The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-08-29
EREe SILVER RESOLUTION.

Representative Hartman Introduces .
Popular One in the House.
WASHINGTON, Aug. representa-
tive Hartman of Montana presented in
the house Tuesday resolutions for the
free coinage of silver which are regard
ed by the free silver advocates as one of
the most significant expressions in favor
of the 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 organize
tons of the country; are strongly word
ed and are signed by the chief officers Of
the various unions
Accompanying the resolutions is an
address ITO the Members of Organized
Labor and All Other Producers and
Toilers Throughout the United States, !"
which led to their adoption. The adj
dress declares that "in view of the gen.
eral distress at a time when graneries
are full and in the natural order of
things producers and toilers should be
enjoying the fruits of their labors, it
seems that time has come for united
action on the part of those who create
the wealth of ahe country" One of the
causes which have brought about this
condition, the address says to be the
departure from the wise bi-metallic
financial policy of Washington, Jeffer-
son and Hamilton and the substitution
of the mOno-metallic policy dictated by
the European money holders and their
American allies.
A Review of Financial Legislation
is given to show what part was enacted
IN the interest of the producing and
that of the non-producing classes. The
proposition Is set forth that before the
characterization of silver, $500 bushels
of wheat or $4,000 pounds of cotton
equalled the annual pay of senator or
congressman, while today 10000
bushels of wheat or 100, 900 pounds of
cotton barely suffice; that formerly 3d.
coo bushels of wheat or $50, COO pounds
OF cotton would have paid the salary of
the president, while today he receives
the equivalent of Zoe, 600 bushels of
wheat, or 1000, 600 pounds of cotton,
and the same proportion applies to all
other fixed salaries and incomes.
Decentralization of the food producing
sections is said to have caused the man
ufacturers to lose the market for their
goods so that hundreds of thousands of
wOr6ngmen have been thrown out of
employment, and the demonstration of
half of the worlds volume of money to
make it
Comparatively Easy
for capitalists to corner and manipulate
the other half. In the review of inan-
cial 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 Sherman law is
said to have been repealed at the de-
mand of European financiers, although
q grand fight was made by the peoples
representatives.
The resolutions are as follows:
We demand of the present congress the
immediate return to the money of the con-
stitution as established by our fathers, by
restoring the free and unlimited coinage
Of silver at the present ratio of 10 to 1; the
coins Of both metals to be equally full
legal tender for all debts, public and pri-
Vate, as before the fraudulent demonetiza.
ton of silver in 1873.
We also condemn the increase of the ma
tional debt in the time of peace and the
use Of interest bearing bonds at any time