The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-02-20
ADDRESS TO POPULISTS.
Peoples Party congressman Out
line the Duties OF Their
Constituents.

WASHINGTON, D. c. Feb. IA. The
Populist members of the senate and house
whose names are attached besides the
others whose signatures given, have
Issued the following addresses:
TO the members of the PEOPLES Party:
Greeting: AS early as 1866 a conspiracy
was entered into between the gold gam
blers of Europe and America to accom-
plish the following purposes
10 fasten upon the people Of the United
States the burden of perpetual debt; to
destroy the greenbacks which had brought
us safely through the perils of the war;
to strike down silver a money metal
TO deny to the people the use of federal
paper and silver, the two Independent
sources of money supply guaranteed by
the constitution, to fasten upon the coun-
try the single gold standard of Great Brit
ain and to delegate to thousands of bank
ing corporations organized for private
gain, the sovereign control for all time
over the issue and volume of all supple
mental paper currency. Thus they double
the demands for gold, forced upon the
country an approaching money standard
entaiiing an indefinite period of falling
prices; robbed enterprise of it's just pro-
hts; condemned labor to idleness and con-
hscated the property of the debtors.
For nearly 80 years these conspirators
have kept the people quarreling over less
important matters, while they have pursued
pose. At the present moment every device
OF treachery, every resource OF statecraft
and every artifice known to
THE SECRET CABALS
of the international gold ring, are being
made use Of to deal a final death blow to
the prosperity Of the country and the finan-
cial and commercial independence Of this
country. They seek to accomplish their fell
purposes before the blow can be averted
through the ballot. Their plans have been
long matured ana their line of action is
fully chosen. They address themselves to
the one subject, the money question, in all
Of its breadth and magnitude. This brings
the country face to face with a perious
issue which calls for immediate and united
action on the part of the people. Every be-
hest of patriotism requires that we shall
at once meet the issue and accept the chal-
lenge defiantiy offered.
To falter now is to invite disastrous fail
ure. We earnestly urge the Populists
throughout the country to concentrate their
en- tire force and energy upon the tremen-
dOus contention presented and thus meet
the enemy upon his chosen line of battle.
Invite the aid and co-opera ton of all per-
sons who favor the immediate free coinage
of silver at the rate Of 16 to l. the issue
of all paper money by the general govern
ment without the Intervention of banks of
issue, and who are opposed to the issue
Of interest-bearing government bonds in
time of peace. In a word, to extend the
hand of fellowship to all who agree with
you upon the money question, which Is
certainly the mightiest and most funda-
mental controversy evolved during the pres
ent century. (SigneO
LATE Pence, o. NJ. KEN, T. J. Hudson,
William Baker, w. A. McKeighan, VIM. V.
Allen, John Davis, w. A. Harris, Jerry
Simpson, John c. Bell James H. Kyle, H.
E. Boon, H. E. Taubeneck, ]. H. Turner.
]. B. Weaver.