Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-05-28
A STRONG APPEAL.
Urgent Cali to the PeOple-lhe Free
Coinage Congress to Meet
at Memphis.

Memphis, Tenn, May 2S.--The follow
ing address to the public issued by tht
Central BimetaIic league at Memphis ex
plains itself:
To the People of the United States:
The arch enemies of the agricultural
and producing classes Of our country
moved by greed and encouraged by &
price, have conspired to transfer the
essentially governmental function of is
suing and controlling the money volume
of the nation to a system of banking cor
porations, full of the vice of class legis-
lation, and void of any virtue which COM
mends it to the consideration of patri-
otto citizen.
| Undaunted by the failure to secure the
sanction of they American congress, the
promoters of the nefarious scheme have
boldly taken the initiatory step to attain
the object of their conspiracy. Backed
by the great power of exhaustless wealth,
and the influence of high official position,
they have publicly convened in the city
of Memphis and openly declared their
purpose. The demand that the consttu-
tional and inherently sovereign right to
issue money be delivered into their hands
they hesitate at no deception, they scruple
at no fraud. Knowing the innate integ-
rity of our people they prate of "honest
money" Approaching our aversion to
paternalism, they say 'the government
must go out of the business" They hope
and believe that we will not stop and
consider that exactly dollar which by
vicious legislation they have made to
cost the debtor twice as much labor and
double the amount of produce as the one
promised is not "honest." Ttey expect
the American people to accept as true the
statement that the money of the constitu-
tion established by their fathers is dis
honest, for no other reason save the die
tates of their illustrious accomplices and
plastic tools. They hope that the people
will ignorantly confound the sovereign
prerogative and the bounden duty of the
government to coin money and establish
system of uniform weights and measures
with the business 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 govern.
ment shall go out of the banking bust.
ness" 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 conspir-
acy with failure, that the toiling masses
of our people may be saved from serf-
dom more cruel and degrading than chat
tel slavery, something must be done to
meet their cunning and insidious assaults.
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.
Our foe IL unscrupulous. His greatest
victory was achieved by stealthy and
corrupt legislative legerdemain, disgrace
full to the men who planned il and dis
creditable to the peoples representatives
who failed to detect it. The crime of
1873 can not be explained upon any
other hypothesis.
That the people may come together
and take counsel of each other it has
been deemed expedient to call together
a convention to assemble at Memphis on
the 12th and 18th days of June, 1895.
Every community, every city and town
and every state in the Union are earnestly
requested and cordially invited to send
delegates to this convention. Every
vicinity is urged to organize bimetallic
clubs, and every club should be repre-
sented. 1t is proposed that the conven-
tion shall voice the sentiments of the
people. Their country needs their best
thought, their most careful deliberation
and energetic action. They have no
money to employ hireling emissaries 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 de-
finite plan of future action to give direc-
tion to the overwhelming volume of pub
lie sentiment favoring return to our
land and establishing cur independence
of alien financial institutions, to devise
means for such campaign of education
that hereafter it will be impossible to
elect only such men to the legislative
and executive offices of the nation as are
unawed by power and unbought by spoils.
w. A. Brown,
President Central Bimetallic League of
Shelby County.
D. H. ARCHIBALD, Secretary.