The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-27
PLANS FOR A CAMPAIGN.
Every Community Urged to
Send Delegates to the
Convention.
TO CONCENTRATE THE VOTE.
The Securing of Organized Action
One Object Of the Proposed
Gathering.

MEMPHIS, TENN, May 26.-The follow
ing address to the public issued by the
Central Bimetallic League at Memphis
explains itself:
To the People of the United States: The arch
enemies of the agricultural and productive
classes of our country, moved by greed and
encouraged by price, have conspired to trans
fer the essentially governmental function of
issuing and controlling the money volume OF
the nation to system of banking corporations,
full of the vice of class legislation and void of
any virtue which commends it to the consid-
Grafton of a patriotic citizen.
Undaunted by the failure to secure the sane
ton OF the American Congress, the promoters
OF the nefarious scheme have boldly taken the
initiatory step to attain the object of their con-
spiracy. Backed by the great powers of ex
haustless wealth and the influence of high Off
cial position, they have publicly convened in
the city of Memphis and openly declared their
purpose. They demand that the constitutional
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 integrity OF our people,
they prate of s'honest money" Approaching
our aversion to paternalism, they say "the
Government must go out of the banking bust
ness" They hope and believe that we will not
stop to consider that an exact dollar, which by
vicious legislation they have made to cost the
debtor twice as much labor and double the
amount of the produce as the one promised, is
not "honest." They expect the American peo-
pie to accept as true the statement that the
money Of the constitution established by our
fathers is dishonest, for no other reason save
the dictate of their illustrious accOmplices and
plastic tools. They hope that the people will
ignorantly confound the sovereign prerogative
and the bound duty of the Government to coin
money and establish a uniform system of
weights and measures with the loans and dis
count inherently appropriated to the Occupa-
ton of the private citizen.
They think that we will forget the true cues
ton is not "whether the Government shall 90
out of the banking business" but whether the
banks shall go out of the governing business.
Thus they design, by the aid of apathy, to rivet
the chains which viii make freemen slaves
To the end that their hopes may meet with
disap pointment and their conspiracy with fall
ure, that the tofling masses Of our people may
be saved from an industrial serfdom more cruel
and degrading than chattel slavery, something
must be done to meet their cunning and insid-
ious assaults. Eternal vigilance is the price
of liberty. Our foe is INSCRIPTIONS. His great
est victory was achieved by stealthy and cor
rupt legislative legerdemain, disgraceful to
the men who planned it and discreditable to
the peoples representatives who failed to de-
teat it. The crime of 1878 cannot be explained
upon any other hypothesis.
That the people may come together and take
counsel Of each other, it has been deemed ex-
pedient to call together convention to as
semble at Memphis on the 18th and 18th days
of June, 1895.
Every community, every city and town and
every State in the Union are earnestly re-
quested and cordially invited to send delegates
to this convention Every vicinity is urged tn
organize bimetallic clubs, and every club
should be represented.
1t is proposed that the convention shall
voice the sentiments of the people. Their
country needs their best thought, their DELHI
GRAFTON and energetic action. They have no
money to employ hireling emissaries to drum
up delegates from the cotton exchanges and
boards of trade. Their own intelligent patriot
ism is the only fund to which they can ap.
peal.
The object of this convention is to formulate
some definite plan of future action; to give
direction to the overwhelming vote of public
sentiment favoring a return to and estab-
fishing our independence of alien financial in
stitutions; to devise means for such campaign
OF education that hereafter it will be pos
sible to elect only such men to the legislative
and executive Offices of the nation as are un.
awed by power and unbought by its spoils.
w. A. BROWN,
President Central Bimetallic League of Shelby
County. D. Fl. ARCHIBALD, Secretary.