The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-06-01
Memphis Issues a Call to the
American People.
AN APPEAL TO PATRIOTISM
Campaign OF Education Inaugurated by
the President OF the shelby Coun
~ Bimetnllie League.

Memphis, Tenn. May 26.-The follow
Ing address to the public. issued by the |
Central Bimetallic League at Memphis,
explains itself to the people of the
United States:
1.-THE arch enemies of the agricultural
and producing classes of our country
moved by greed. nave cOnspired TO
transfer the essentially governmental
function of controlling the money vol
ume of the nation to the banking cor
porations. The system is full OF the
vice of class legislation. and void OF
any virtue which commends 1t TO the
consideration of the patriotic citizen.
"Undaunted by their failure to Sc
cure the sanction of the American con-
gress, promoters of the scheme have
boldly taken the initiatory step to attain
the object of their conspiracy. Backed
by the great power of exhaustless
wealth and the influence of high official
position, they have publicly convened IN
the city of Memphis and openly de-
elared their purpose. They demand that
the constitutional and inherently SOW
ereign right to issue money be delivered
into their hands. They hesitate at no
deception They stop at nothing. Know
ing the innate integrity of our people,
they prate of honest money. Appreciat-
ing our aversion to paternalism, they say
the government must go out of the bus
mess They hope and believe we Will
not stop to consider that to exact the
dollar which by vicious l. gislation they
have made to cost the debtor twice as
much labor and double the amount OF
produce as the one promised is not
honest They expect the American
people to accept as true the estimate
that the money of the constitution es-
tablished by their fathers is dishonest
for no other reason save the distaste Of
their illustrious accomplices and plastic
tools. They hope the people will lgnor-
antly confound the sovereign preroga-
tive and. the duty of the government to
coin money and establish system or
uniform weights and measures with the
business of loans and discounts inner
emily appropriate to the occupation OF
a private citizen.
''They think that we will forget that
the true question is not whether the
government shall go out OF the banking
business but whether the banks shall
go out of the governing business. Thus
they design by the aid of public apathy
to riyet chains which will make free
men slaves. To the end that their hopes
may meet with disappointment and
their conspiracy with failure, that the
toiling masses of our people may be
saved from an industrial condition more
cruel and degrading than chattel sla'
very, something must be done to meet
their cunning and insidious assaults
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty
Our foe is INSCRIPTIONS. His creates
victory was achieved by stealthy anc
corrupt legislative legerdemain, dis
graceful to the men who planned 1t and
discreditable to the peoples represen
tatives who failed to detect it. Tit
crime OF 1878 can not be explained upoI
any other hypothesis.
THAT the people may come togethe
and take counsel of each other it ha
been deemed expedient to call togethe
a convention to assemble at Memphis
the 18th and 18th days Of June, 1896
Every community, every city and town
and every state in the Union are earnest
" requested and cordially invited Z
send delegates to this convention. Ev
cry vicinity is urged to organize bime
tallic clubs, and every club should b
represented. 1t is proposed that tn
convention shall voice the sentiments q
the people. Their country needs thei
best thought, their most careful delhi
GRAFTON and energetic efforts. They haV
no money to employ hireling emissarie
to drum up delegates for the cotton eS
changes and boards of trade Thei
own intelligent patriotism is the onl
fund to which they can appeal. TIL
object of this convention is to formulat
some definite plan of future action
give operation to the overwhelmin
vote of public sentiment favoring the r.
turn to our own land and establishin
our independence Of alien financial II
stitutions, to devise means for such
campaign of education that hereaft'
Il will be impossible 10 elect men to II
legislative and executive offices of Il
nation except such as are unawed
mower and unbought by spills.
"W. A. BROWN.
president Central Bimetallic League
Shelby County.
I'D. III. Archibald, Secretary"
pNRNES' SUCCESSOR IS APPOINT