The Bossier banner., 1895-06-27
Address to the People Of Lou-
isiana.


isiana.
BIZ THE STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE
LOUISIANA BIMETALLIc LEAGUE.
Our republic is in the throes of a
great contest between the owners of
gold and the advocates of monomet-
allism on the one side, and the peo-
pie, the advocates of true bimetallism,
on the other.
The future veal or woe Of genera
tions yet unborn depends opon the
solution of this overshadowing issue.
Louisiana, as one of the sisterhood
Of States, is equally interested in the
solution of this mighty question in
the interest OF the great producing
and mercantile classes, in the interest
of the perpetuity Of our Democratic
republic and free institutions!
The next State election in which
the people will speak through their
ballots upon this issue, April, 1896,
must be held under existing election
laws. An honest election is necessary
that they may express their will so
thst it may be heard by our sister
States, and aid them to have the will
Of the people expressed in the hw of
the land. The next State Legislature,
then to be elected, will be charged
with the election of q United States
Senator, who will, for a long term of
years, represent our people.
We must see to it that man who
stands pledged to true bimetallism,
the free coinage Of both gold and
silver upon equal terms, Of 16 to l,
independent of all other nations, is
elected.
The people OF this great State can
hold an honest election only when q
majority of them organize, and deter
mine to do so. To 80 organize, they
only require to know that if they do
not do so their rights will not be re-
spected, their voice will not be heard.
| This money question, the demand
for the full restoration of silver, is
the paramount issue not only in Lou
isiana but throughout the United
states and it should be settled in the
interest of the people against the
money-changers, before any other
question is permitted to confuse the
public mind or distract attention
from it.
We, therefore, appeal to all patri-
otto citizens to unite with Us in Or
ganizing bimetallic leagues in every
ward in the State, whose membership
will pledge themselves not to support
for Office any candidate who does not
stand unequivocally pledged to this
course. This is the peoples cause,
the cause Of liberty; it towers above
party or men, and demands the sup
port of every voter who loves liberty
and Justice, hopes for prosperity, and
desires to promote equality of all cit
izens in the right to the pursuit Of
happiness.
This is the cause OF labor, which
produces all the wealth of the land
and pays the country's debts. In its
last analysis, it is also the cause of
the capitalists. His securities are
the symbols of the activity of labor;
the concrete result of labor is express.
ed in commodities produced. Anyleg-
| islation, therefore, which steadily de-
preciates the value of property de-
stroys the substance aud the reality,
and the securities, which are but tho
symbols must in the inevitable logic
Of things perish with the reality
which they represent.
In behalf of this cause, we appeal
to the people, that great court Of last
resort which finally rights all wrongs,
to unite in such organization as will
enable them to 60 to the polls in
April, 1896, in such force that no