Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-03-07
SILVER THE ISSUE.
The American Bimetallic League Is-
sues It's Call for o New
Political Party.
Why the Old Parties Will Not Fill the
Bill-A Presidential Possibility
from Pennsylvania.

committee of the American Bimetalli
league has issued its call, an 'address t,
the people of the United States," for tn
formation of a new party to promote th
free coinage of gold and silver at th
ratio of 16 to 1. The address after Ions
preamble, says:
1t 1s believed there is now and ha
been for thirty years large majority O.
the voters in the United States in favor o
restoring the free coinage of bothgold ane
silver, but the opportunity to vote thei
convictions has never been given them
and their will has been continually
thwarted by party chicanery. There haf
not been congress for twenty years
which, except for the influence of execu
tive patronage or the fear of an executive
veto, would not have voted to open the
mints again to silver on the same terms
as to gold. Indeed, each house of con.
gress has at different times separately
passed free coinage bills, but this action
has as often been frustrated by
PARTY MANIPULATION.
1t is as necessary therefore to have a
president in sympathy with the cause as
to have congress in favor of it.
This great cause will never be won
without unanimous action. 1t will never
be won unless those who believe in il
come together and elect congress and a
president on this issue. There is no hope
whatever that the Republican party, as a
party, will change its policy, give up the
gold standard and restore the bimetallic
standard. There are no grounds for such
hope, and We believe they are deluded
who look for such a change of policy by
this party.
THE REPUBLICAN, PARTY
is committed by it's leaders, by its record,
and by the press behind it, to the gold
standard, supported by gold bonds, and
to the retirement of the greenbacks and
the surrender of the issue and control of
paper money to the banks.
No less persistent and effective is the
control of the money power over the or
ganization of the Democratic party.
While undoubtedly large majority of
the members of that party are opposed
to the gold standard they have been
powerless to control that party organiza-
tion against it and much less to secure
through it the restoration of the bimetal-
lie standard.
While this is the case it can not be ex-
pected that Republicans will abandon
convictions of lifetime on other ques-
tions and go into Democratic party in
body, or into the wing of that party.
Nor will Democrats give up convictions
they believe to be essential in govern
ment and go over to the Republican
party or division of that party. Nor is
it possible to induce Republicans and
Democrats together to 20 into
THE PoPuL1sr PARTY
for the reason, if no other, that the plat
form of that party contains declarations
and the party advocates theories to which
they can not give their assent. But we
must, in some way, come together on this
issue, or the cause is lost, and with it the
of the people. No old
party ever carried through greater re-
form.
New bottles for new wine. Therefore
no course seems possible other than that
to subordinate, for the time being, other
questions and come to the front in new
to fight the battle of 1896
on the one great issue on which the pros
perity and happiness of the people so
largely depend. 1t is believed that this
cause can be won in no other way, and
that to continue to contend for it only
within the lines of the existing parties is
to court defeat at the outset and to lose
the battle in the election.
Tho nurnOso pf thia poovaroanA ;r -
to array section against section, class
against class, nor to require anybody to
give up his conyictions on the questions
or to sever his party relations for a pur-
pose other than to unite in a common
cause, the cause of justice against injus-
tice; of prosperity against adversely; of
employment of labor instead
of forced idleness; of abundance and hap
piness against want and misery.
Politicians never institute great re-
forms, and it were idle to wait for them.
This cause is the cause of the people, and
it is believed that it more profoundly
concerns the welfare of the great body of
The people than any question
SINCE THE OWL WAR
il not, indeed, since our independence
was gained; for in its ultimate reform the
question of the sufliciency or scarcity of
money is question of freedom. or serf-
dom of the mass of the people.
While not unmindful of the interests of
The people of other countries on this
question, it is not an issue that can be
safely submitted to the decision of
foreign governments, or be made to de-
pend on what other countries may do.
When our monetary system was estab-
ished over hundred years ago, with a
population less than 100000, our fathers
lid not wait for or invite the concurrence
,f other powers. Nor did the trainers of
The constitution contemplate any such
action. They legislated for the United
States, and we now, as Americans, must
egislate for ourselves.
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