Omaha daily bee., 1893-08-16
SILVER MEN TO ASSEMBLE.
President Fisk of the Bimetallic League
Issues II Lengthy Call.

President Fisk of the Bimetallic League
Issues n Lengthy Call.
DENVER, Aug 15.-The executive commit
mttee of the Pan-American Bimetallic as
sociation met today and issued the following
call:
HEADQUARTERS OF THE PAN-AMERIoAN b.
METALLIC AssoCIATIoN-A convention is
hereby called of representatives from old
Mexico and all the states thereof, of all the
countries of South and Central America and
of the states of Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas,
California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho,
Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky Louisiana, Mis-
souri,, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Ne
braska, Nevada. New Mexico, North Caro-
lima, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon,
South Carolina. South Dakota, Tennessee,
Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Virginia,
Washington and Wyoming, to meet in St.
Louis, Mo, on Tuesday, October 3, 1898.
This association was organized at Ell Paso,
Tex, at the southwest silver convention
held in that city on the 5th, 6th 9TH and Sth
of December 1892. and at which many of the
leading and wealthiest ciJizens of the states
of old Mexico aud the countries of South
and Central America were in attendance. 1t
was there ordered that Il convention, repre-
senting all the states be held in Denver in
October 1893. The extraordinary condi-
ton of the business ana industries of the
United States, the danger which threatens
the money of Mexico and the countries of
oOuJn anu CeuJral America, as wen as JDaU
of the United States, the necessity for
broader remedies than the association can
apply under the literal construction of it's
constitution, have induced the executive
committee TO change the place of meeting
and to suggest other subjects for considera-
tion than that alone of bimetallism.
1t is very evident that the center of the
conspiracy in this country to utterly demone-
tie silver and thrust the United States
upon a single metallic standard-that of
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ton, Philadelphia and Baltimore. The press
of these cities has become thoroughly sub
servient to the end of the cons pirators and
has so imbued the minds of the people of the
states in which these cities are and the sur
rounding states that they have all become
hostile to the welfare and advancement of
the west and south whose interests are in
separately blended with fair and full vol
ume of money, which cannot be secured and
maintained unless silver has restored its
functions of primary money upon which, in
company with gold, the credit money of the
cousstry may rest. In the name of honest
money" these states are parties to the
spoiation of our sections and the cities
named are the prime instigators of the
crime.
1t has seemed to US that we should not
fatten and strengthen such cities with the
vast trade and commerce of our sections.
Not only does self-respcct and self-preserva-
ton require that we should deal with
friends, but the geographical position of the
states, the facilities for ports on the Gulf
and it's tributaries and upon the Pacific
coast, the proximity of Mexico and Central
and South America to the Gulf and Califor-
mia lines of the United States, the shorter
distances from them TO many European
and Asiatlc ports, and the better railroad
and interwaterway facilities from them
to nearly every quarter of the west and
south, all combine TO render practicable and
readily feasible the building up of ports
along the Gulf, its river tributaries and the
Pacific coast line, through which the great
bulk of our grain. ore, meats, raw material
and manufactured goods may reach Mexico.
South and Central America, European and
Asiatc ports aud the wares and products of
other climes be returned to us with recipro-
cal profits.
We, therefore, urge upon the governments
of Mexico, South and Central America and
upon the American states interested in the
work and upon all the commercial and manu-
| featuring bodies within them, to send dele
| quest all railroad and steamship lines of this
| and the South American continent and OF
| Europe and Asia interested in establishing
new ports and lines of communication upon
| the lines suggested to send representatives
| for consultation and suggestions.
Let us proceed in this work with delibera
! tion, but tirmness. 1t Is a great and patriotic
| task, as well as of mutual profit and ad
| vantage.
| BY order of the executive committee OF
| the Pan-American Bimetallic Association
| A. G. FISK, President