The Monticellonian., 1895-05-31
A PROHURCfkREHTO

1ssued by the BImstAIIie ISaKus cf T.s-
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 Convention Called te FoFns4z&s. s.a.#.
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 MEMPHIS, Tenn, Mar z9-T.s ;.- metallic league of Tenuetsee 5zs .sz=...5s the following pronunciamento
 To the People of the UnUsd s,ats.
 The arch enemies of the agrica. ss..z and producing classes of our country. moved by greed and encourage 57 avariee, have conspired to transfer the essentially governmental function of issuing and controlling the money volume of the nation to a system of banking corporations, full of the vice of class legislation and void of any virtue which commends it to the con- sideration of a 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" Appreciating 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 a 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 not honest" :" They expect the American people to ccept 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 aeeomplices 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 busi- 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 go 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 toil- ing masses of our people may be saved l from an industrial serfdom more cruel and degrading than chattel slavery, something must be done to meet their cunningly y=directed and insidious as saults. Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty Our foe is interruptions; his grea atest victory was achieved by stealthy and corrupt legislative leger- demain, disgraceful to the men who planned it and disereditable 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 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 1 invited to send delegates to that con vention. Every vicinity is urged to organize bimetallic clubs and every club should be represented. It is l 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 nm awed by power and unbought by spells.
 [Signed w. N. BROWN, President Central Bimetallic League
 of Shelby County