Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1892-05-04
County Official Paper.
The SILVER CONVENTION.

pointed by the farst national silver
convention, November, 1883, at st.
Louis, believing that the exigency hW
arisen which calls for earnest dellber-
Stion and united action on the part
Ut b~imetaliistn throughout the United
States, hereby calls q convention, to
be known rs the second national sill
Q convention, to be held at Wash-
ingtou on May Is and a. n of the
objects being TO organize q national
metallic association oF4eague for the
better promotion Of the cause Of free
bime Ali4e ceiNaxe The HctiO1 Ia i'm
PEELED by the manifest determination
on the part OF the gold combination
to suppress the silver issue for ut
least another decade, and il possible
by Transmitting existing debts into
gold obligations and otherwise to
fasten forever the single gold stand
ard upon the people and thus to per-
petuate the subtle system of robbery
that has been carried on for twenty
years by mean OF a money standard
that ia constantly increasing in value.
His understanding must be defec-
tive who does not know that the de-
monetizatiou of silver increased the
money standard of the United States
and of the world, and his conscience
must be scared when he would al
tempt to justify it. But this increase
still goes on, and will go on as gold
grows scarce aod dear, until the hi.
metallic standard established 100
years ago by Washington, Hamilton
and Jefferson is relieved of the strain
OF being the only money Of final re.
demption for other forms of money
and credit.
As the money standard is raised
prices fall and the debts are increased.
The q is the Counterpart Of the
other, and the whole is the work Of
legislation.
The will of man could not devise q
scheme better calculated to enrich one
class at the expense of another than
by the device of an increasing money
standard and under the operation of
this device, since 1873, hundreds of
millions Of dollars annually of the
wealth created by one class have been
,steslthily appropriated by another.
For twenty years this has been 60
ing on and yet a Congress pledged to
the people TO remedy the wrong hest
tates and pauses az it hypnotiEed by
the wand OF gold.
The people want no 70.cent dollars
neither will they forever tolerate
under the hypoor;tjoal pretense Of
'honest money" a dollar that has
grown 70 DO a 100 cent dollar and is
still growing at an augmented rate.
There may be those who are tired
OF the silver question, but the conse-
quences OF gold mo0o-metallism are
too threaten g to permit the cause Of
silver to be smothered and 70 abandon
it is to give over 10 ultimate slavery
the toilers of the Iaod.
No, the silver question will not
down. 1t is a question paramount to
all others. Although il is necessarily
political question in the sense that
the remedy must DO a political action,
the question Of rebimetallic coinage
Is not u p~arCisan question aud the
convention is not called for any parLi.
san purpose, but to nrge on all parties
the justice OF a question 80 vital u
the public welfare.
The call is extended to all who earn
7estly favor the immediate restoration
Of free bi-metallic coinage 10 tn,
United States aud each C~ongressiona
district is requested TO send two nd
dltional delegates ut large.
Primers Alliance organizations
State Oranges, Patrons OF Husbaudry
Knights of Labor and all other in
dustrial organizations favorable u
che free coinage Of silver are also in