The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1895-06-01
MEETING
Dimetallist League Issues an ADJ
dress to the People.

Dimetallist League Issues an Ao'
dress to h People.
Memphis, May 2S.-The following
address to the public is ssued by the
Central Bimetallic League of Memphla
and explains itself:
To the Public of the United States;
The arch enemies of the agricultural
and producing classes of Il country,
moved by greed and encouraged Dy
ayarice, have conspircd to transfer the
essentially governmental function OIL
issuing and controlling the money vol.
ume Of the nation to a system OF
banking corporations full of the vice
of class legislation and void or any
virtue which commends it to the II
sideration of a patriotic citizen.
Undauntel 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 the conspiracy.
Backed ny the great power of exhaust
less wealth and the influence OF nigh
official position they have publicly
convened in this city of Memphis II
openly declared their purpose. IheJ
demand that the constitutional and i'll
herently sovereign right to issue
money to be delivered into their hands.
They hesitate at no deception; they
scruple at no fraud. Knowing the in
nate integrity of cur people they prato
of "unhonest money" Approaching
our aversion to paternalism they say
the government must go out of tho
banking business" They hope we
will not stop to consider to exact q
dollar which by vicious legislation,
they have made tc cost the debtor
twice as much labor and double the
amount Of produce as the one prom
ises, is mot honest
They expect the American people to
accept as true the statement II a
money of the constitution established
by their fathers is dishonest for no
other reason save the dicta of theil
illustricus accomplices and tools. They
hope that the people will ignorantly
confound the sovereign prerogative
and the duty of the government to
coin money and establish a system OF
uniform weights and measures which
the business of loans and discounts
inherently appropriate to the occupal-
ton of private citizens. They think
that we will forget that the true ques-
ton is not whether the government
will go out of the banking business"
but whether the banks shall go out of
the governing business. Thus they de-
sign by the aid. of public apathy to
riyet 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 toll
ings masses Of u people may be
saved from an industrial serfdom
more cruel and degrading than chattel
slavery, something must be done to
meet their cunningly directed and in
sidious assaults. Eternal vigilance is
the price of liberty. Our foe is I'M
scrupulous, his greatest victory was
achieved by stealthy and corrupt leg
islative work, d%isgraceful to the men
who planned it and discreditable to
the peoples representatives who failed
to detect it. The crime of 1875 cannot
be explained upon any other hypothe-
sis.
That the people may come together
ing masses of our people may be
and take counsel of each other it has
been deemed expedlent to call together
a convention to assemble at Memphis
on the 18th and 18th of June. 1895.
Every community, every city. and ev-
cry town and every state in the Union
are earnestly requested and cordially
invited to send delegates to that con-
vention. Every vicinity is urged to
organize bimetallic clubs and every
club should be represented. 1t is pro-
posed that this convention shall
voice the sentiments of the people.
The country needs their best thought
their most careful %deliberation and en-
ergetic action. They have no money
to employ hirelings and emissaries to
drum up delegates from cotton ex-
changes and boards of trade. Their
own intelligent patriotism is the only
fund to which they can appeal.
The object of this convention is to
formulate some definite plan for
future action to give direction to the
overwhelming volume of public senti-
ment favoring a return to our own.
and establish our independence of
alien financial institutions to devise
means for such a campaign Of educa-
ton that hereafter will be possible
to elect only such men to the legis-
lative and executive offices of the ma
ton rs are uDawed by power and un-
bought by spoils.
w. N. Blown, Fl esident,
d. H. Archibald, Secretary.
Central Bimetallic League of Shelby
County.