States. This
action is impelled by the manifest
determination Of the gold combination
to suppress tho silver issue for another
decade, and if possible by transmit
ting existing debts into gold obliga-
tions and otherwise fasten forever the
single gold standard on the people of
the United States, aud thus perpetuate
the subtle system of robbery carried
on for the past twenty years by means
of money standard constantly in.
ere asing in value. His understand ding
must be defective who does not know
the demonstration Of silver increased
the money standard Of the United
States and the world; and bis con-
science must be hard who would At.
tempt to justify it. But the increase
still goes on and will 20 on a. gold
grows scarce and dear, until tho b.
metallic standard established . hun
dred years ago by Washington,
Hamilton and Jefferson is restored
and gold relieved Of tho strain, being
the only money for final redemption
for other forms of money aud credit.
Al the money standard is raised.
prices fall and debts are increased.
One is the counterpart Of the other,
and the whole the work Of Legislation.
The art Of man could not devise >
scheme better calculated to enrich one
man at the expense OF another than
by increasing the money standard. and
under the operation of this device
since 1873, hundreds Of millions Of
dollars annually of tho wealth created
by one class are steal.hiIy approp
rated by another.
''For twenty years this has been 60
ing on, and yet Congress, pledged to
the people to remedy the wrong, hest.
tates and pauses as it hypnotized by
the wand Of gold. The people want
no 10 cent dollars neither will they
forever tolerate under tho hypocritical
pretense of honest money! dollar
that has grown to be a hundred and
fifty cent dollar and still grows At an
augmented rate. There may be those
who are tired Of the silver question,
but the consequences Of gold mono-
m etalism are too threatening to per-
NIT the cause Of silver to be smothered
and to abandon it and give over toulti.
mate slavery the toilers Of the land.
No, tho silver question will not down.
The issue is paramount 70 all others.
Although necessarily political ques-
ton in some sense, the remedy must
be by political action.
1.-THE question OF tree bi>metallio
coinage is not 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 q question so vital to the
public welfare. The gold mono
metaliists are united, active and W a,ch.
full, as recent events have shown.
They have unlimited means at CON-
mand. control the metropolitan press,
,ntimidate political leaders, dominate
conventions and dictate platforms and
candidates. But the people will no,
be enslaved, nor will they submit for.
ever to robbery by an incre asins gold
standard.
1.-THE silver committee, 10 this crisis
calls upon the people every here &c
send delegates TO the convention
The call is extended to all who earn
es,ly favor the restoration of free bi