The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-02-15
TO THE PEOPLES PARTY.
Address Issued to Its Members by PoPu-
list Leaders at Washington.

Address Issued to Its Members by PoPu-
list Leaders at Washington.
WARRINGTON, Feb. 15.-The Populist
members of the senate and house, whose
names are attached, besides the others
whose names are given, have issued the
following address:
To the Members of the Peoples Party,
Greetings: AS early as 1865-66 q con-
spiracy was entered into between the
gold gambl of Europe and America
to accomplish the following purposes:
To fasten upon the people of the United
States the burdens of perpetual debt; to
destroy the greenbacks which had
brought US safely through the perils of
war; to strike down silver as money
metal and to deny the people the use of
federal paper the two independent
sources of money supply guaranteed by
country the single gold standard of
Great Britain; and to delegate to thou
sands of banking corporations organ
lied by private gain, the sovereign con-
troll for all time over the issues and vol.
ume of all supplemental paper currency.
Thus they doubled the demands for gold,
forced upon the country an approaching
money standard entailing an indefinite
period of falling prices; robbed enter
to idleness and contiscated the property
of debtors.
For nearly thirty years these conspir-
ators have kept the people quarreling
over less important matters while they
have pursued with unrelenting zeal
their one central purpose. At the present
moment every device of treachery, every
resource of state craft and every artitice
known to the secret cabals of the inter-
national gold ring, are being made use of
to deal a final deathblow to the pros
perity of the country and the financial and
commercial independence of this coun-
try They seek to accomplish their fell
purpose before the blow can be averted
through the ballot Their places have
been long matured and their line of ac-
ton is fully matured They address
themselves to one subject-the money
| question in all its breadth and magni-
tude. This brings the country face to
| face with a perilous issue which calls
| for Immediate and united action on the
part of the people. Every behest of pa
triotism requires that we shall at once
meet the issue and accept the challenge
so defiantly offered
To fAlter now is to invite disastrous
failure. We earnestly urge the Popu-
lists throughout the country to concen-
trate their entire force and energy upon
| the tremendous contention thus pre-
scented and thus meet the enemy upon
his chosen line of battle. Invite the
aid and cooperation of all persons who
favor the Immediate free coinage of sill :
yer at the ratio of Is to 1. the issue of all
paper money by the government, with
out the Intervention of banks of issue,
and who are opposed to the issue
of Understanding government bonds in
time of peace. In word to extend the
hand OF fellowship to all who agree with
you upon the money question, which
is certainly the mightiest and
most fundamental controversy evolved
during the present century. Signed
LATE Pence. o. NJ. KEN, T. j. hudson
William Baker, w. A. McKeigan, William
V. Allen, John Davis, w. A. Harris, j erry
Simpson, ]. G. Bell, s. H. Kyle, E. E. Been
E. E. Taubeneck, j. B. Weaver.