The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-27
A SILVER PRONUNcIAMENTo.
The BimetaIIIc League of Tennessee
Issues IT,

Issues IL.
Memphis. Tenn, May 25.--The Blmetal-
lie League Of Tennessee has issued the fol-
lowing pronuneiamento:
To the People Of the United states. The
arch enemies OF the agricultural and pro-
ducing classes Of our country. moved by
greed and encouraged by avarice. have
conspired to transfer the essentially Eov-
ernmental function of Issuing and col-
trolling the money volume of the nation
to a system of banking corporations. full
of the vice Of class legislation and void Of
any virtue which commends it to the
consideration of patriotic citizens.
Undaunted by the failure to secure the
sanction of the American congress. the
promoters OF this nefarious scheme have
boldly taken the initiatory step to attain
the object of their conspiracy. Backed
by the great power of exhaustless wealth,
and the influence of high official position,
they have publicly convened in the city
Of Memphis and openly declared their
purpose. They demand that the consti-
tutional and inherently sovereign right
to issue money be delivered into their
hands. They hesitate at no de-
ception; they scruple at no
fraud. knowing the innate integrity
of our people, they prate of honest
money" Appreciating our aversion TO pa
ternalisp they say the government must
go out of the banking business" They
hope and believe that we will not stop to
consider that to exact a dollar, which by
vicious legislation they have made to
cost the debtor twice as much labor and
double the amount OF produce as the one
promised, is not .'honest." They expect the
American people to accept as true the
statement that the money of the consti-
tuition established by the fathers is dis
honest for no other reason save the dicta
of their illustrious accomplices and plas-
tic tools. They hope that the people win
ignorantly copfound the sovereign peroRa-
tive and the bounden duty Of the govern
ment to coin money and establish a uni
form system Of weights and measures.
with the business of loans and discounts
inherently appropriate to the occupation
OF the private citizen.
They think that we will forget that the
true question Is not Whether the gov
ernment shall go out of the banking
business" but whether the banks shall
go out of the governing business. Thus
they design by the aid of public apathy
to rivet the chains which will make free
men slaves.
To the end that their hopes may meet
with disappointment and their conspiracy
with failure, that the toiling masses of
our people may be saved from an indus-
trial serfdom more cruel and degrading
than chattel slaver1s. something must be
done to meet their .c0nningly-directed and
insiduous assaults. Eternal vigilance is
the price of liberty. our foe is unscrupu-
lous, his greatest victory was achieved
by stealthy and corrupt legislative Ieger-
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ned it, and discreditable to the peoples
representatives who failed to detect it.
The crime of 1873 cannot be explained upon
any other hypothesis.
That the people may come together
and take counsel of each other IL has
been deemed expedient to call together a
convention to assemble at Memphis on
June u and 1B, 1895. Every community,
every city and town and every state in
the union are earnestly requested and
cordially invited to send delegates to that
convention. Every vicinity is urged to
organize bimetallic clubs, and every club
should be represented. 1t is proposed that
this convention shall voice the sentiments
of the people Their country needs their
best thoughts, their most careful de-
liberation and energetic action They
have no money to employ hirelng emmis-
saries to drum up delegates from cot
ton exchanges and boards of trades; their
own intelligent patriotism is the only fund
to which they can appeal.
The object Of this convention is to formu-
late some definite plan of future action, to
give direction to the overwhelming volume
of public sentiment favoring a return to
our own. and establishing our Independent
cy of allen financial Institutions; to devise
means for such campaign of education
that it hereafter will be possible to elect
only such men to the legislative and exec
utive offices of the nation as are uuawed
by power and unbought by spoils
w. n. Brown,
President Central Bimetallic League Of
Shelby County. d. H. Archibald,
Secretary.