Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1895-06-01
NUMBER 2S.
A PRONUNCIAMENTO


lssced BY the Bimetallic League of Tens
pessee Against the Gold Monometaliists-
A Convention Called to Formulate some
Definite Plan of Future Action.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, May 27.-The BIZ
metallic league Of Tennessee has issued
the following pronunciamento:
TO the People Of the United States: .~.I
The arch enemies of the agricultural
and producing classes of our country,
moved by greed and encourage by
avarice. have conspired to transfer tho
essentially governmental function Of
issuing and controlling the money
volume of the nation to system Of
banking corporations, full Of the vice
Of class legislation and void of any
virtue which commends it to the con-
sideration 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 attain the object of their conspiracy.
Backed by the great power of exhaust
less wealth and the influence of high
official position, they have publicly
convened in the city Of Memphis and
openly declared their purpose. They
demand that the constitutional and
inherently sovereign right to is
sue money be delivered into their
hands. They hesitate at no de-
ception. they scruple at no fraud.
Knowing the mate integrity of our
people, they prate honest money!
Approaching our aversion to paternal-
ism, they say the government must
go out of the banking business" They
hope and believe that we will not stop
to consider that to exact dollar
which by vicious legislation they have
made to cost the debtor twice as much
labor and double the amount of pro-
duce as one promised is mot honest"
They expect the American people to
accept as true the statement that the
money Of the constitution estab-
lished by the fathers is dishonest
for no other reason save the die
tate OF their illustrious accomplices
and plastic TOOLS. They hope that the
people will ignorantly confound the
sovereign prerogative and the bounden
duty OF the government to coin money
and establish system of uniform
weights and measures, with the bust.
ness 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 government shall 20
out of the banking business, but
whether the banks shall go out of the
governing business" Thus they de-
sign, by the aid of public apathy, to
rivet the chains which will make free
men slaves.
To the end that their hopes may
meet with disappointment and their
conspiracy with failure, that the toll.
ing masses of our people may be saved
from an industrial serfdom more cruel
and degrading than chattel slavery,
something must be done to meet their
cunningly.directed and insidious as.
saults. Eternal vigilance is the price
of liberty" Our foe is unscrupulous;
his greatest victory was achieved by
stealthy and corrupt legislative leger-
demain, disgraceful to the men who
planned it and discreditable to the
peoples representatives who failed to
detect it. The crime of 1873 cannot be
explained on 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 18th and 18th days OF June,
1895. Every community, every city
and town and every state in the Union
are earnestly requested and cordially
invited to send delegates to that con-
vention. Every vicinity is urged to
organize bimetallic clubs and every
club should be represented. 1t is
proposed that this convention shall
voice the sentiments of the people.
Their country needs their best thought,
their most careful deliberation and en-
ergetic action.
They have no money to employ hire
ling emissaries to drum up delegates
from cotton exchanges and boards of
trade. Their own intelligent patri-
otism is the only fund to which they
can appeal.
The object OF this convention is to
formulate some definite plan Of future
action; to give direction to the over
whelming public sentiment favoring a
return to our own, and establishing
our independence of alien financial in
, stitutions; to devise means for such a
, campaign OF education that it here
, after will be impossible to elect only
: such men to the legislative and ex'
! ecutive offices OF the nation as are un-
, awed by power and unbought by
, spoils.
9 [Signed W. n. BRowN.
r President Central Bimetallic League
r of Shelby County.
, ID. H. ARCHIBALD, Secretary.