The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-08-16
AN APPEAL
Issued by the Executive Committee
of the Silver League.

of the Silver League.
The executive committee appointed at
the Chicago silver convention met today
in this city and tonight issued IAN ap-
peal to the people, signed by A. J. War
ner, chairman, and George F. Wash
burn, secretary. The text of the appeal
is as follows:
Congress has been convened in extra
session and the unconditional repeal of
F.. the present silver law is urged upon it,
The repeal Of this law will at once stop
all increase in the 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 accelerated rate. The conspiracy
to force this condition upon the people
of the country is supported by powerful
interests at home and abroad, with I'M
limited means to carry out their purpose,
which they are determined to do regard
less Of consequences to others.
The country is now in the throes of a
disastrous panic caused by currency
famine and the destruction of credit
which has been needlessIy brought about
to force the repeal of the silver law
The situation is altogether the most peril
Gus in the history of the country. Can
proved by shutting off the money supply
and still further restricting the volume Of
currency? 1t is time when more money
and not less is needed.
1t is futile to suppose that credit al
ready overexpanGed can be made to take
the place of money. The crops are to be
moved and there is no money to move
them. Prices of all products are unpre-
cedently low and must go 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 ii. Is this condition
to be made to last until the gold con-
spirators accomplish their unholy Dur
pose? II will unless the people come
to the rescue. This is the peoples cause
and If they would keep their own and re-
main free men, they must arouse and
protect their rights and their homes
from the grasping hands of the gold
conspirators, who would produce Euro
pean conditions in this country if they
could.
THE committee appointed at the Chi
cago convention to resist the mad pur-
pose to destroy silver as money and
establish the single gold standard calls
upon the people everywhere to lay aside
for the time, party differences and to
assemble at their accustomed places of
meeting, as our fathers did of old, and
pass resolutions calling upon their rep
reSenta tiveS and senators in congress to
resist the repeal of the present silver
law, unless coupled with a provision re-
storing the free coinage of both gold and
silver, as it existed under the law prior
to the passage of the fraudulent act of
1873.
I'VE recommend also that at all as
eepblages the resolutions and address
adopted at the Chicago silver conven-
ton Aug be read and that voters be
urged to send petitions and write letters
or postal cards to their representatives
and senators and in this manner to
earnestly enter their protest against the
overthrow of the money of the. consti-
tuition and the enforcement upon them
of the single gold standard.
cit is as important now that we free
ourselves from the financial domination
of Europe as Il was for our fathers to
free themselves from the political
domination of 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 to main
tain them.
"A. ]. WARNER, Chairman"
GEORGE +. EVASHBURN, Sec"