Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1895-10-18
THE SILVER KNIGHTS.
ADDRESS OF FRIENDS OF BlMET-
AlllSM.
4 Great Organization 10 Offset the
MOnOmetailIsts-W II II Secret
KeasOms Why II should ExiAI.

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Reasons Why IL should Exist.
An organization having at its head
Hon. VIM. NJ. Stewart, and its head.
quarters at 1920 New York Ave.
Washington, ID. c., has issued the fol.
lowing address:
To THE PUBLIC This Order was
organized for the purpose of combin-
ing into one great organization those
| of our citizens who are in favor of the
equal coinage OF gold and silver, as
was provided for in the laws in force
prior to the demonstration act OF
1913. 1t Is nonrartlsan as to party
politics and aims to work through all
political parties. The society is secret
only so far as the organization of its
local temples is concerned; its princi-
Piles are to be taught to the people
everywhere. The gold monometalists
work in secret; their plans are laid in
secret, and to prevent them from
knowing all our plans of operation,
this order works behind closed doors.
1t is the purpose of the Order to en-
courage the election of men who are
In favor Of the equal coinage OF gold
and silver, and to defeat men running
for office who are opposed thereto
The thinking man will readily see the
advantages of this organization, and
the great power it may WELD for the
accomplishment OF the objects desired
The election occurring in 1896 will
substantially settle the condition of
all industrial pursuits in this country.
If We succeed in electing a Congress
and President who are in favor of
the rehabilitation of silver to equal
coinage, it will insure to this country
period of financial prosperity which
it has not known for over twenty
years. Happiness will be enthroned
in the homes of the poor and lowly as
we'll rs in those of the rich; every
branch of industry will prosper, the
mountains and the valleys will give
forth their abundance, and our coun-
try will be placed in u condition
which will be blessing to all, and be-
come in the future. as it was in the
past, the home of liberty, of labor and
of the common people. If the single
gold standard party shall succeed in
electing President and Congress IA
vorable to their ideas, the doom of lib
| erty will be sealed. Give them four
years more intrenchment in power
and they will have destroyed the peo-
pie to the extent that by impoverish-
ment, want, hunger, the citizen will
have largely lost his individuality, his
! independence will have waned and a
condition gradually sinking to serfdom
will have taken possession of his
mind, and, as hard times continue,
hunger and want becoming the ia
miliar companion of the family
hearthstone, liberty will die. and with
it will be established Il moneyed aris-
toe racy which will own the body of la.
Dor. The picture of an English
mother, working at an iron forge
hammering iron and making nails
from early dawn to late at night, fol
$127 week, will become familiar in
this country, if the Rothschilds o.
England and their myrmidons in
America succeed in fastening upon u,
permanently the gold standard as the
only fundamental money of our cOun
try. This is work which every
friend of his country and of his kind
should need no urging to enlist in, un'
tiringly. increasingly, perpetually, un'
til the close of the evening of the
Presidential election in 1896. Those
of us who wish to leave to our children
a country which will care for and nur'
ture them, instead OF destroying them
should walk into this fight as in the
serried ranks of an army, hand tt
hand and shoulder to shoulder, with
face front to the enemy and know
nothing, either sleeping or waking
but vigilant, perpetual contest unit
this victory is won. This Order
should be established in every village
and community throughout the
United States, and, if possible, thi'
should be done by the 1st of the com
ing January, so that our ranks may bt
we'll filled before the coming Presiden
tial contest. If American freemer
will do their duty, cast aside the tram
mels of party and work for the sol'
purpose OF forcing the great reform w
ask, victory is ours. Apathy, alone
will cause defeat. We want organic
ers everywhere, and want you to write
for instructions to this Office, wher,
yon will he properly fitted out for til,
work.
Cause of Hard Times.
Silver knight.