The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-08-03
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Regales the Audience With Choice Sc
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S1INA0us Au&s &.- NJ e1tveT CO0vVHJIo0
resumed its session this morning. OxiuG
70 the inadequacv of the rooms used yes
terday. il Vas decided % meet in Central
hall. bur the agent stood AZ the door this
morning and refused 70 open 10 till ex-
senator Hill. .ex-Con9ressman Symss and
c. 9. Thomas. Of Colorado. guaranteed
sa0 Per day rental. This done. the dsle-
gates Aocked in. President Thurman
called the convsnsion 70 order. A reso-
luton BY J. s Doughsrty. Of Texas. for
the appointment Of committee Of one
from each state 10 devise . plan for i'm
pressing upon congress and the people Of
the United States the impending peril
threatening ruin TO the material intsrssts.
Of which ws have only had . fortaste. was
referred to the commitses on resolutions
after discussion. Then ex-senator Hin.
Of Colorado, addressed the conventioa on
the silver qusstiou:
s.His arguments were chiefly based on
statistics tending 20 show that the adop-
tion Of q gold standard in any country Was
invariably followed by decades Of poverty
and depression. He said the divefesncs
between the value Of gald and silver was
row greater than when the United States
commission made tts famous report, and
no boundary can be ses TO the divergence
that may be reached hereafter. especially
II the foremost silver producing country
In the world shall lend itself 70 the at
tempt being made 70 establish universal
gold standard. Tho scarcity OF gold had
nothing to do with the present depression.
The amount Of money now locked up and
hidden away Was more than double the
amount Of gold now Ia the country. The
suppositiou that by repcalinG the Sher-
man act and thus. BY bringing on great
fall IN the price OF the metal. We could
drive Europe into . bi-metatlic treaty, 10
deIus,on. II ws ere driven BY conspiracy
TO revert 70 the single standard. we should
BY all means use silver. II we restore eil-
yer TO its old place - . money metal BY
unlimited coinage, and II under the force
Of circumstances over which Wo have no
control, our gold supply b drained away.
among the nations Of the world and COM
pei England, Germany and France at
once to adopt bi-mstallism. He declared
that u Weetern Europe persisted In the
measures which raise the value Of gold %
that u shall dow from the United States
and we become silver country. We Will
b carried 70 the pitch OF Prospsrisy
Europe would b plunged In IN abyss Of
ruin"
At the coueiusiou At Hill's address Hon.
J. r. Dooliltle; Of Wisconsin, presented
resolution declaring IL the duty Of con-
gress to coin both gold and silver In such
. ratio OF weight that the bullion In the
silver dollar should equal In value the
bullion in the gold dollar. Referred TO
the committee on resolutions.
Congressman r. g. Nswlands, Of NJ
vsda, followed in an address reviewing
congressional legislation On the silver
question. saying:
"England is the Greatest gold owning
60O,0 600 Of gold. which she can call for any
day. II the draft Of 500. 000. COO recently
made worked such disaster in this coun-
try, what would IL do II she called for the
whole lott England has the gold OF tho
world and knows how 70 legislats for her
interests. We have the silver Of the world
and do not know our own interests. Az
ence. the present blow ct silver might
lead TO financial Independence"
United States Senator Allen. ef Ne
braska, produced much enthusiast BY
brief but stirring speech, in which he
pledged the Peoples party 70 the cause Of
silver. The Populists In the senats, he
said, would not bs found wanting in sup
port Of free coinage at the ratio to 16
He wss followed By Hon. g. 8. Thomas,
Of Colorado, In . brief speech. He de-
clarsd that gold and silver were the monsy
Of history and Of civilization. Ths avsrics
OF man had declared IN artificial and In
famous divorce between the metais. The
silver men were called lunatics and
cranks. but they were proposing merely to
return TO . system hsilowed By history Of
400 years. A reccss was then taken
until D. m.