The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-24
SILYER'S INTEREST
The National Committee Issue a
Call for a Convention.
FREE COINAGE IS NoN-PARTIsAN
Bill to Authorize an International Ratio
Between Gold and SiIYer-English Opinion
Ayerse to More White Metal Money.

WASHINGTON, April 23-The national
silver committee to-day issued the follow
ing call:
The national silver committee appointed
by First National Silver convention held al
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 conven-
ton at Washington, May 20 and 81, 1892,
one of the objects being to organize ma
tional bi-metallic association or league, for
the better promotion of the cause of free
bl-metallic coinage in the United
States. This action is impelled
by the manifest determination Of
the gold combination to suppress
the silver issue for another decade. and if
possible by transmitting existing debts
into gold obligations and otherwise fasten
forever the single gold standard on the
people OF the United States, and thus per-
petuate the subtle system of robbery car
RED on for the past twenty years by means
OF money standard constantly increasing
in value. His understanding must be de-
fectlve who does not know the demonetiza
ton of silver increased the money standard
OF the United States and the world
and. his conscience must be hard
who would attempt to justify it,
But the increase still goes on and will &c
on as gold grows scarce and dear, until the
bl-metallic standard established hundred
years ago by Washington, Hamilton and
Jefferson is restored and gold relieved OF
the strain, being the only money for final
redemption for other forms of money and
credit. sthe 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 class at the expense of an.
other than by increasing the money
standard; and under the operation of this
device since 1878, hundreds of millions OF
dollars annually of the wealth created by
one class are stealthily appropriated by
another.
For twenty years this has been going
on and yet Congress, pledged to the people
to remedy the wrong, hesiiates and pauses
as If hypnotized by the wand of gold. The
people want no 20 cent dollars neither
will they forever tolerate under the hypo-
critical pretense of honest money! a dollar
that has grown to be a hundred and fifty
cent dollar and sull grows at an aug.
mented rate. There may be those who
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consequences of gold mono-metallisu
are too threatening to permit the cause OF
silver to be smothered and to abandon il
and give over to ultimate slavery the toilers
OF the land. No, the silver question vii
not down. The issue is paramount to al
others. Although necessarily a political
question in some sense, the remedy must
be by political action.
The question of free bi metallic coinage is
not .,
is not called for any partisan purpose, but
to urge on all parties the justice and neces
sity of action on a question so vital to the
public welfare. The gold mouo-metalists
are united, active and watchful, as recent
events have shown. They have unl1m.
tied means at command, contro
the metropolitan press, intimidate
political leaders dominate conventions auc
dictate platforms and candidates. But the
people will not be ensaved, nor will they
submit forever to robbery by an increasing
gold standard.
THE silver committee, in this crisis.
calls upon the people everywhere to SEND
delegates to the convention. The call is
extended to all who earnestly favor the
restoration of free bi-metallic coinage il
the United States, and each congressione
district is requested to send two delegates
and each state and territory to send two
additional delegates at-large. The Farm
ers' Alliance, the organization of State
Changers, Patrons of Husbandry, knights
os Labor, and all other industrial orCaniza
tions favorable to the free coinage of sill.
ver are also invited to send one delegate
of each local organization. A cordial invi
tation is also extended to all citizens who
by pen or otherwise, advocate bi-metalism
members of Congress and the legislatures
of the several states who favor the resto
ration Of the bi-metallic standard and the
coinage of silver on the same terms as gold
are especially invited to attend and partici
pate in the proceedings of the convention
by order of the national silver commit
tee. a. j. WARNER,
Chairman.
LEE CRANDALL,
Secretary.