The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-04-30
The Friends of Bi-Metalism Urgently
Requested TO Rally Round
Their Standard.
The Second National Silver COnven-
ton to BE Held at Washing
ton in May.
The ..Call::,Is Extended to All Parties
Creeds. and Organizations for
United Action.
Call For a silver Convention.

Call For n Silver Convention.
WASHINGTON, April 23.-The national
silver committee today issued the follow
ing call: The national silver convention
held at st. Louis in November, 1889, be-
lieving that an exigency has arisen which
calls for earnest deliberation and united
action On the part of the friends of BIZ
metalism throughout the United States,
hereby calls the convention to be known
as the second national silver convention,
to be held at Washington, ID. c., May 90
and 81, 1892, one of the objects being to
organize a national bi-metalic association
or league for the better promotion of the
cause of free bi-metalic coinage in the
United States. This action is impelled
by a manifest determination on the part
of gold combinations to suppress the
silver issue for at least another decade,
and if possible by transmitting the exist
ing debts into gold obligations and other
wise to fasten forever the single gold
standard upon the people of the United
States and thus to perpetuate a subtle
system OF robbery that has been carried
on for the past six years by means of the
money that is constantly in
creasing in value. His understanding
must be defective who dOes not know
hat decentralization of silver increased
the money standard of the United
States and of the world and his
conscience must be scared who would at
tempt to justify it. But this increase
still goes on and will go on as gold grows
scarce and dear until the bi-metallic
standard established a hundred years
ago by Washington, Hamilton and JEFF
%ferson, is restored and gold relieved of
the strain of being the only none of
final redemption for the other forms of
money and credit. AS the money stand
ard is raised prices fall and debts are in
creased. One is the counterpart of the
other and the whole is the work of legis
lation. The will of man could not de-
wise a scheme better calculated to en-
rich one class at the expense of another,
then by the service of increasing the
money standard. Under the operation
of this device since 1873, hundreds of
millions of dollars annually of the wealth
created by N class have been s~tealthily
appropriated by another. For twenty
years this has been going on
and yet congress, pledged to the people
to remedy the wrong, hesitates and
pauses as If ~hypnotized by the wand of
gold. People want no 7O-cent dollars,
neither will they forever tolerate, under
the hypocritical pretense of '.honest
money" a dollar that has grown to be
a 80 cent dollar and is still growing at
that augmented rate. There may be
those who are tired of the silver qucs-
ton, but the consequences of gold mono
metalllsm are o threatening to permit
the cause of silver to be smothered and
to abandon it is to give over to ultimate
slavery the toilers of the land. No, the
SILVER question will not down. It's issue
is paramount to all others. Although it
is necessarily a political question in the
sense that the remedy must be in political
action, the question and convention is
not called for any partisan purpose, but
to urge on all parties the Justice and
necessity of action on a question so vital
to the pubic welfare. Gold monomet-
alists are united, active and watchful, as
recent events have shown They have
unlimited means at their command;
they control the metropolitan press;
they intimidate political leaders, domi-
nate conventions and dictate platforms
and candidates. But the people will not
be enslaved nor will they submit forever
to the robbery of increasing the gold
standard. The silver committee in this
crisis calls upon the people everywhere
to come forward and send delegates to
this convention. The call is extended to |
all who earnestly favor the immediate
restoration of free bimetallic coinage in
the United States and each congressional
district is requested to send two
delegates and each state and ter
ritOry to send two additional
delegates at large. Farmers alliance
organizations, state grangers, patrons of
husbandry, knights of labor and all
other industrial organizations favorable
to free coinage of silver are also invited
to send one delegate for each local organ
%ization. A cordial invitation is also ex-
tended to all citizens who by pen or
otherwise have been advocates of BIZ
metallism. members of congress and of
legislatures of the several states who
favor the restoration Of the bi-metallic
standard mi the coinage of silver on
the same terms as gold, are especially
invited to attend and participate in the
proceedings Of the convention.
BY order Of the national silver COM
mittee, Warner, chairman; Lee Crandall,
secretary. Washington, April q.
HELENA NEWS.