The evening world., 1895-05-18
SILVER MEN NOW OPEN FIRE.
Demand Free Coinage Of Gold
and Silver at l6 to l.
Free Legal Tender Functions TO
Each and No Favors.

SALT LAKE CITY. Utah, May 49,
The silver conference just before ad-
journment unanimously adopted the fol-
lowing report OF the Committe on Reso-
lutions and Address:
'To the People Of the United States:
I'VE desire to say that the people
whom we represent are not an aggre-
gation OF thieves seeking to swindle
honest creditors with 50-cent dollars.
There are no more patriotic citizens Of
the American Republic than those ac-
tive, earnest energetic men, and who
have left the comforts OF their Eastern
homes to build the highways Of Ma
tional progress In tho far West II
they believed that the complete restora-
tlon OF silver would operate as an in
jury to the country as whole or an
Injustice to any class regardless OF its
local effect In this Western region.
they would at once and forever abandon
the demand.
The greatest good to the greatest
number IL their motto. and 1t Is In this
Affiliations. present themselves almost
as a unit demanding the free coinage
Of silver and gold at the ratio OF 10 to !,
with full legal tender functions accorded
to each, and no discrimination against
ut is not as silver miners. but citi-
sens Of the Republic mindful. OF its
every Interest. tina, we take this po-
1.-The representatives from California.
Oregon and Wyoming. which produce
little Or no silver, feel that that their SS people
monetization of that metal as those
living in any state or Territory In which
silver-mininH Is a leading industry.
I'm making this demand we are
asking for nothing new. The monetary
system Of this country was founded not
uDon gold alone: not upon silver alone,
but upon both silver and gold at GER
tain ratio to each other, without linn
itation upon the coinage of either. ana
each standing upon an equal footing
before the law.
ton. sanctioned by Washington and JEFF
ferson. its wisdom and Justice qucs-
toned Iy none, until the year ls,i.
when. without notice to the people the
from the coinage of the country and
every debt therein existing. public and
private. aggregating thousands and
millions of dollars. was made payable
In gold alone.
"Men who have Intelligence enough TO
comprehend its significance and still
oppose the undoing of that wrong
should be exceedingly careful how they
accuse other people of dishonesty.
1T was tho great money power Of
the world that thus stealthily destroyed
the time -honored monetary system Of
control vast sums of money and debts
payable In money. understood that II
silver he destroyed by stopping its coin
age, and limiting its lagal-tender quail
ity. their claims thus being payable in
gold or its equivalent. would thus be-
| come more available They understood
perfectly that a gold dollar with silver
dollar by its side. sharing its functions
and meeting part OF the demands. was an
entirely different measure Of values
from, what that gold dollar would be
standing alone. They knew that by the
inexorable law of supply and demand
the value of gold must Inevitably rise
while the value of every other species OF
property must as certainly fall.
This IL exactly what has taken pla ce.
The business of the world Ia done upon
money basis. 1t Is measured In terms
OF money"
The following Executive Committee
was chosen: Colorado, =. n. Light;
iaanS nscnonr on Montana pSam ,Al'rT,"' Mrr,i h NJ
New Mexico. l., Bradford Prince: Ore
yon. sydney Bell: Washington. w. Z.
James; Wyoming. +. W. Mandell, and
Utah. II. {. Chambers.