Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-08-17
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED
Without Any Observation-Disclosures helm.
Ing Majority Ia faSor Ut the
Rattle Of 10 TO /.

AAe SiiNVA hhVotihs last
afternoon was largely attended.
At the close Of the speeches the
Committee on Resolutions made
their reports, both majority and mi,
nority, and it being late in the after
noon the chairman decided that
there would be no discussion and
AS a matter of fact the majority of
the people in the house did not
know just what was being voted
upon. There was something like
five o r six hundred farmers in the
house and at the time the resolu-
tons were submitted there was
quite a disturbance. as some thought
the meeting had adjourned and
that State Superintendent of Public
Schools was going to speak. The
minority report only received three
or four votes. The majority report
received from 35 to 40. The rest
OF those present did not vote at all.
The number of those who did not
vote was from two to four hundred.
The following are the two reports of
the committee:
MEXICO, Mo-, August II, 1893
The citizens of Audrain County,
and of the 9th Congressional dis
trict of Missouri, in convention
assembled do adopt and promul-
gate the following preamble and
declaration of principles and de-
mand of our Senators and Repre-
sentatives that they take notice of
this appeal.
WHEREAS, There exists a formid-
able and wide spread conspiracy
to strike down silver coinage
throughout the world, thus COM
pleting the scheme begun by the
cowardly demonstration act of
1873, and forwarded by the Sher-
man law of 1890, both of which
have been repeatedly denounced by
the best fnanciers of the land, and
thus largely depreciating the value
of all agricultural and other pro-
ducts of labor, and correspondingly
increasing tue value of money,
there by burdening the debtor classes
beyond ability to pay, demoralizing
agriculture, arresting enterprise and
the wheels Of commerce, impover-
ishing the %toiler, degrading man.
kind and bringing distress and I'M
told calamities upon hundreds of
thousands of our people, all to
crafty the Unsuitable greed of the
money changers of the world, aided
and abetted by many occupying
high positions in our National coun-
ellis.
Therefore, in view of these facts,
we declare,
First, That there must be no
compromise of this question;
that geld and silver must stand on
equal footing before the law.
Second, All legislation demonetiz-
ing or restraining the coinage
of silver must be repealed
and silver restored to the position
given it by the founders. of
our nation and defended by our
ablest statesmen, Washington ,Jeffer-
son, Jackson, Lincoln and others,
and as it stood for so years without
complaint from any part of our
people and as it stood when demon
etized in 1873 when one dollar of
silver containing 412 Z grains was
worth 1O3 cents in gold.
Third, We believe that the pres
ent financial stringency was largely |
precipitated by the efforts of Wall
street capitalists and spectators to
force an issue of government bonds.
We believe further that u none
tary system is not dependent upon
nor should it be dictated by any
other power ON earth.
Fourth, We hope to see our Sena-
tors and Representatives stand un.
alterably opposed to any act that
seeks to change the present ratio OF
16 to /, and we regard any increase
of the ratio as a surrender to Wall
street to that extent.
Fifth, We direct that our Secretary
forward a copy of these resolutions
to Congressman Clark and Sena-
tors Cockrell and Vest.
J. N. Cross,
S. B. Cook,
JAS. A. CRAIG.
REPORT,