Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-05-30

Hfmetallist league Issues nm Adj
dress TO the PEOPLE.

Bimetallist League Issues nm Ad-
dress 10 the People.
Memphis, May 2S.-The following
address to the public is issued by the
Central Bimetallic League of Memphis
and explains itself:
To the Public of the United States!
The arch enemies of the agricultural
and producing classes of our country,
moved by greed and encouraged by
~avarice, have ~conspired to transfer the
essentially governmental function of
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 of any
virtue which commends ii to the con
sideration of a patriotic citizen.
Undauntel by the failure to secure
the sanction OF the American congress
the promoters of this %nefa"ious scheme
have boldly taken the i%nitiatory step
TO attain the object of the conspiracy.
Backed Dy the great power of exhaust
less wealth end the influence of high
official position they have publicly
convened in this city Of Memphis and
openly declared their purpose. They
demand that the constitutional and in
herently sovereign right TO issue
money to be delivered into their hands.
They hesitate 1t no deception: they
scruple at no fraud. knowing the in
nate integrity of III people they prate
of "unhonest money" Approaching
our aversion to p~aternaliSm they say
the government must go out of tho
banking business" They hope we
will not stop to consider to exact a
dollar which by vicious legislation.
they have made &c cost the debtor
twice as much labor and double the
amount of produce as the II prom
Uses. is mot honest
They expect the American people to
accept as true the statement that
money of the constitution ablished
by their fathers is dishonest for no
other reason save the dicta of their
illustrious accOmplices and tools. They
hope hat 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 Occupa-
ton of private citizens. They think
that W. will forget that the r 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
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 toll
iugs masses of our pc 'ie may be
saved from an industrial sCrfdOm
more cruel and degrading than chattel
slavery. something must he done to
meet their cunningly directed and in
sidiOus assaults. Eternal vigilance is
the price of liberty. Our foe is I'M
S~crupulOus, his greatest victory vas
achieved by stealthy and corrupt leg
~islative work, disgraceful 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 eXpedIent to call together
a convention to assemble at Memphis
on the 18th and 18th of June, 1895.
LNtlS community every city, anu tN-
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 'rade. 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 volt me of public senti-
ment favoring a return to our own!
and establish our independence Of
alien financial institutions to devise
IA 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 as are uDawed by power and uu-
bought by spells.
w. n. Brown, President,
ID. III. Archibald. Secretary.
Central Bimetallic League Of Shelby
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