Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-03-06

idleness, of abundance and happiness
| instead of want and misery.
| There can be no doubt, moreover,
| that a return TO the standard of gold
and silver will promote in the highest
| degree the business interests of the
entire country; while the continuance
of the present policy must necessarily
be attended by further fall of prices,
| lmperilling business enterprises still
more, and prolonging indefinitely the
| present stagnant condition OF trade
and industry. Better prices
UNDER EXISTING CONDITIONS
cannot be expected. A debtor nation
cannot maintain an even level of
| prices with creditor nations. The sin
gle gold standard can be maintained in
the United States only by forcing
down the price level of commodities
here enough below the price level Of
| other countries to turn gold this way,
or at any rate, to induce our creditors
TO take commodities of us for what
we owe them instead of demanding
gold. This condition of things cannot
| be overcome by tariffs, much less by
/ free trade. In the payment of annual
dues to other countries, with Argen-
tine. with Egypt, with India, with all
the colonies of Great Britain and worst
J Of all, with Asiatic races. With in
| dustries stimulated as never before
by the low price of silver, these condl-
tions from which there is no escape as
| long as the gold standard policy is
pursued, intensity the gravity of the
| situation in this country to such an
extent as to compel the serious atten-
| tion of all patriotic citizens. 1t is es-
timated that already the rise of gold
| by increasing debts has absorbed from
| forty to fifty thousand
MILLIONS OF THE WORLDS
WEALTH.
The Inauguration of a movement for
relief from these inthralling condi-
tions must spring from the people.
This cause is the cause of the people,
and it is believed that it more pro-
| foundly concerns the welfare of the
great body of the people than any ques-
tion since the civil war, if not, indeed,
since our independence was gained;
for in its ultimate outcome, The ques-
| ton of a sufficiency or scarcity OF
money is a question of freedom or serf-
dom for the mass of the people.
It is believed that the United States
! has power enough in the commercial
world to alone restore the link be-
tween gold and silver, broken in 1873,
but, should gold for any reason tenn
| pOrarily go at apremium, it will none
the less operate on prices generally,
and certainly a premium on gold here
would, like a fall in the gold price of
silver to silver countries, injure on
every side to the advantages Of the
United States.
Fellow citizens, the power is still in
your hands to right by the ballot the
great wrong of 1873, and to save your
selves and your children from the
thralldom which the gold standard pol
icy, if persisted in, will surely
BRING UPON YOU AND THEM.
We pray you. therefore, not to let
| the settlement of this question go be-
yond the election of 1896, but, subOrdi-
mating all questions for the time being
to this, the supreme issue, settle this
now, and settle it forever.
And we especially urge upon YOU the
| importance of immediate organization
| in townships and counties throughout
| the entire country, for the purpose OF
carrying on this great movement for
the common good of all.
(Signed by the following Executive
Committee appointed by the Bi-metal-
lie Conference called at Washington,
February %, 1889
A. J. WARNER,
Pres. American Bi-Metallic League,
Chairman.
JOHN p. JONES,
United States Senate.
WILLIAM NJ. STEWART,
United States Senate.
J. L. M'LAURIN,
of South Carolina.
ANSON WALCOTT,
of Indiana.
GEORGE c. MERRICK.
| of Colorado.
HENRY JONES.
of Georgia.
J. c. GREEN,
of California.
JOSEPH SHELDON,
of Connecticut.
c. J. HILLVER.
of the District of Columbia.
BYRON E. SPEAR,
of Colorado.
MORTIMER WHITEHEAD,
of New Jersey.
If the conference had authority from
The people to name a candidate for
President, it would name Joseph c.
Sibley, of Pennsylvania, but not hav-
ing such authority, it can only suggest
the name and invite expressions from
the people by petitions, resolutions or
otherwise, believing that nominations,
when made, should reflect in the most
direct manner the will Of the people.
uncontrolled by caucus machinery or
by professional politicians.
Petitions or letters endorcing this
view should be addressed to General
A. ]. Warner. Chairman of the EXecu-
tive Committee, American Bimetallic
Party, Sun Building, Washington, ID.
c.
A committee of one was appointed
20 select a provisional national COM
mittee to consist Of one member from
each State and Territory and the Dis
trict of Columbia, to take charge of
this movement in the several States
and Territories.
It is understood that it is the desire
of the League that Republican
should receive the nomination for Vice
President.
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