Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-08-24
FREE COINAGE OF SILVER.
Financial Legislation Demanded
by Organized Labor.

:. sohoeu III tie house To-Day res0lu
!, tons for the free coinage of silver
which are regarded by the free silver
advocates as one of the most signif
cant expressions in favor of THEN
doctrine, which has been ellcitsd 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 signed by the chief
officers of the various unions. The
signers are J. d. Sovereign, Grand
Master Workman, and John w.
Hayes, Secretary and Treasurer of
the knights of Labor; Samuel Comp
ers, President Of tie American Fed
Grafton of Labor; Marion Butler.
President of the National Farmers
Alliance, Henry III. Trenor, Presi
dent, and p. F. Mcguire, Secretary,
of the Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners; P. Nj. Arthur, Chief of
the brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers; G. A. Robinson, President
of the Farmers Mutual Benefit As
ISOLATION; Frank Sargent, Grand
Master " orkman, and F, w. Ar
mold, Secretary and Treasurer of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen,
and John Mcbride, President of the
United Mine-workers of America,
Accompanying the resolutions is
as address TO the members of organ
lied labor and all other producers
and toilers throughout the United
States, which led to their adoption.
The address declares "That in
view of the general distress at time
when granaries are full, and in the
natural order of things producers and
toilers should be enjoying the fruits
of their labors, it seems that the
time has come for united actjoa on
the part of those who create the
wealth of the country"
tbs CAUSES or DEPRESSION.
One of the causes which brought
about this condition, the address
says, is the departure from the wise
bimetallic financial principle of
Jefferson and Hamilton
and the substitution of the none ,
metallic policy dictated by the
European money holders and their
allies.
A review of the financial legislation c
IS given to show what part was en- t
acted In the interest of the producing l.
As we'll as the producing classes. Il
The proposition is set forth that be- t
'ore the demonstration of silver t
), 800 bushels of wheat or $4,000 p
pounds of cotton equaled the annual "
Day of a Senator or Congressman, I
While to-day 10000 bushels of wheat b
IT 100, 900 pounds of cotton barely
utfices; that formerly 80, 900 bushels W
# wheat or 350, 900 pounds of cotton ST
you'd have paid the salary of the sc
resident, while to- day he receives -
he equivalent of 100, 900 bushels of
Theat or 100000 pounds Of cotton,
nd the same proposition applies to
ii other fixed salaries and incomes. O
The demonstration of the food ca
reducing section is said To have
aused the manufacturers to lose the OF
larkets for their goods so that hun tn
reds of thousands of workmen have -
cen thrown out of employment and
ne demonstration of half of the
-orld's volume of money makes it y
easy for capitalists to
orner and manipulate the other
alf, on
IN THE INTEREST OF BoNDHOLDERs. tn
In the review of financial legisla- -
on it is charged that all Acts since
lie civil war have been in the inter- La
It of the bondholders and against OF
.e producers, and the Sherman law tie
said to have been repealed at the -
,mand of European tinanciers, al A,
ough grand fight was made by
e peoples representatives.
The resolutions are as follows:
We demand of the present Con-
ess the immediate return to the
oney of the Constitution as estsb-
he'd by our fathers, by restoring :.
e free and unlimited coinage of z,
yer at ratio of l6 to /, the coins
both metals to be equally full le-
l tender for all debts, public or
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