The San Francisco call., 1895-11-16
SILVER S|NEWS OF WAR.
The Bimetallic League Somewhat
In Need of One or Both
Metals.
Rich Friends of the League Who Have
Kept Both Moneys in Their
Inside Pockets.

Ine IaCluC SOdSJ part OI tue AmeTlCdn
Bimetallic League is sounder on paper
than in fact.
In the delicate irony of its hard luck it
is somewhat in need of one or both of the
two great, useful and potential metals of
trade and commerce. The wealthy friends
of the doctrine here are multi i-metallic in
precept and anti-metallic in practice. In
the epigrammatic language of one,of the
league officers, they are strongly bimetal-
lie in the matter of keeping both kinds of
money in their inside pocket and strictly
mono metallic inthe faith when the hat is
passed around"
In fact, they have demonetized every
thing that is popularity supposed to talk
in business circles and will "make the
mare go' in the bimetallic league. So the
organization built on double metal basis
is sounder on paper than in fact.
The failure of wealth to concentrate in
the Golfers of the society is not because its
advocates have preached so zealousy
against it's concentration in Wall street and
other places W here the gold bugs do crawl,
but because the rich miners of the Com
stock and kindred lodes have neglected to
supply their share of the silver sinews of
war in any ratio. The mine-owners of
Colorado and her neighbor States raised
funds for the purpose of propounding the
principles of bimetallism, but the Pacific
Slope though rich in faith, is poor in the
work that tells. The needed coin contri-
buttons have come in reluctantly and the
cause lags for want of the two articles that
give 1t title. 1t is metallic in name only.
Consequently it is sounder on paper-but
that has been said before.
HThp friends of bImpta1liSm here have
not made their mark financially" said
Secretary Keeney OF the league yesterday
at his office in the Mills building, "and we
cannot do the work of pushing ahead as
we desire. Our general mode of operation
is mailing reading matter everywhere and
to all localities where we can find intelli-
gent readers. The expenses of this office
are not large, however, but postage upon
the great mass of matter we handle costs
money. We are not separate political
body in the same sense as the three or four
great parties, consequently we have no
county organizations, central committees,
etc. c.EWe belong as yet to them all. So the
work must be done directly from this
office, and contributions must come di-
rectly here.
'There is no denying the fact that the
great silYerites on this coast are very slow
and show decided lukeWarmness in the
faith. The bimetallist leaders East con-
slider California and Nevada able to wage
a strong fight for the cause, but they are
not doing so, and for the reason I have
mentioned. These States are full of rich
silver men, who are able but have not
given dollar, either silver, gold or paper,
TO the work"
George w. Baker, attorney-at-law in the
Mills building, a prominent bimetallist,
was equally outspoken regarding the atti-
tude of the wealthy friends of the league
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paign funds.
"There has not been that outpouring of
spirit, in a financial way, from the silver
kings here" said he, THAT we hoped to
see. We certainly won't go into bank
ruptcy with two metals in our title. Our
name should give Us some commercial
standing, unless there is great shrinkage
of values in it.. We ought to extract scme
coin from it, especially as ours is good
one and better than gold.
.'Californa is more interested in bimetal-
lsm than any other State i'll the Union
even more than Nevada, for all of her
metal comes to San Francisco. This
building and most of the great edifces of
this City are built with silver, yet the
cause languishes, in a measure, because
those who have profited most by it are
the least helpful
However, bimetallism is the voice cry
ing in the wilderness and the cure for all
the ills OF finance. Even the two great po-
litical parties are for blmetallism in a way.
The Democrats say: Look at our platform
and its free and unlimited coinage of sill
ver. What more do you want?' And the
Republicans say: Look at our silver
plank. What more do you want? A
friend recently said TO me, in the excess OF
his political zeal If you can write better
doctrine than that money plank in the
Republican State platform l wish you
would do So 1t is good, for, as matter
of fact, wrote it, but we bimetallists are
after greater recognition than that. Our
convention meets in Chicago soon, and
silver will be a co-king with gold in the
metal kingdom"
But the Pacific Coast part OF bimetallism
is somewhat in need OF one or both OF the
two great useful and potential metals OF
trade and commerce.