Las Vegas free press. (East Las Vegas, N.M.) 1891-1???, 1892-04-26
ADDRESS OF Bi-METAILIc COMMITTEE.

His understanding must be defect
i've who does not know that the de.
monetization of silver increased the
money standard of the United States
and of the world, and his conscience
must he scared who would attempt
to justify it. But this goes and will
go on as gold grows scarce and dear,
until the bi-metallic standard, estab-
lished 100 years ago by Washington,
Hamilton and Jefferson, is restored
and gold relieved of the strain of
being the only money of final redemp-
ton for other forms of money and
credit. As the money standard raises
prices fall and debts are increased.
The one is the counterpart of the
other and the whole is the work of
legislation. The wit of man could
not devise a scheme better calculated
to enrich one class at the expense of
another than by the device of an in
creasing money standard, and under
the operation of this device since
1872 hundreds of millions of dollars
annually of the wealth created by
one class has been stealthily appro-
priated by another. For twenty
years this has been going on, and yet
a congress pledged to the people to
remedy the wrong hesitates and
pauses as if hynotized by the wand of
gold.
The people want no zoe dollars;
neither will they forever tolerate,
under the pretense of honest
money" n dollar that has grown to
be l5Oc dollar, and is still moving
at an augmented rate. There may
be those who are tired of the silver
question, but the consequences of
gold monometallsm are too threaten
ing to permit the cause of silver to
be smothered, and to abandon 1t is to
give over to ultimate slavery the toll.
ers of the land. No, the silver ques-
ton will not down. 1t is an issue
paramount to all others. Although
it is necessarily political question
in the sense that the remedy must be
a political action, the question of
free bimetallc coinage is not a parti-
san question, and the convention is
not called for any partisan purpose,
but to urge on all parties the justice
and the necessity of action on ques-
ton 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 command. They con-
troll the metropolitan press, they in
timidate political leaders, dominate
conventions and dictate platforms
and candidates. But the people will
not be enslaved, nor will they submit
forever to the robbery of an increas-
ing gold standard.
The Silver Committee, in this cri-
sis, calls upon the people everywhere
to come forward and send delegates
to this convention. The call is ex-
tended to all who earnestly favor the
/ immediate restoration of bi-metallIc
coinage in the United States, and
each Congressional District is re-
quested to send two delegates, and
each State and Territory to send two
additional delegates at large.
Farmers Alliance organizations,
State Oranges, Patrons of Husbandry,
Knights of Labor and all other in
dustrial organizations favorable to
the free coinage of silver are invited
to send one delegate for each local
organization. A cordial invitation is
also extended to all citizens who, by
pen or otherwise have been advo-
Gates Of bi.metallism. Members of
Congress and Of the Legislatures of
the several States who favor the
restoration of the bi.metallic standard
and the coinage of silver on the same