Birmingham age-herald., 1895-06-03

The authoritative announcement was
 made in a general circular dated from the Memphis aaring house on May 5,
 and which, after reciting the terms of
 the original call, went on to say: The convention was called after due deliberation and with view to counter
 act the persistent effort being made to indoctrinate the southern people with the belief that the free, unlimited and ln- dependent coinage of silver by this coun- try is necessary to their prosperity. | Trusting that you concur with us in
 the opinion that the long continued de- nression through which the country has recently passed was occasioned by
 want of confidence in the stability of our currency. and that an entire res toration of confidence will be followed by prosperity in all the walks of life, es- pecially in the southern states. We wish to impress upon you the importance
 of the proposed convention. It will be addressed by the Hon. John G. Carlisle, l the secretary of the treasury, and as result of the conference, no doubt, | series of resolutions will be adopted em- bodying the best thought of the south
 on the financial question.
 However, the primary object of the convention will be to inaugurate move ment in the southern states for the propagation of sound financial ideas and the distribution of sound money lit
 erature among our people. We earnestly reqeSt you to confer with such business
 organizations as may exist in your com
 mnnity and with such citizens as are in sympathy with the objects of the con Vention, and to urge them to call meet | ings and send delegates to the conVen-
 tion. The hotel facilities of Memphis
 are ample to accommodate all the del egates who may attend and an apditO- rum has been secured admirably adapted to the necessities of great convention.
 We hope you will cooperate with the business men of Memphis in making this conference of representative southern men notable for its numbers, intelligence | and patriotism, and a potent factor in | securing for our common country safe.
 sound and sufficient currency. Yours | very truly,
 THE STATE NATIONAL BANK. By A. D. Gwynne, President. | UNION AND PLANTERS BANK, | By s. P. Read, Cashier. | FIRST NATIONAL BANK, | By c. w. Schulte, President | GERMAN BANK,
 | By Hunsdon Cary, Cashier, MEMPHIS NATIONAL BANK, l By G. W. Macrae. President | MEMPHIS CITY BANK.
 | By R. A. Parker Cashier. l CONTINENTAL NATL BANK, By c. F. M. Niles, President | BANK OF COMMERCE, By $. H. Dunseomb, President | What followed Is already history. That | the gathering here this week represents actually the intelligent, popular, and not
 merely the banking and commercial l opinion of the south, is obvious to any | one who mixes with the delegates. To l Secretary Carlisle for his share in the l results thus far attained, must be given i large credit. Mr Patterson builded | even better than he knew when he made | his trip to Washington to persuade the | secretary to drop his purely routine pub l lie duties for a few days, in order to perform another public duty, not less | honorable or less righteous or less press | ing in the field.
 | MT. Carlisle's speech at Covington has | already been read by every delegate in | the convention, and by most of the popu- | lation of Kentucky and Tennessee who | ever read newspapers at all. It is pro l noEnced on all hands the most masterly | treatment of it's subject for popular con | sumption which has been put forth by | any one during the last ten years of | vigorous silver agitation. His address | here only caps the climax previously | reached. It is on q somewhat higher lev | el from a technical point of view, than | the CoVington speech; but the difference | is only the difference between the speech | of an orator who is facing a business l gathering and that of representa- | tive citizen talking to his neighbors. l The harvest of this weeks sowing has l still to be reaped and cannot till then | be measured; but unless some worse l backset is given to the cause of honesty | and common sense than can now be fore | seen, faithful and persistent work in the | field just planted will bring forth a gen | erous crop.