Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-27
ITS PRONUNClAMENTO.
TIE BlMETALLlC LEAGUE ELIMINATES
Ii Scatters Sonorous Adjectives by the Shovel ful-The Call for Convention
 Is Reiterated.

Memphis, Tenn, May 26.-The Bi- metallic league of Tennessee has issued the following pronuneiamento:
 "To the People of the United States:
 "The arch enemies of the agricultural and rToducing classes of our country, moved by greed and encouraged by avarice, have eonspired to transfer the essentially governmental function of issuing and controlling the money vol ume of the nation to a sytem of bank ing corporations, full of the vice of class legislation and void of any virtue which commends it to the consideration of patriotic citizen.
 "Undaunted by the failure to secure the sanction of the American congress, the promoters of this nefarious scheme have boldly taken the initiatory step to the object of their conspiracy. Backed by the great power of eXhaustless wealth and the influence of high official position, they have publicly convened in the city of Memphis and openly declared thelr purpose. They demand that the consl- tutional and inherently sovereign right to issue money be delivered into thelr hands They hesitate at no deception they scruple at no fraud
 Knowing the innate Integrity o1 our people, they pIdle ol HOilSoN hioiiSS' Appreciating our aversion to paterndl- ism, they say the government must go out of the banking business. They hope and believe that we will not stop to con Sider that to exact a dollar, when Dy vicious legislation they have made cost the debtor twice as much labor and double the amount of produce as the one promised, is not honest They ex- pect the American people to accept as true the statement that the money of the constitution established by the fathers is dishonest for no other reason save the diet of their illustrious accompllces and plastic tools. They hope that the people will ignorantly confound the soV- ereign prerogative and the bounden duly of the government to coin money and es- tablish a system of uniform weights ana measures with the business of loans and discounts inherently appropriate to the occupation of the private citizen.
 They think that we will forget that the true question is not whether the gov ernment shall go out of the banking business. but whether the banks shall go out of the governing business. mus they design by the aid of public apathy to rivet the chains which will make tree men slaves.
 s9ro the end that their hopes may meet with disappointment and their conspir- acy with failure-that the toiling masses of our people may be saved from an ln- 3dustrial serfdom more cruel and degrau- ing than chattel slavery-somethlng must be done to meet their cunningly- directed and insidious assaults.
 "EternaI vigilance is the price of lib- erty Our foe is interruptions; his great est victory was achieved by stealthy and corrupt legislation, legerdemain dis graceful to the men who planned it and discreditable to the peoples representa- tives who failed to detect it. The crime of 1873 cannot be explained upon any other hypothesis.
 That the people may come together and take counsel of each other. it has been deemed expedient to call together a convention to assemble at Memphis on the 12th and 18th days of June, 1Ss5 Every community, every city and town and every state in the union is earn estly requested and cordially invited 10 send delegates to that convention.
 Every vicinity is urged to organize bimetallic clubs, and every club should be represented. It is proposed that this convention shall voice the sentiments of the people. Their country needs their best thoughts, their most careful delib- eration and energetic action. They have no money to employ hireling emissaries to drum delegates from cotton ex- changes and boards of trades; their own intelligent patriotism is the only fund to which they can appeal
 "The object of this convention is to formulate some definite plan or future action to give direction to the over wheming volume of public sediment fa- voring return to our own, and estab- fishing our independence of alien finan- cial institutions; to devise means for such a campaign of education that it hereafter will be impossible to elect only such men to the legislative and executive offices of the nation as are nnawed by power and unbought by spells.
 'sW. N. BROWN, "Presdent Central Bimetalltc League of
 Shelby County.
 "D H. ARCHIBALD, Secretary"
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