Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1895-11-02
THE FARMERS AND SILVER.
A Representative Gathering Declares
Against 1t.


Against 1t.
Farmers of the United States have
been holding n national congress in
Atlanta. The body is supposed to be
made up of representative farmers
from all parts of the country. The
delegates, IL is understood, represent
farmers of the kind that cultivate the
soil and not of the kind, generally
speaking, that cultivate political jobs.
Therefore, their action on the silver
question may be accepted as n fair ex
preston of the views of representative
American farmers.
\ resolution was reported favorably
from the committee on resolutions on
the silver question. The dispatch does
not report the resolution in full, but
states that in substance it deprecates
the present condition of finance in this
country and calls upon the president to
take steps looking to the assembling of
congress of all nations willing to unite
in the equal use of both gold and silver.
The free silver delegates proposed to
amend the final clause so as to read
willing to unite in the equal use of
Dotll Soll nv Il idIio hot W
ceed 16 to l." Upon a vote by states the
amendment was rejected by 1O4 SID yeas
| to 251 OLA nays. Less than one-third
of the delegates, it will be seen, voted
for the amendment. Later in the day
a resolution declaring opposition to any
further issue of bonds or interest-bcar
ing notes was voted down.
Taking these votes together, they sig
nifty n number of things in regard to the
attitude of the farmers congress: First,
that the delegates are practically agreed
upon the proposition that n bimetallic
standard is desirable il practicable; I;
| second. that it is not practicable with
out international cooperation; third,
that it would be folly for this country
to dictate a ratio in inviting other ma
tions to join in a conference, and that
the question of ratio is one to be settled
| by the conference in view of existing
facts and probabilities; fourth, that the
delegates are in favor of maintaining all
| forms of our currency at par with gold
coin under all circumstances. This is
plainly implied by the defeat of the res
olutions opposing the issue of interest
bearing bonds and notes.
In action by n national farmers con-
vention signifying all this there is not
much comfort for the Harvey sort OF
tinanciers, while there is much to con.
firm the statement of Secretary Car
lisle that 1.-The free coinage movement
has lost it's momentum and is no longer
formidable or aggressive" Regarding
the vote on the 16 to 1 amendment the
dispatch says: "Georgia's delegation
was divided. The states known as the
silver states favored the amendment
and the east, the north and the south
voted almost solidly against it."
The vote of the southern delegates
will cause some surprise. 1t has beer
pretty generally supposed that south
erners, and especially southern farm
ers, were wild for free silver at 16 to l
if not for free paper at million or 81
to one. The attitude of southern mel
in congress has contributed to produc'
this impression. In certain quarters
it has not been believed that southern
farmers were so much charmed by th
voice of the cheap-money siren as wa
represented. But TO the friends o
sound money generally the statemen
that the southern representatives n
Atlanta voted almost solidly agains
the 16 to 1 scheme will come as a revela
tion and relief.--Chicago Chronicle.