The Forrest City times., 1893-07-21
AN APPEAL FOR SILVER.
Colorado Urges the East to Consider We'll
 the Decisive Question.

committee on resolutions adopted by tbe silver convention in session at Den yer. July 12:
 .sTo THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATEs: rbe people of Colorado, standing in the gloom of impending disaster and representing in con di,ion and sentiment the people of Montana Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, South Dakota Utah, Ir,zona aud New Mexico, with reverence for ,he constitution and unswerving loyalty to the oeueral government, ask for your calm and candid consideration of the following facts be- Gore vou give your approval to the destruction .f silver as money and to the final establish ment in this country of the single gold standard of values and thus at one stroke change all dehts to gold debts and inaugurate never ending rise of gold and continued corre- ,nopdnp fall in the price of every commodity
 The Panic and Silver.
 uconpress has been called to meet in extra session on August7 Preceding that call the classes which have struggled for twenty years in overcome the bimetallic money standard pro vided by the constitution inaugurated panic which they untruthfully charged to The existing silver law ignoring the facts that there were sg00 eco Go of outstanding legal tender notes commonly called green backs. that were equally available with the treasury notes issued in pay nent for silver to draw gold from the treasury: thai the balance of our foreign trade had turned against US, rendering settlement abroad with American gold a necessity and that the great bankers of Europe were purchasing gold with which to change the money standard of Austria and to fill the treasury vaults of other mon- afchical countries.
 "The evident purpose was to create prejudice arainst what is known as the silver purchasing act and under pressure secure it's unconditional repeal The success Of this scheme was only partial Venal presidential patronage, supple menting false and incendary utterances by the gold press aggravated by daily circular assaults upcn the law by eastern money brokers. sent to every commercial body and banking corpora ton in the four quarters of the country. had possihly won over the house of representatives to it but even the president admitted that in the senate there was q staunch ma jority against it Suddenly. like d fire bell in the night, the news was flashed beneath the oceans that free coinafs in Inda had been suspended and that the market price of silver had fallen within fortv-eght hours fully D cents per ounce This startling action, forced upon the Indian government without moments warning, the step held in secret contemplate ton by the British government for months, to be taken at Il crit ical and opportune time when the consterna- tion il must cause. it was hoped. would stamp out the last phalanx of bimetallism defenders must have had one of its chief aims the in timdatiou of the senate to bring 1t ill line with tue subservient lower house
 Trying to Force Repeal.
 Immediately the wires were burdened with appeals to the president from banks and clear ing houses and commercial bodies dominated by them for an extra session and to sena tors to re- peal the sherman law which, it was claimed, was responsible for all the disaster.
 "The call was made The time for the session to commence early; early, indeed, that may it not have been the hope of the president that the panic would not subside and the meas ure of repeal be forced through before reason resumed it's sway and truth and logic could dominate the congress The enemies Of bimet alism-and they now fairly number all those who oppose free coinage for silver alike with gold as it was before the demonetizatio Of sil- yer in 1873 openly declare that they will be con tent with nothing less than the unconditional repeal Of the silver purchasing clause or the Sherman law It is for that they struggle; it was to secure that that The panic was created and free coinage in India suspended
 Unconditional repeal-that means striking from the laws the last remnant of legislation that secures coinage for silver. IL fixes the United States firmly in the ranks of the single standard nations. IL is the consummation or the conspiracy organized at he close Of the Franco Pruss!an war to destroy as money one half of the coined money in the world-leaving the other half to bear alone the vast mountain of credit upon which the worlds business Is eonducted-inyiting more frequent pantcs and rendering them mor- destructive and enduring
 Great Britain Accused.
 Tt is idle to hope that reducing the value or silver to the lowest stage will force Great Brit ain to seek international solution Of the dtlem- ma The home of the single standard Is in her Islands Its members have fully anticipated the low degree to which silver will descend They have discounted it's disturbance of her h. dian trade and steeled their hearts against the crime it will be against her Indian subjects The power that could plot for seventy seven years that could force its yoke upon Germany 'he Latln union, Austria and the United states; that could gain to it-s aid the daily press of the country; hat could control for twenty years tne national conventions of the great American political parties-granting in their platforms professions of bimetallism, but always secur- Ing presidential candidates unalterably opposed 10 It, that could change an overwhelming sen ument among the people for bimetallism to aieeling of enmity or indifference, can never be ihouced to relent, for il has counteu the cost una has learned its power.
 The sherman Law.
 The Sherman law is not the work of the sil- reproducing states It was forced upon me country against their will Their constant de- mand has been that of the agricultural states Of 'he west and south and oi the working masses or the whole country. They have not sought to impose upon the country some new Financial nostrum, but have asked simply for the resto ration of the coinage laws they were from .ne hrst year of the federal constitution until tue furtive repeal of lS73 The Sherman law was The trick by which that restoration was de- 'eated It was accepted by bimetallists as p'euge that the old laws should at some future tune be r,s,ored, and they now demand not .nat the Sherman law shall be retained. but 'nat the hostage shall be redeemed by the re- enactment in it's stead of the coinage laws un 1er which the country grew and prospered Tor ]ofe than three-quarters of century
 What BimctalIists Ask.
 , ioe charge that the bimetalliSts demand ,nW sixty cents shall be made dollar Is a lie | .,f fla vi. t.p