Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-03-12

be promptly called down by the
people in the fall of 1896.
AMERICAN BIMETALLIC LEAGUE.
Washington, Mich. THE exec
utive committee Of the American
B%imetallic league has issued a call,
an "address to the people of the
United States" for the formation
Of a new party TO promote the free
coinage Of gold and silver at the
ratio of Is to /. The address after
a long pramble, says:
1t is believed there is now aud
has been for thirty years a large
majority of the voters inthe Unit
ed States in favor of restoring
the free coinage of both gold and
silver, but the opportunity to vote
their convictions has never been
given them, and their will has
been continually thwarted by par
ty chicanery. there has not been
a congress for twenty years which,
except for the influence of execu-
tive patronage or fear Of an execu-
tive veto, would not have voted to
open the minis again to silver on
the same terms as to gold. In
deed, each house of congress has
at different times separately pass
ed free coinage bills, but this ac-
ton has as often been frustrated
by party manipulation. 1t is as
necessary therefore to have a pres
ident IN sympathy with the cause
as to have a congress in favor of it.
This great cause will never be
won without unanimous action.
1t will never be won unless those
who believe in it come together
and elect a congress and a presi-
dent on this issue. There is no
hope whatever that the republican
party, as a party, will change its
policy, give up the gold standard
and restore the bimetallic stand
ard. There are no grounds for
such hope, end we believe they
are deluded who look for such a
change in policy by this party.
The republican party Is commit
ted by its leaders, by its record,
and by the press behind it, to the
gold standard, supported by gold,
and the retirement of the green
backs and the surrender Of the
issue and the control of paper
money to the banks.
No less persistent and effective
Is the control of the money power
over the organization of the demo-
cratic party. While undoubtedly
a large majority of the members
of That party r opposed to the
gold standard they have been
powerless to control that party
organization against it and much
less to secure through it restora-
ton of the blmetalllc standard.
While this is the case it eau
not be expected that republicans
will abandon convictions of a life
time on other questions and go
into a democratic party in a body,
or into the wing of that party.
Nor will the democrats give up
convictions they believe to be es-
sential in government and 90 over
TO the republican party or a diyi-
sion Of that party. Nor is it posi-
bic to induce republicans and dem
ocrats together to go into the pop
ulist party for the reason, if no
other, that the platform of that
party contains declarations and the
party advocates theories TO which
they cannot give their assent
But We must in some way come to-
gether on this issue, or the cause
is lost, and with it the independ-
ence of the people. No old party
ever carried through a great re-
form.
New bottles for new wine.
Therefore no course seems posi-
bic other than that to subordinate,
for the time being, other questions
and come to the front in a new or
ganization TO fight the battle of
1896 on the one great issue on
which the prosperity and happi-
ness Of the people 80 largely de-
pend. II is believed that this
cause can be won in 10 other way,
and that to continue to contend
for it only within the lines Of the
existing parties is to court defeat
at the outset aud 10 lose the bat