The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-09-07
CALL FOR COMMERCIAL UNION.
Address of President Fisk of
the B. M. A.
Let Parallel interests be
Cemented.

President Fisk of the Pan American
Bi-metallic association issues the fol-
lowing call for convention of Mexi-
can, Central and South American
states and countries and the western |
and southern states of this country at
St. Louis on October 81.
ga convention is hereby called Of
representatives from Old Mexico and
all the states thereof, of all the coun-
tries of South and Central America,
and of the states of Alabama. Arizona,
Arkansas, California, Colorado, Flor
ida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas,
Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Min
nesota, Mississippi, Montana, Ne
braska, Nevada, New Mexico, North
Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Okla
homa, South Carolina, South Dakota,
Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia,
West Virginia, Washington and Wyo-
ming, to meet at st. Louis, Missouri,
on Tuesday, October 3, 1898.
"This association was organized at
Ell Paso, Texas, at the Southwest
Silver Convention, held in that city
on December 5, 6, and 8, 1892,
and of which many of the leading
and wealthiest citizens of the states
of Old Mexico and the countries of
South and Central America were in
attendance. 1t was there ordered
that convention, representing all the
states, and territories and countries
belonging to the association, be held
in Denver in October, 1898. The
extraordinary condition of the bust
ness and industries of the United
States, the danger which threatens
the money of Mexico and the coun-
.. tries of South and Central America,
/, as well as that of the United States,
g. the necessity of broader remedies
= than those which the association cal
apply under literal construction o
its constitution, have induced tn
Executive committee to change th
60 place of meeting and to sugges
t, other subjects for consideration thai
that alone of bimetallism.
'It is very evident that the cente
of the conspiracy in this country
utterly demonetize silver and thru'
the United States upon single me
tallic standard, that of gold, for il
l.. currency, is in New York, Bostor
Philadelphia and Baltimore. I'll
- press of these cities has becon
thourougly subservient to the end {
the conspirators, and has so imbue
the minds of the people of the stat'
in which these cities are and the su
rounding states that they have {
O become hostile to the welfare and a.
vancement of the west and sout
whose interests are inseparably BILE
ded with a fair and full volume
money, which cannot be secured al
!. maintained unless silver has restor
,od its functions of primary money, up
ard which, in company with gold, t
credit money of the countries m
rest. In the name of 'honest none
these states are parties to the spoil
ton to our sections, and the cit
d named are prime instigators to
crime.
at has seemed to us that we shot
not fatten and strengthen such cit
an with the vast trade and commerce
our sections. Not only does self
VII, spect and self preservation requ
Die. UIlaI we SuOulu uctI Wlbu liicuuo,
yea Yea the geographical position of the stat
the facilities for ports on the G
lho. and its tributaries and upon the
- cific Coast, the proximity of Mexi
Central and South America to
gr- gulf and California line of the Uni
le. States, the shorter distance fr
On them to many European and Asi'
any ports, and the better railway and
you ter water facilities from them
uire nearly every quarter of the west
south, all combine to render pract
BILE and readily feasible the builo
! l.. up of ports along the gulf, its ri
tributaries and the Pacific coast j
through which the great bulk
,orite grain, ore, meats, raw material
* for manufactured goods may reach n
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