The San Francisco call., 1895-05-18

legal tender functions accorded to each, and
no discrimination against either. 1t is not as
silver miners, but as citizens of the republic,
mindful of its every interest, that we take this
position.
The representatives from California, Oregon,
Washington and Wyoming, which produce
little or no silver, feel that their people have
been as deeply injured by the demonetization
of that metal as those living in any State or
Territory in which silver mining is leading
industry. In making this demand we are ask
ing for nothing new. The monetary system of
this country was founded not upon gold alone,
not upon silver alone, but upon both silver and
gold, at a. certain ratio to each other, with no
limitation upon the coinage of either and each
standing upon an equal footing before the law.
The system was founded by Hamilton, sane
toned by Washington ana Jefferson, its wis
dom and justice questioned by none until
the year 1878. In that year, without notice to
the people, the standard silver dollar was
dropped from the coinage of the country, and
every debt therein existing, public and private,
aggregating thousands and millions of dollars,
was made payable in gold alone.
Men that have intelligence enough to COM
prehend its significance and still oppose the
undoing of that wrong should be exceedingly
careful how they accuse other people of dis
honesty.
He was the great "money power of the
world that thus stealthily destroyed the time
honored monetary system of our country.
Those men who own and control vast sums of
money, and debts payable in money, under
stood that If silver could be destroyed by stop
ping its coinage and limiting its legal tender,
their claims thus becoming payable exclu-
sively in gold or its equivalent, the gold itself
would become more valuable. They under
stood perfectly that gold dollar, with silver
dollar by its side sharing its functions and
meeting part OF the demand, was an entirely
different measure of values from what that
gold dollar would be standing alone. They
knew that by the inexorable law of supply and
demand the value of gold must inevitably rise,
while the value of every other species of prop
erty must just as certainly fall This is ex-
actly what has taken place. The business OF
the world is done upon money basis. 1t is
measured in terms of money.
The address was read by Bartine OF
Nevada. and it was frequently interrupted
by applause. The hand-clapping and
cheers of approval were long and loud at
the close, and without discussion the ad-
dress was unanimously adopted.
A recess of fifteen minutes was then taken
to allow the delegations an opportunity to
present names of committeeman. On re-
assembling Shafroth of Colorado moved
that all delegations not now filling their
lists of committeeman shall, within thirty
days, send in the names of their commit
tees; this was agreed to, and the following
were reported:
Executive mmittee-Colorado, E. B.
Light; Idaho, G. V. Bryan; California,
H. w. Langenour; Montana, F. t. Merri-
man; New Mexico, T. Bradford Prince
Oregon, Sydney Bell; Washington, w. c.
James; Wyoming, f. w. Mandell; Utah,
R. G. Chambers.
State committee: Idaho-J. w. Plum
mer, James 6. Gwin, Governor w. J. Me-
Connell, w. M. Leisure, w. Il. Bradley,
Charles Brown, Frank Parker. Bishop
William Bulge, L. A. York, VIII Watt,
James McNabb.
Montana-F. E. Sergeant, w. M. Bick-
ford, ]. I. Arlington, A, NJ. Hotter, John
r. Toole, o. P. Chisholm, A. H. Mitchell,
W. A. Clark. o. F. Goddard.
New Mexico-W. T. Thornton, w. c.
Hadley, T. B. Mills, Nicholas Gales, F. A.
Manzanares, D. P. Carr, Jefferson Rey-
mold.
Oregon-J. Bourne Jr., DR.. Robinson,
Colonel f. V. Drake, G. M. Donaldson,
Charles Nichol, T. Patterson, w. D. Hare.
Washington-Miles c. Moore, Thomas
Carroll, Ben Kingsbury, Will D. Jenkins,
Captain Zabury, H. J. Snively, E. T. Will
son and Fl. j. Chase
Utah-Fred J. Kiesel. Moses Thatcher,
E. A. Wall, R. Macintosh, A. w. Twins,
Thomas Kearns, A. F. Holden and ]. O.
Packard.
After invitation by Mr.. Prince to visit
the irrigating congress at Albuquerque in
September, the convention adjourned.
The delegates and citizens united in a
banquet at the Knutsford tonight, at
which there were many silver toasts and