Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-04-24
A CALL FOR ACTION
Issued by the National Silver Com
mittee to Its Friends.
URGENT DEMAND FOR ATTENTION.
Each Congressional District Asked to Send
Two Delegates
TO THE CONVENTION IN WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, April 23-The National
Silver Committee to-day issued the follow
ing call:
The National Silver Committee, appointed
by the First National Silver Convention held
at St. Louis, November. 1889, believing
that the e1igency 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 a convention to De
known as the second National Silver Con-
vention, TO be held at Washington, d. C.,
May 26 and q, 1892, one of the objects being
to organize national bi-metallic associa-
tion or league for the better promotion of
the cause of free bi-metallic coming in the
United states.
This action is impelled by the manifest de-
termination on the part of the gold combina-
tion to suppress the silver passage for at
least another decade, and, il possible. by
transmitting existing debts into gold obliga-
tions. and otherwise to fasten forever the
single gold standard upon the people of the
United States, and thus to perpetuate the
subtle system of robbery that has been car
ried on for the past 20 years by means OF
money standard that is constantly increas-
ing in value.
Increase of the Money Standard.
His understanding must be defective who
does not know that the demonstration or
silver increased the money standard of the
United States and of the world, and his con-
science must be scared who would attempt
to Justify it. But this increase
still goes on, and will Will 60 60 =, on, 1ta a, as
metallic standard, estab blished 100 wears ago
by Washington, Hamilton and jefferson, is
restored, and gold relieved of the strain OF
being the only money of final redemption
for other forms of money and of credit.
As the money standard is raised prices fall
and debts are increased. The one is coun-
terpart of the other, and the whole is the
work of the legislation. The wit OF man
would not devise a scheme better calculated
to enrich one class at the expense
increasing money standard, and under
the operation of this device, since 1878, hun
dreds of millions of dollars annually of the
wealth created by one class have been
stealthily appropriated by another
B For 90 years this has been going on, and
yet Congress pledged to the people to rem
edv the wrong hesitates and pauses as if
hypnotized by the wand of gold.
The people want no '70-cent dotlars,"
neither will they forever tolerate, under the
hypocritical pretense of "honest money"
a dollar that has grown to be a hundred-and-
fifty-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
mOnometallism are too threatening to permit
the cause of silver to be smothered. and to
abandon it is to give over to Intimate slavery
the toilers OF the land.
AQuestion That Will Not Down.
NO, the SILVER question VIII nob oo"n. II
is an issue paramount to all others. Al
though it is necessarily political question,
in the sense that the remedy must be by
political action, the question of free BIZ |
metallic coinage is not a partisan question, |
and the convention is not called for any |
particular purpose, but to urge on all parties |
the Justice and the necessity OF action on 4 |
question so vital to the public welfare.
The gold monometallists are united, active /
and watchful as recent events have shown.
They have unlimited means at their CON-
mand; they control the metropolitan press;
they intimidate political leaders. dominate
conventions, and dictate platforms and can
didates. But the people will not be en-
shaved. nor will they submit forever to the
robbery of an increasing gold standard.
The Silver Com mittee, In this crisis, calls
upon the people everywhere to come for