The record-union., 1895-05-28
SILVER ADVOCATES.

Address Issued by the Central BIZ
metallic League of Memphis.
MEMPHIS (Tenn.). May 26.-The follow
ing address to the public. issued by the
Central Bimetallic League at Memphis.
explains itself:
To the people Of the United States: The
arch-enenlies OF the agricultural and pro-
ducing classes of our country have con-
splred to transfer the essentially govern
mental function of issuing and controll-
ing the money volume Of the nation to 4
system of the banking corporations, full
of the vice of the class legislation and
void of any virtue which commends 1t to
the consideration OF q patriotic citizen.
Undaunted by the failure to secure the
sanction of the American Congress, the
promoters of the nefarious scheme have
boldly taken the initiatOry step to attain
tue object of their conspiracy. Backed
bv the great power OF the exhaustless
wealth aud the influence of high of1i-
cial position, they have publicly con-
yened in the city of Memphis and openly
declared their purpose.
They demand that the constitutional
and inherently sovereign right to issue
money be delivered into their hands;
they hesitate at no deception; they scru-
pie a. no fraud. Knowing the innate in
tegrity of our people, they prate of ''hon-
est money" Approaching our aversion
to paternalism, they say The Govern
ment must go out OF the banking busi
ness" They hope and believe that we
will not stop to consider that an exact
dollar, which by vicious legislation they
have made to cost the debtor twice as
much labor aud double the amount of the
produce, as the one promised is not
''honest."
They expect the American people to
accept the statement as true that the
money OF the Constitution established by
the fathers is dishonest, for no other rea-
son save the dictate OF their iliustrious
acconiplices and plastic tools. They
hope that the people will ignorantly con-
found the sovereign prerogative and the
bounden duty of the Government 10 coin
money and establish system OF uniform
weights and measures. with the loans
and discount Inherently appropriate to-
the occu patton of the private citizen.
They think that we will forget that the
true question is not whether the Govern
ment shall GO out Of the banking busi-
ness" but whether the banks shall 60 out
OF the governing business. Thus they
design, by the aid Of the 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 tOillng masses of
our people may be saved from an in
dustrial serfdOm more cruel and degrad-
ing than chattel slavery, something must
be done to meet their cunning and in
sidious assaults. Eternal vigilance is the
price of liberty. Our foe is INSCRIPTIONS.
His greatest victory was achieved by
stealth and corrupt legislative legerde-
main, disgraceful 10 the men who planned
it and disgraceful to the peoples repre-
sentatives who failed to detect it, The
crime OF 1873 cannot be explained upon
any other hypothesis
That the people may come together
and take counsel of each other, it has
been deemed eXpedient TO cali together
convention to assemble at Memphis on
the 18th and 18th days of June, 1895.
Every community. every city and town
and every state III the Union are earn
estly requested and cordially invited to
send delegates to this convention. Every
vicinity is urged to organize bimetallic
clubs. and every club should be repre-
seuted.
1t is proposed that the convention shall
voice the sentiments of the people. Their
country needs their best thought, their
delibcration and energetic action. They
nave no money to employ emlSsaries TO
drum up delegates for the Cotton Ex-
changes and Boards OF Trade. Their own
intelligent patriotism is the only fund to
which they can appeal,
The object of this convention is to
formulate some definite plan for future
action, TO give direction to the over
whelming vote of public sentiment favor
ing d return to and establishing our inde-
pendeDce of alien financial institutions;
to devise means for such a campaign OF
education that hereafter it will be pos
sible TO elect only such men to the legis-
lative and executive offices of the Eation
as are unawed by power and unbought
by its spoil.