The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-08-17
SILVER MEN TALK.
EiSke Issues a New
Manifesto.
RULE BY THE PEOPLE.
How 1t Is Proposed to Bring 1t
About.
MONEY THE IMPORTANT THING.
For Under the Existing System the
Republic Is in Actual
Danger.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16-President A. &.
Fiske of the Pan-American Bimetallic
League, on behalf of that organization,
has sent notable statement to the special
committee of the United States Senate in
vestigating the industrial depression and
its remedy. He says:
''One or two more panics will dnd this
country in the condition of Rome and
other extinct republics when they went
down. There was no necessity whatever
for Issuing Government bond. and every
one issued, whatever the purpose may
have been. resulted In the robbing of the
people to the full extent of the issue. Why
should we be taxed from $50. 600, 900 to
$3.50 900. 600 year for thirty years on bonds
in order to maintain a banking system
which was conceived in sin, born in iniQuity,
nurtured In conspiracy and ripened into
treason? Why should we be compelled
to use a demonetized bank bill and de-
mOnetized treasury note when the Govern
ment has the power TO issue full legal
tender money? With an honest issue of
money the people could not be plundered
a billion or more dollars each year, and
there would be no occasion 20 pay those
who consp;red to have this nation the de-
pository of their surplus money four or
i've millions year for taking care of their
imaginary gold reserve.
The bonds of nations and the demone-
TIED currency are recent inventions, but
many nations have of late years fallen a
prey to this new device. They must, in
consequences. repudiate or return to bar
barsm. The creditors who are confiscat-
inc IA If ha
ton when the oppressed debtor asks for
honest money with free coinage of silver
and the demonetizing of the paper moneys.
Imitation, indeed. with % cent wheat,
scent cotton. 2-cent beef, 80 cents for =
days labor. Our money will be stable
when the American farmer. planter and
laborer are reduced to the condition of the
people of India aud the other serfs of other
countries under the financial domination
Of England.
1t is sincerely to be hoped that Congress
is in earnest in its efforts TO ascertain the
cause of the present disturbed condition
and is ready and willing to apply the
proper measures for relief, and that no
further attempts will be made to deceive
the people by distractlng their attention
from the real issues, as has been done Dy
discussions OF the bloody shirt, the seal
question, .he force bill, the Chinese Ques-
ton, the Canadian railways and canals,
the tariff and the prescription against one
religious denomination known as the A.
7. A. movement, but that laws shall be
enacted which will bring prosperity to all
the people instead of very few.
at would seem that Congress has al
ready legislated in the interests of the
creditor class far beyond the bounds of
safety, and should take warning lest the
people, who are fast becoming aroused TO
the real cause of the difficulty, take mat.
tiers into their own hands and elect both a
Congress and chief executive who will be
their servant-not their master. With
that day will come prosperity through the
introduction into our statutes OF Justice to
all classes, which may be partially and
briefly summarized as follows: The
moDetzation Of silver to 1914 toll; all
money issued by the Government direct:
all demonetized money to be called in and
full legal tender money issued in lien
thereof; one money for the bondholder.
creditor. debtor, Office holder, importer and
banker; the establishing OF postal savings
banks tbs adoption of the initiative and
the referendum.
This would prove fatal to that political
evil-the lobbyist. Lobbying would be
an unsafe investment, when the people in
stead of corrupt legislative body held
the decisive ballot. The power 10 coin
money and regulate the value thereof
should be taken from Congress by a con-
stitutional amendment. History has dem
onstrated that it is unsafe to entrust a
legislative body with the power to pauper-
re and enslave the people. In like man.
ner the power to enact tariff legislation
should be taken from Congress, and a
commissioner appointed, free from all in
fuences, to draft revenue laws, which whep
finally adopted. by the the voice of the
people, can only be modified, changed or
repealed In given period of time, and
then only by direct vote of the people.
thus allowing the business interests of the
country to adjust themselves to their pro-
visions"
President Fiske says further: "The
Nicaraguan canal will be constructed and
paid for by the Government money, not by
bonds" A number CT radical measures
are suggested. President Fiske says the
views submitted express the sentiment of
10000 members of the association.