The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-27

Memphis. Tenn, May 26.-The fol-
lowing address to the public issued
by the Central BimetaIlic league, at
-liemphis, explains itself:
Our Arch Enemies.
To the People of the United States:
The arch enemies of the agricultural
and producing classes OF our country,
moved by greed and encouraged by
a price, have conspired to transfer
the essentially governmental function
of issuing and controlling the money
value of the nation to a system of
banking corporations, full of the vice
of class legislation, and void of any
virtue which cOmnends it to the con-
sideration of the patriotic citizen.
Undaunted by the failure to secure
the sanction Of the American Congress.
the promoters of the nefarious scheme
<have boldly taken the initiatory step to
attain the object of their conspiracy.
Backed by the great power of exhaust
less wealth and the influence of high
official position, they have publicly
convened in the city of Memphis and
openly declared their purpose. They
demand that the constitutional and
lnherently sovereign right to issue
they hesitate at no deception; they
scruple at no fraud. Knowing the in
nate integrity of our people, they
pirate of honest money"
Under False CoIors.
Approaching our aversion to pater-
naldsm, they say, THE government
mISt 60 out of the banking
buSAss' They hope and be-
hevsf &hat We viii not stop to
consider that 10 exact q dollar which
by various legislation they have made
to cost the debtor twice as much labor
and trouble and double the amount of
produce as the one promised, is not
honest" They expect the American
people 10 accept as true the statement
that the money of the constitution
esta blished by their fathers is dis
honest. for no other reason save the
dictate of their illustrious accomplices
and plastic tools. They hope that the
people will ignOrantly confound the
sovereign prerOgative and the bounden
duty of the government to coin money
ard establish a system of uniform
weights and measures, with the bust
ness OF loans and discounts inherently
appropriate to the occupation of the
private citizen.
The True Question.
>Phey think that he will forget that
fhe true question IS not whether the
government shall go out of the bank
ing business but whether the banks
shall go out of the governing bust
ness Thus they design by the aid of
public apathy to rivet the chains
which viii make free men slaves.
To the end that their hopes may
meet with disappointment and their
conspiracy with failure, that the
telling masses of our people may be
saved from an industrial serfdom
more cruel and degrading than chattel
slavery, something must be done to
meet their cunning and insiduous as
sdults. Eternal vigilance is the price
of liberty. Our foe is unScrupulous.
E4is greatest victory was achieved by
stealth and corrupt legislative ieger-
domain, disgraceful TO the men who
planned it and discreditable TO the
peoples representatives who failed to
detect il. The crime of 1873 cannot be
explained upon any other hypothesis.
Ykst the people may come together
anFtake counsel of each other, it has
been deemed expedient to call to-
gether a convention to assemble at
memphis on the 18th and 18Th days
of June, 1885
Let All Attend.
Every community, every city and
town and every state in the union are
earnestly reques led and cordially in
vited TO send delegates TO this conven-
fion. Every vicinity is urged to organ
3ze bimetallic clubs and every club
should be represented. 1t is proposed
that the convention shall voice the
sentiments of the people. Their coun-
try needs their best thought, their
most careful elaboration and ener-
getic action. They have no money to
employ hireling emissaries to drum up
delegates for the cotton exchanges and
boards of trade. Their own intelligent
patriotism IS the only fund to which
they can appeal The object of this
convention is TO formulate some
definite plan of future action to give
direction to the overwhelming volume
public sentiment faVoring
return of binetalhsm to our
land and establishing our in
dependence OF alien financial institu-
tions, to devise means for such a cam
paign &c education that hereafter it
viii be impossible to elect only such
men 10 the legislative and executive
Offices Of the nation as are Unawed by
T5eYer and unbought by spoils
". A. BROWN,
president Central Bimetallic League
oHSheiby county.
D. II. ARCHIBALD, Secretary.