The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1894-08-24
ARE FOR FREE COINAGE
A Petition Presented in the House by
Representative Hartman Which
Is Called Significant.
NUMEROUS LABOR LEADERS
Have Signed a Request For Free Coin
age at a 16 to l RatiO---The Ac-
companying Address.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-Representa-
tive Hartman of Montana presented in
the house resolutions for the free coin
age of silver, which are regarded by the
free silver advocates as one OF the most
significant expressions in favor OF their
doctrines which have been elected by
the agitation Of the past year. The
resolutions have been considered and
adopted by the most powerful labor Or
ganizations of the country; they are
strongly worded, and are signed by the
chief officers of the various unions. The
signers are:
J. w. Sovereign, grand master work
man; John w. Hayes, secretary treas
urer of the Knights Of Labor; Samuel
Gompers, president Of the American
Federation of Labor; Marion Butler,
president of the National Farmers Al
lance; Henry H. Trenor, president, and
P. J. Guire, secretary Of the Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners; P. M.
Arthur, chief of the Brotherhood Of
Locomotive Engineers; G. R. Robson,
president of the Farmers Mutual Ben
eft association; Frank Sargent, chief OF
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire
men; f. w. Arnold, secretary and treas
urer of the same organization, and John
Mcbride, president Of the United Mine
Workers Of America.
Ao Accompanying Address.
Accompanying the resolutions is an
%bo of
lied Labor and All Other Producers
and Toilers Throughout the United
States," which led to their adoption.
The address declares that sin 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 action Oh the part of those
who create the wealth of the country" f"
One of the causes which have brought
about this condition, the address says,
is the departure from the wise bimetallc
financial principle Of Washington,
Jefferson and Hamilton, and the sub
stitution of the mono metallic policy
dictated by the European money
holders and their American allies. A
review Of financial legislation is giver
to show what part is enacted in the
interest Of the producing and Of the
non-producing classes. The proposition
is set forth that before the demonetiza
ton of silver $500 bushels of wheat Of
$4,000 pounds Of cotton equalled the an
| rI1o1 of a ,a,,
while today 10000 bushels of wheat o.
100000 pounds Of cotton barely suffice
that formerly $4,000 bushels Of whea
or $4,000 pounds of cotton would hav'
paid the salary Of the president, whil'
today he receives the equivalent O
100000 bushels of wheat or 1,OOO,OO
pounds Of cotton, and the same proper
ton applies to all other fixed salarie
and incomes.
Decentralization Of the food producing
sections is said to have caused the man
ufacturers to lose the markets for thei
goods, so that hundreds of thousands o
workmen have been
Thrown Out of Employment,
and the demonstration Of half of tn
worlds volume of money to make j
comparatively easy for capitalists t
corner and manipulate the other halt
In the review Of financial legislation, j
is charged that all acts since the civi
war have been in the interest of tn
bondholders and against the producers
and the Sherman law is said to hav
been repealed at the demand of EuroI
can financiers, although grand figh
was made by the peoples represents
tives.
: A FARCIAL ENDING.