The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-08-09
that the roll Of states be called for tho

that the roll of states be called for the
appointment of committee to,devise
plan and consider ways and means
for impressing upon congress the ruin
and peril now threatening all our ma
terial interests by the demonetization
of silver. Gen. Warner announced that
the committee on resolutions would
fully cover the subject.
The committee on resolutions not be-
ing ready to report, ex-senator Hill, of
Colorado, was introduced to the con-
vention and spoke at length. He re-
ferred to the depression that had ex-
listed in agricultural and labor circles,
with short intervals since 1878, and to
the money riots and other troubles in
this country that had marked this Pc
riod. ALI profit, he held, had been
wiped out by the existing business de-
! preston. The ex-senator continued
that the gold standard countries were
in an abyss of industrial misery never
experienced In q century as a result OF
their present condition Of prices, while
the silver standard countries were com
paratively prosperous.
Gov. Waite, of Colorado, was the next
oratorical star. His advent had been
impatiently awaited, and when he ap-
peared upon the platform the audience
fairly went wild. The venerable gov
ernor started out with the broad asser-
tion that majority Of every congress
since 1878 had been In favor of restor-
ing the free coinage of silver, but had
never been able to enact such law be-
cause the president, whether republican
or democrat, has always been domina-
ted by Wall street, ami stood ready to
interpose his veto. But the people
were TO rise superior to their party and
override the power behind the throne.
1t was as true now as it was 1000 years
ago that we could not serve God and
mammon.
"The late national platforms Of both
the republican and democratic parties"
continued the speaker, "had planks in
favor Of bi-metallism. But both parties
now agree in the repeal Of the Sher-
man act, which practically means the
single gold standard. By the patron
age Of the president and the usual cor
rupt methods Of Wall street, the money
power has probably already secured a
majority in both houses Of congress.
This attack upon silver can only be
beaten back by determined and un-
compromising opposition.
1t was not until 4:2O that the COM
mittee on resolutions marched up the
aisle. in tow of Ignatius Donnelly. The
audience was more than ready and the
Northwestern sage did the reading in
his well known forcible style. This is
what he read
Whereas, Bimetallism is as ancient as human
history, for certain more than three thousand
years, gold and silver came down through the
ages, hand in hnnd, their relations to each other
having varied but: few points in oil that vast
period OF time and then almost invariably
through legislation; and
Whereas, The two metals are named together,
indissolubly united, in the constitution OF the
United States rs the money basis OF this coun-
try, placed there by George Washington,
aAoNS "Nheisoh Sohh huamb Alehhnuer
Hamilton, and subsequently indorsed and de-
Tended by Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lin
coin; and
Whereas, Silver. one OF these ancient metals
was In the year 1919 without any previous de-
mand by any political party and by any part Of
the people or even by any newspapers, and
Witnout pubic discussion whatever, stricken
down from the place it had occupied since the
days OF Abraham and the Pharaohs under cir
eumstancss OF such secresy that Allen G. Thur
man James Beck, James Stewart Daniel Voor-
hees' James u Blaine then speaker OF the
mouse; James A. Garfield, William d. Kelly
ana others present and voting for the BILL as
senators or representatives, subsequently re-
peateoly AND publicly declared that they did not
know until long Afterwards that so grave and
great change had been made in the financial
system founded by the fathers OF the republic;
ana
whereas, The dobates In congress show that
the parontage OF the measure was in part
ascrloed by the friendA OF the bill, 10 one Ernest
Seyd' London banker, who II is claimed was
sent over 70 washington by the moneyed classes
OF the old world 70 secure Its passage by secret
and corrupt means, and
Whereas, President Grant who signed the
bill, declared long subsequently that he did not
know that 1t demonetized silver; and
Whereas, The purpose of this attack upon one
OF two ancient precious metals Of the world was
by striking down one-half the money supply.
to-wit silver, TO double the purchasing.power.
OF the remainder, gold, by making Il the equiv
alent Of everything possessed or produced by
the labor OF man: thus reducing the price of all
arresting enterprise, impoyerish.
Ing the ioiler and degrading mankind That
these results we're not only inevitable but fore.
seen appears by the following language used