Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1895-04-26


tice to destroy the value Ct prop
erty and enhance the value of mon
ey by demonetization of silver ant
, the establishment of single golt
standard. So, that when you cal
the attention of the farmer anC
wage Garner to the fact that risin.
prices will make him pay more fov
what he buys, you should at th,
same time call his attention to tlit
fact that it would enable him e
pay his debts, free him from a
bondage in which he has been un-
Justly placed and again make him
the owner Of home and free
and Independent citizen. We might
say further to him thatrising prices
ca1se money to seek investment.
and would thus open 40 the chan
nels Ut commerce and trade and
give employment to millions now
idle. 1t is not more money that
we want to borrow. but to pay off
what we already owe. The more
we borrow the more We must pas>,
and the annual interest on all our
public and private debts ia now
more than the annual profits Of
the business and production
Where will it end?
"Our fotefathers fle FIR, m Eu-
rope and established a Government
here that they might be free from
the class Legislation of those ma
tions where the mass es are hewers
of wood and drawers of water for
the rich aud few who control the
law making power, countries that
We Justly term plutocracies; and
yet 1t is now being seriously In
sisted upon that we must adopt
and continue the most pernicious
class Legislation that the monar.
chies of Europe have ever fastened
upon their iael pless people. By
adopting their policy we have in
creased the demand for gold and
it's exchangsabie value and all
money based thereon with all other
property. We have aided them in
the adoption of a single metal for
primary money, that they can con-
troll and corner-that they have
cornered and forced you to GO to
them and get it at their own price
to sustain the credit of this great
and sourceful nation. We submit
that this policy should be aban-
doned and our mints again thrown
open to silver Gas they are now in
gold), and our stock of primary
money increased thereby.
The gentlemen who visited you
and who petiioned you represent
only one class of our people. We
respectfully submit that it was
safer that all the people should do I
the thinking for it than that any
one class should do it for them.
Selfish interests prednminate when
one class does the thinking for all.
Broad views TO justify promote the
common welfare can best be Sc
cured by census of the yIews of
the people.
1--WE agree with you that IT is
time for the people to reason to.
gether, and to that end we respect
fully ask that you make IT possible
Tor them to get printed copies OF
the act of 1892, on which our fore
fathers based our financial system,
and all subsequent acts, together
with the act of 1873, that reversed
the former policy, and acts subse
qnent thereto, as we'll as all atatis-
tical and other information of en
equal nature that bears thereon.
We but express your own opinion,
as President. when We say that all
she people should have the oppor-
tunity to investigate and inteili-
gently pass upon this question
Respectfully,
w. FL. HARVEY,
chairman Bimetallic Exeeu
tive Committee.
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