The record-union., 1895-05-13

will be avalanched; deluged with this
flood of fallen silver pouring in on us.
We will not get cent until we have
wiped out this unfavoIable balance of
| trade amounting to 1000, 600, but until
the American shops and the working
never get dollar. We will merely be
| able to keep at home that which we send
to them In payment of an adverse balance
| of trade. If they want to import from
either us or Great Britain, they must go
to their banker and pay 100 cents pre-
MUM in order to purchase gold ex-
change. We will say, Here is the
advantage. Come to the United States
and we will take your money!
within two years we will have the tide
turned to the United States in such a di-
| rectlon that Germany aud Great Britain
and the go, 100000 of the people OF the
countries on the gold basis would come to
US as supplicants for a bimetallic con-
ference. We would not be begging and
knocking at their doors year alter year
vainly. Within four years the United
States would be the commercial mistress
of the globe. Within five years the seat
| OF the financial empire would be trans
ferred from London to either New York
or San Francisco, and it ought to be at
| San Francisco. This is the gateway of
| the trade of the 1,250, ,000, 900 of the people
b
GENERAL WARNER.
General a. J. Warner of Ohio, Presi-
dent of the Bimetallic League of America.
and candidate for President of the United
States, followed Mr.. Sibley. He said that
the people are far from being prosperous.
he charged that there has been a fall Of
oO per cent. In the range OF prices in
twenty-five years. The purchasing
power of dollar has increased 100 per
cent, and conditions that were never be-
fore known to exist are now in full
swing. There has been shrinkage of
Sl2, ,0O0, 900, 600 in the circulation through
bad legislation, and ever since the demand
Tor money has gone on increasing.
'LeglslsttoD," said the General, "has
shut OFT circulation from every source
except the goldbugs, who have taken to
themselves the fabulous sum of 81 ,Z00,-
100000 through the increase in the value
OF their own yellow hoard.
prices cannot be raised and kent up
under the conditions existing to-day. 1t
has been said by some one that if this
condition lasts long the yellow man with
the white metal Will soon drive out the
white man with the yellow metal
III we lose the tight in 1896 manufact-
| urers may as we'll move their shops to
Mexico or South America if we are to
continue TO do business with money that
"As long as gold rises prices must go
the other way. aud there is no help for il.
L want TO say 10 you people of California
that II you are to make the great fight
only in organizations controlled by the
enemy defeat is certain. 1t is no longer a
question OF parties but of patriotism. Ii
you are not willing to break the lines OF
party and stand for great patriotic prin-
clple, then let me say to you that the fight
Is Already lost, You must p6C SiiVar m
your candidates as we'll as in the plat
FORM"
The following resolution was adopted
believing the money question to be
paramount in importance to all other
questions, and that its right settlement
must precede the return to prosperity TO
this country. we, the undersigned, agree
to lay aside all party differences and SUBJ
ordinate all other issues to this, aud to
work together to elect Congress and a
President in 1896 in favor Of restoring the
coinage of silver upon equal terms with
gold, at the ratio OF l6 to l, and without
waiting for or depending upon the action
OF the country"