The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-08-22

Washington, Aug. M.-RepreSentanV 1--WE
1iartman, of Montana, presented in the
House today resolutions for the free
coinage of silver which are regarded
by the free silver advocates as one of
the most significant expressions in
favor of their doctrine which have been
elected by the agitation of the
past year.
The resolutions have been considered
and adopted during the present session
by the most powerful labor organiza-
lions of the country; are strongly
worded and are signed by the chief
officers of the various unions.
The signers are: ]. w. Sovereign,
grand master workman, and John w.
Hayes, secretary and treasurer of the.
knights Of Labor: Samuel Gompers,
president Of the American Federation
of Labor; Marion Butler, president of
the National Farmers alliance; Henry
~ Trenor, president, and P. j. Nc
MGuire, secretary, of the Brotherhood of
Carpenters and Joiners; p. NJ. Arthur,
chief of the Brotherhood Of Locomo-
tive Engineers; c. A. Robinson, presi-
dent of the Farmers Mutual Benefit
association; Frank Sargent, grand mas
ter workman, and F. W. Arnold, secre-
tary and treasurer, Of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen, and John Nc
Bride, president of the United Mine
Workers of America.
Accompanying the resolution, is an
address to the members of organized
labor and all other producers and toll
ers throughout the United States,
(which led to their adoption.
Time For United Action.
The address declares that in view
of the general distress at a time when
granaries are full and in the natural
order OF things producers and toilers
should be enjoying the fruits Of their
iabors, it seems that the time has come
for united action On the part Of those
who creale the wealth of the country"
One Of the causes which has brought
about this condition, the address says,
is the departure from the wise bimetal-
lie financial principle Of Washington,
jefferson and Hamilton and the sub
stitution Of the monometallic policy
dictated by the European money hold
ers and their American allies
A review of the financial legislation
is given 10 show what part was en-
acted in the interest of the producing
and will of the non-producing classes.
The proposition is set forth that be-
fore the decentralization of silver $500
bushels Of wheat or So 900 pounds of
cotton equalled the annual pay of a
= senator or congressman, while today
10000 bushels of wheat or 1000 pounds
of cotton barely suffice; that formerly
35 600 bushels of wheat, or $50, 900
pounds of cotton would have paid the
salary of the President, while today he
! receives the equivalent of 100, 900 bushels
of wheat or 100000 pounds of cotton
and the same proportion applies to all
other fixed salaries and incomes.
Cause of RestrRted Markets.
Generalization Of the food produc-
ing sections is said to have caused the
manufacturers to lose the markets for
their goods so that hundreds of thou
sands Of worllmen have been thrown
out of employment, and the demone-
tiza zion of half of the worlds %olume
of money makes it comparatively easy
Yor capitalists TO corner and manipu-
" late the other half. In the review of
7 financial legislation it is charged that
all acts since the civil war have been
in the interest of the bondholders and
against the producers, and the Sher-
man law is said to have been repealed
at the demand of European financiers,
although a grand fight was made by
the peoples representatives.
The resolutions are as follows:
I'VE demand of the present Con-
gress the immediate return to the
money of the constitution as estab-
lished by our fathers, by restoring the
free and unlimited coinage Of silver at
ratio of 16 to /, the coins of both
metals to be equally full legal tender
for ali debts, public and private, as be-
fore the fraudulent characterization OF
silver in 1873.
1--WE also condemn the issuance of a
national debt in the time of peace and
the issue of Understanding bonds at
any time"