The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-08-14
MORE CURRENCY.
An Echo OF the Recent Silver Convention
ar Chicago.


sr Chicago.
WASHINGTON, Aug. l4.-Ths executive
committee appointed at the Chicago Silver
Convention have issued San appeal to the
people," signed by A. j. Warner, chair
man, and George +. Wsshburn, secretary.
The text Of the appeal is as follows:
Congress has been convened in extra
session aud the unconditional repeal of the
present silver law is urged upon it.
"The repeal of this law will at once stop
all increase in tho currency, place the
country on the single gold standard and at
one stroke change all debts to gold debts,
with the certainty that gold will thereafter
continue to increase in value at an ac-
celsrated rate.
1.-The conspiracy to force this condition
upon the people of this country is supported
by powerful interests at home and abroad,
with unlimited means to carry out their
purpose, which they are determined to do,
regardless Of consequences to others.
1.-The country IL now in the throe. Of a
disastrous panic, caused by currency
famine" and the destruction OF credit,
which has been necdlessly brought about
TO force the repeal Of the silver law.
ne blt0dtioh - aANtHcbutt Tie HlOSJ
perilous in the history Of the country.
Can anyone believe this condition can be
improved by shutting off the money sup
ply and still further restricting the vol
ume of currencyf 1t il time when more
money and not less is needed 1t is futile
to suppose that credit, already over-ex-
panded, can he made to take the place of
money. The crops are to be moved and
no money to move them. Prices of all
products are unprecedently low and must
20 lower with the single gold standard.
Industries are everywhere breaking down
Hundreds Of thousands Of willing hands
are forced into idleness. There is work
but no money to pay for it.
''Is this condition - be made to last
until the gold conspirators accomplish
their unholy purposei 1t will unless the
people come to the rescue. This il the
peoples cause, and IL they would keep
their own and remain freemen, they must
arouse and protect their rights and their
homes from the grasping hands OF the
gold conspirators, who would produce
European conditions in this country II they
could.
1.-The committee appointed at the Chi
cage convention to resist the mad purpose
TO destroy silver as money and establish a
single gold standard, calls upon the people
everywhere TO lay aside, for the time, party
differences and TO assemble at their accus-
toned places Of meeting, as our fathers
did OF old, and pass resolutions calling
upon their Representatives and Senators in
Congress to resist the repeal of the present
silver law, unless coupled with provision
restoring the free coinage Of both gold and
silver, as 1t existed under the law prior To
the passage Of the fraudulent silver act of
1878.
eve recommend also that at al assem-
.blages the resolutions and the address
adopted at the Chicago silver convention,
Aug. 2, be read; and that voters be urged
TO send petitions and to write letters or pos
tai cards to their Representatives and Sena-
tors apd in this manner to earnestly enter
their protests against the overthrow of the
money of the constitution and the enforce
ment on them Of the single gold standard.
''lt is important now that we free our
selves from the financial domination OF
Europe as it was for oar fathers to free
themselves from the political domination
of q foreign power. Let this movement be
the spontaneous action of a free people,
conscious that government is yet in their
hands, and conscious too, of their rights,
and with the will maintain them"