The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-07-13
SILVER MEN IN CONVENTION
VOlRmiH0uS Report From the Com
mittGG on Resolutions,
DBNoUNoING THE GOLD PRESS
General Disaster Predicted should the
sherman Law BE Repealed-An
Appeal to the People.
DENoUNoING TIE GOLD PRESS
Associated Press.

ASSOCldIeU GTeSS.
Denver, Col, July 12.-The interest in
the silver convention has not abated
from yesterday, and when called to or
der this morning standing room was
not to be had. After the appointment
of the delegates to the st. Louis and
Chicago conventions and to the gold
bug" gathering in st. Paul, the COM
mittee on resolutions presented re
port which was unanimously adopted.
1t was addressed to the people of the
United States and says 'The people
of Colorado are standing in the gloom
of impending disaster, and are repre-
senting the people of Montana Idahol
Wyoming, Nevada, Sauth Dakota,
Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. With
reverence for the constitution and witls
answering loyalty to the general
government was asked for your calm
and candid consideration of the fol
lowing facts before you give your ap
proval to the destruction of silver and
money and to the final establishment
in this Country of a single gold stand
ard of values, and thus at one stroke
change all our debts to gold debts, and
inaugurate a never ending rise in gold
and a continued corresponding fall
in the price of every commodity. Con
gress is called to meet in extra session
on August seventh. Proceeding tn ecall
the class which has struggled for TWEEN
ty years to overthrow the bimetallic
money standard, prescribed by the con
stitution, inaugurated a panic which
they untruthfully charged to the ex
isting silver law, ignoring the fact that
there was $780, 900 outstanding legal
tender notes commonly called greeu
backs, which were equally available
with the treasury notes issued in pay
ment for silver, to draw gold from tho
treasury; that the balance of our for
eign trade tulped against US, reu
dering a settlement abroad with Amer
lean gold a necessity, and the great
bankers of Europe purchasing gold
with which to change the money stand
ard of Australia and fill the treasury
vaults of other monarchial countries
The evident purpose was to create
prejudice against what is known as
the silver purchasing act, and under
pressure secure its repeal The success
of this scheme is only pratial. Presi
Dental patronage, supplementiug false
and incendiary remarks by the gold
press, aggravated by daily circular as
saults upon the law by eastern money
brokers sent to every commercial body
and banking establishment iu the
country, possibly won over the house
Of representatives to it, but even the
president admitted in the senate that
there was a staunch majority against
1t. Suddenly the news flashed bepeath
the ocean that free coinage in India
was suspended, and the market price
of silver had fallen within forty enght
hours fully twenty cents an ounce.
The Sherman law was nat the work OF
the silver producing states; Il was
forced upon the country against their
will. Their constant Demand has been
that Of the agricultural states west and
south, and the working masses of the
whole country. They had not sought
to impose upon the country somenew
financial nostrum, and asked simply
the restoration of the coinage laws as
they were from the first year of the
fedeal constitution until the furtive re
peal Of 1873 The Sherman law. was
the trick by which that restoration was
defeated. The charge that the bimetal
lists demand that sixty cents be made
a dollar Is lie. 1t is a trick of the
single standard conspirators that les
send the value of silver. What bimet
allists do ask, and all they ask is a
law REGULATING coinage as 1t was for
rs years, and the country's greatest
glory shall be restored without tE7 ;id
dition or expunging of syllable. The
bimetallists will cheerfully submit to
any legislation experience will suggest,
as necessary to make every dollar of
the United States equal in intrinsic
value to every other dollar bearing its
stamp.
FROM CYRUS w. FIELD, JR.