The herald., 1894-08-22
FREE COINAGE RESOLUTIONS
Presented by representative
Hartman.
The Expression oe the Industrial
Unions.
Ono of che Strongest Memorials Ever
Laid Before Congress-A Demand
for thu Money of tho
Constitution.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WAsnINaToS, Aug. 2l.-Represeuta-
tive Hartman OF Montana presented in
the house today resolutions for the free
coinage of silver which are regarded by
the free silver advocates as ons OF the
most significant OK Dressions in favor of
their doctrine which have been elicited
by the agitation of the past year. The
resolutions have been considered and
adopted during the present session by
the most powerful labor organizations OF
the country. are strongly worded. and
are signed by the chief officers of the
various unions. The eigners are: J.
d. Sovereign, grand master workman.
erd John W. Hayes. secretary and
treasurer OF the knights OF Labor; Sam
uel Gompers, president Of the American
president of the National Farmers
alliance; Henry II. Trenor, president.
and 7. f. Mcguire, secretary of the
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners !;
2. M. Arthur, chief of the Brotherhood
OF l. ,comotive Engineers; @. A. Rollin-
son, president of the Farmers Mutual
Benefit association; Frank Sargent.
grand master workman. and f. W. Ar
mold, secretary and treasurer OF the
Brotherhood OF Loc comot!ve Firemen,
and John Mcbride, president of the
United Mine Workers Of America.
Accompanying the resolutions is an
address to the members OF organized
labor and all other producers and toilers
throughout the United States, which
led to their adoption. The address de-
clares ''that in view OF the general dis
tress at a time when granaries are full
and in the natural order OF things pro-
ducers and toilers should be enjoying
the fruits OF their labors~iS seems that
the time has come for united action on
tie part of those who create 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 to show what part was enacted in
the interest of the producing as we'll as
the non.producing classes. The propo-
sition is set forth that before the demon
etization OF silver $500 bushels OF wheat
or So, 600 pounds of cotton egualled the
annual pay OF a senator or congressman,
while today 10000 bushels of wheat or
100000 pounds OF cotton barely suffice
that formerly 20, 900 bushels of wheat or
$780, 600 pounds OF cotton would have
paid the salary of the president, while
today he rece;vea the equivalent OF
100, coo bushele of wheat, or l 900, 900
pounds of cotton, and the same proper
ton applies to all fixed salaries and
incomes.
The decentralization of the food-pro-
ducing section is said to have caused
manufacturers to lose the markets Tor
their goods, 30 that hundreds OF thous-
ands OF workmen have been thrown out
OF employment and the decentralization
OF nall OF the worlds money makes it
comparatively easy for capitalists to
corner and manipulate the other half
In the review of financial legislation, it
is charged that all acts since the civil
war have been in the interests OF the
bondholders and against the producers,
and thu Sherman law is said to have
been repealed at the demand of Eu-
ropean fnanciers, although a grand
fight was made by the peoples repre-.
Hentatives.
The resolutions are ss follows:
We demand of the present congress
the immediate return to the money of
the constitution as established by our
fathers, by restoring the free and un-
limited coinage OF silver at a ratio OF Is
to /. the coins of both metals to oe
equally full legal tender for all debts,
public and private, as before the fraud
client demonetization of silver in 1878.
We also condemn the issuance of ma
tional debt in the time of peace and the
use If bearing bonds at any
time.