The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1895-06-21
GOLD Us. SILVER.

LIN dupu'Su no" III progress III
behalf Of soand money promises to be
one ofthe most exciting in the history
of the financial world. In every
state inthe Union the friends and foes
of free silver are marshaling their
forces, and from now on until after
the presidential election next year
the great topic of discussion in polit-
ical circles will be the money ques-
tion.
The headquarters of the anti-silver
men in New York are at No. 50 Will
liams street, on the fifth floor of the
Union building. The organization
is known as the Reform Club, ard
has for its president Charles S. Fair
child, formerly secretary ofthe treas
ury. The hard work of the club
is intrusted to committee or sound
currency, Of which John Dewitt
Warner, formerly Representative in
Congress, is chairman, and Calvin
Tompklns is secratery. They were
compelled only the other day to
secure their present commodious
quarters in order to carry on the
crusade against free silver.
>The club club believes that the present
free-silver craze is due largely to the
ignorance of the masses on financial
questions, and that the quickest way
to check the fallacy and make sound
currency legislation possible is to ed
ucate the voters by carefully prepared
papers and pamphlets from the pens
of wcllknown writer's on the currency
experiences of this and other countries
This is the work which the committee
on sound currency has undertaken.
Byron w: Holt and L. Carol Root
look after the editing ofShe sound
money newspaper articles that ap-
pear regularly in the several suppls4
ments of the club, and Mr.. H. S. r.
I Kissam, of Yale university, attends s
to good partof the correspondence.
The club has been busy for more
than a year in getting classified lists
of voters. and has spent many thous-
ands of dollars in this woak alone.
For example. if it is desired to
reach bank officials, the secretary Of
the committee can communicate
directly with more than 80, ,OO0. bank
presidents and cashiers scattered
throughout the country. Again. the
names of more than a million Of the
most prominent farmers in the United
States are in the list Of the club $
classified addresses.
Secretary Holt keeps watchful
eye on the newspapers Of the country
and sees that they are constantly
supplied with all sorts OF arguments
and articles bearing on the campaign.
The result is that the clubs efforts
are pretty thoroughly hcraldcd up
and down the land, and every mai!
brings in marked copies Of news
paper articles or a big batch of letters
making inquiries ofone kind or ether.
There hundred thousand "Supp lc-
mcnts' filled with sound money litcra-
turc are sent out every week, and be-
ginning now Il "platc matter factory
will supply fresh plate matter on tie
currency question to every paper in
the land that wants it, and the cost
will be only the freight or express
charges.
The work of the Reform club how
ever, does not begin to meet the
needs of the case. IL thcW est there
are two silver papers tc every gold
basis organ, and silver orators are
legion.
But the club docs not conGnc its
operations to its subscribers and sup
portcrs alone. 1t is reaching out
after the students in the colleges and
universities. For example, in Cor.
nell, Columbia, Michigan University
and the College of the City Of New
YORK, the clubs publications have
many readers, and they form them
selves into ccnters for the disscmina-
ton of sound currency literature.
If anyone doubts that there is a
great battle on hand, he has only to
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