The Louisiana populist., 1895-06-21
Bimetallic League.
State Central COMMITTEES Ad-
dress TO Louisiana NOfcr~.
Independence Day Fixed for Or
ganization of Clubs.
st,vcr Must Rc Made tic Next
State Issue.
Essential That the Next Sena
tor Shall Be for Free Silver.

Daily Times Democrat.
The State Central Committee OF
the Louisiana Bimetallic League
cot down to work yesterday, meet
inc in The Times-DemOcrat office
in RESPONSE to the call of President
Phelps. The session was Il long
one, devoted principally to Incl
dentals to the adoption OF the fol-
lowing:
! ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE
OF LOUISIANA.
"Our republic Is in the throes OF
a great contest between the owners
of gold and the advocates of mon
ometallism on the one side, and the
people, the advocates of true bi-
metallism, on the other.
''The future veal or woe of gen
erations vet unborn depends upon
the solution of this overshadowing
issue.
Louisiana, as one of the sister
hood of States, is equally interest
ed in the solution of this mighty
question in the interest of the great
producing and mercantile classes,
in the interest of the perpctuity 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 cleo
ton laws. An honest election is
necessary that they may express
their will so that it may be heard
by our sister States, and aid them
to have the will of the people ex-
pressed in the law of the land.
The next State Legislature, then
to be elected, will be charged with
the election of a United States
Senator, who will, for q long term
of years, represent our people.
1--WE must see to it that man
who stands pledged to true bimet-
alism, the free coinage of both
gold and silver upon equal terms,
at the ratio of 16 to 1, independ-
ent of all other nations, is elected.
"The people of this great State
can hold an honest election only
when a majority Of them organize
and determine to do so. To so or
ganize, they only require to know
that if they do not do so their rights
Will not be respected, their voice
will not he heard.
''This money question, the de-
mand for the full restoration Of
silver, is the paramount issue not
only in Louisiana, but throughout
the United States, and it should be
settled, and settled in the interest
of the people against the money
changers, before any other ques-
tion is permitted to confuse the
public mind or distract attention
from it.
"We, therefore, appeal to all
patriotic citizens to unite with us
in organizing bimetallic leagues in
every ward in the State, whose
membership will pledge themselves
not to support for Office any candi
date who does not stand unequivo-
cally pledged to this course. This
is the peoples cause, the cause of
liberty /; it towers above party or
men, and demands the support of
every voter who loves liberty and
justice, hopes for prosperity, and
desires to promote equality of all
citizens in the right to the pursuits
of happiness. This is the cause OF
labor, which produces all the
wealth of the land and pays the
oountry's debts. In its last analy-
sis, it is also the cause of the capi-
talist: His securities are the SYM
bols of the activity of labor the
concrete result of labor is express
ed in commodities produced any
legislation, therefore, which steadi-
ly depreciates the value of proper
ty destroys the substance and the
reality, and the securities, which
are but the symbols, must in the
inevitable logic of things perish
with the reality which they repre-
sent.
''In behalf of this cause, we ap-
peal to the people, that great court
of last resort, which finally rights
all wrongs, to unite into such or
ganizatiOn as will enable them to
60 to tho polls in April, 1896, in
such force that no power of pOliti-
cal combination can divert their
purpose or defeat their will.
''The intelligent masses should
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