The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1895-06-01
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Issued by the Timetable League of Ten.
nessee Against the Gold MonOmetallists-
A Convention Called to Formulate Some
Definite Plan of Euture Action.

Issued by the BimetalIie League of Ten.
i nessee Against the Gold MOnOmetallists-
A Convention Called to Formulate Some
Definite Plan of Future Action.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, May 27.-The BIZ
metallic league of Tennessee has issued
the following pronunciamento:
To tile People Of the United States:
The arch enemies of the agricultural
and producing classes of our country,
moved by greed and encourage by
a~varice. 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 pirate "hOneSt money"
Approaching our aversion to paternal-
-. -l4- -.,- 41n w mont nl1TSf
go out of the banking business" They
hope and believe that we will not stop
to consider that to exac 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 mot honest"
They expect the American people to
accept as true the statement that the
money of the constitution estab-
lished by the fathers is dishonest
for no other asO ave the die
tate of their illustriOus accomplices
and plastic tools. They hope that the
: people will ignorantly cOnfound the
I. sovereign p~rerogative and the bOunden
duty of the government to coin money
and establish a system of uniform
weights and measures, with the buSl-
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 toll
, ing masses of our people may be saved
from an industrial serfdOm more cruel
\ and degrading than chattel slavery,
something must be lone to meet their
cunningly-directed and insidious as
J." saults. Eternal vigilance is the price
: of liberty" Our foe is INSCRIPTIONS
= his greatest victory was achieved by
9 stealthy and corrupt Legislative leger
demain, disgraceful to the men whc
u planned it and discreditable 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, 1t has
been deemed expedient to call together
a convention to assemble at Memphis
>. on the 18th and 18th days of June,
y 1895. Every community, every city
and town and every state in the UnloI
. are earnestly requested and cordially
{ invited to send delegates to that con
" vention. Every vicinity is urged t.
organize bimetallic clubs and every
ID club should be represented. 1t Il
l proposed that this convention shall
Il voice the sentiments of the people
l. Their country needs their best thought
e their most careful elaboration and en-
:. ergetic action.
II They have no money to employ hire
u ling emissaries to drum up delegates
D from cotton exchanges and boards o
~ trade. Their own intelligent patri
o. otism is the only fund to which the.
can appeal.
The object of this convention is t
i formulate some definite plan of futur
- action: to give direction to the over
~ whelming public sentiment favorlng
. return to our OWL and establishing
our independence of alien financial in
T. situations: to devise means for such
ot campaign of education that it here
t after will be impossible to elect onl.
lie such men to the Legislative and eS
IN e~cutive offices of the nation as are IN
m awed by power and unbought b.
!" spoils.
[Signedl w. \. BROWN
n President Central Bimetallic Leagu
Of Shelby County.
al ID. II. ARCHIBALD, Secretary.
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