Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1894-08-31
lSILVER ONCE MORE
Organized Labor Demands Free
Coinage Of That Metal.
THE DECREASE OF VALUES.

THE DECREASE OF VALUES.
Representative Hartman OF Montana
Presents Resolutions for the Free
Coinage Of silver. Accompanied by IN
Address Of tho. Laber Leaders.
WAsHiNoros, Augusta Representa-
tive Hartman OF Montana has presented
in the House resolutions for the free
coinage Of silver, which are regarded by
the free-silver advocates as one OF the
most significant expressions in favor Of
their 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 organizations
OF the country, are strongly worded and
are 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 the American Fedora
tion OF Labor: Marion Butler, President
OF the National Farmers Alliance
Henry III. Trenor, President, and p. f..
Mcinire, Secretary 81 the Brotherhood
OF Carpenters and Joiners; r. M. Ar
thur, Chief Of the Brotherhood OF Lo-
comotive Engineers; G. A. Robinson,
President OF the Farmers Mutual Bene-
fit Association; Frank Sargent, Grand
Master Workman, and Il. w. Arnold,
Secretary OF the Brotherhood Of Locomo-
tive Firemen, and John Mcbride, Presi-
dent of the United Mine Workers oi
America.
Accompanying the resolution is an ad-
dress TO the members OF organized labor
and all other producers and toilers
throughout the United States. The ad-
dress declares that in view of the gen.
eral 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 the
| time has come for united action on the
part OF those who create the wealth oi
the country One OF the causes which
has brought about this condition, the
address says, is the departure from the
wise bimstallic financial principle Of
| Washington, Jefferson and Hamilton and
1.-THE substitution of the monometaIlie
policy dictated by the European money.
holders and their American allies.
A review of the financial legislation ID
given TO show what part was enacted In
the interest of the producing and what
/ in that of the non-producing classes
The proposition is set forth that before
| the demonetization OF silver $500 bush
els OF wheat or $1,000 pounds of cotton
eaualed the animal pay of Senator Ol
Congressman, while to-day 10000 bush.
els OF wheat or 100. 600 pounds of cotton
barely suffice; that formerly 35, ,OOl
bushels OF wheat or $4,000 pounds o.
Icotton would have paid the salary of tht
President, while to-day he receives tht
equivalent of 100000 bushels of whea
or / 200, 900 pounds OF cotton, and tht
same proportion applies to all other fixet
salaries and incomes.
Decentralization OF the food-producint
sections is said TO have caused the man
ufacturers to lose the markets for thei
goods, so that hundreds OF thousands 0
WOTkmen nave Ueen bnTUMH Out Va chA
ployment; and the demonetization o
half Of the worlds volume of money
makes 1t comparatively easy for capital
lists to corner and manipulate the othe
half. In the review OF financial legisla
! ton 1t Is charged that all the acts sine
the civil war have been in the interes
4 OF bondholders and against the produ
Gers, and the Sherman law is said &
have been repealed at the demand Q
European financiers, although gram
fight was made by the peoples repre-
sentatives.
II The resolutions are as follows: Nv
demand of the present Congress the i'm
mediate return to the money OF the con
stitution as established by our fathers b
restoring the free and unlimited coinag
of silver at a ratio of 10 to /, the coin
OF both metals to be equally full legs
tender for all debts, public and private
as before the fraudulent demonetizatio
OF silver in 1873. We also condemn th
increase OF the public debt in q time /
peace and the issue OF interest-bearin
bonds at any time