The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-05-30
IN PLAIN LANGUAGE
Memphis Issues a Gall to the
American People.
AN APPEAL TO PATRIOTISM
Campaign OF Education Iuaugurated by
the President of the shelby Coun.
ty timetable League.

Memphis. Tenn. May 26.-The follow
ing address to the public, issued by the
Central Blmetallic 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, have 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 it 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-
clared their purpose. They demand that
the constitutional and Inherently SOW
ereign right to issue money be delivered
| into their hands. They hesitate at no
y
| 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 legislation 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 ignor-
| antly confound the sovereign preroga-
tive and the duty OF the government to
coin money and establish a system OF
| uniform weights and measures with the
business of loans and discounts inher-
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 shal
go out of the governing business. Thus
they design by the aid of public apathy
to rivet chains which will make free
| men slaves. To the end that their hopes
may meet with disappointment anc
their conspiracy with failure, that tn,
| toiling masses of our people may b,
saved from an Industrial condition NOR,
| cruel and degrading than chattel sla
| very, something must be done to NEE
| their cunning and insdious 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 ant
| discreditable to the peoples represen
| tatives who failed to detect 1t. Th,
crime of 1878 can not be explained upor
any other hypothesis
THAT the people may come together
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
ly requested and cordially invited t,
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 O
the people. Their country needs thei
best thought, their most careful delib
GRAFTON and energetic efforts. They hav
no money to employ hireling emissarie
to drum up delegates for the cotton ex
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 t
! give operation to the overwhelmin
vote of public sentiment favoring the re
} turn to our own land and establishin
our independence of alien financial in
stitutions, to devise means for such
campaign of education that hereafte
1t will be impossible to elect men to tn
legislative and executive offices of tn
nation except such as are unawed b
power and unbought by spills.
'W. A. BROWN,
President Central Bimetallic League {
Shelby County.
I'D. H. Archibald, Secretary"