St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-06
NEW PARTY IDEAS.
The BimetalliStS Come to the
Front With an Address to
the People.
FINANCES THE ONE ISSUE.
And the One Plank Unlimite !
and Free Coinage Of
Silver
FINANCES THE ONE ISSUE.
ON ASIXTEEN TO ONE BASIS
Regardless Of Whatever Ac-
ton Foreign Powers
go
May Take.

WASHINGTON, March 5.-The
following was issued today by the
American Bimetallic league:
"A statement of the issues on
which the new party will organize:
The money question is now indis-
putably the dominant issue in the
United States, and will remain until
settled, and settled rightly. Other
questions, however important, must
wait for this, which, to a greater
or less extent, involves all others.
The issue is between the gold stand
ard, gold bonds and bank currency
on the one side, and the bimetallic
standard, no bonds and government
currency on the other
"FirSt-On this issue we declare
ourselves to be unalterably opposed
to the single gold standard, and de-
mand the immediate return to the
constitutional standard of gold and
silver, by the restoration by this
government independently of any
foreign power, of the unrestricted
coinage of both silver and gold into
standard money at the ratio of 16
to l, and upon terms of exact equal
1ty; the silver coin to be a full legal
tender, equal with gold, with all
debts and dues, public and private
'Second-We hold that the power
to control and regulate a paper cur
c nc hi
to coin money; and hence that all
currency intended to circulate as
money Should be issued and it's vol
ume controlled by the general gov
eminent only, and should be legal
tender.
"Third-We are unalterably OBJ
posed to the issue by the United
States of Understanding bonds in
time of peace, and demand the pay
ment of all coin obligations of the
United States as provided by exist
ing laws, in either gold or silver coin,
at the option of the government, and
not at the option of the creditor.
ION this issue we appeal from the
d1ctation of the money power to the
intelligence OF the American people.
ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE.
1.-The signers of the declaration Of
independence held that a decent re-
spect for opinions of mankind re-
CURED that reasons should be given
for dissolving the bonds that had
bound the colonies to Great Britain.
So we, who find it necessary to sever
relations with the political parties
with which we have hitherto acted
and form new alliances in common
cause, deem it proper that some of
the reasons which impel us to this
action should be submitted to the
candid public.
The monetary reform for which we
"contented as above set forth is, in our
judgment, so vital to the common
welfare and so necessary to a return
to conditions of prosperity in this
country as to prelude longer delay in
| the inauguration of a movement the
| purpose Of which is to bring together
! all who believe in the necessity of the
| proposed reform, for this object and
this alone. Those in favor of the gold
| standard are, and have been united in
| purpose and action. Party lines do
not divide them when this issue is
raised. Differences on other questions
| are then laid aside and together they
| in well beseeming ranks march a
| long way
ION the other hand, those who are in
| favor of return to the constitutional
| standard of gold and silver are split
into as many divisions as there are
| parties. Silver Republicans from the
| West and South, and to the great de-
light of the leaders of the Republican
| party, insist on contending for their
cause only within the lines of that
| party; and Southern and Western
| Democrats, earnest silver men, equally
to the delight of the leaders of the
| Democratic party, continue the con-
! test on their part only within the lines
of the Democratic party. In other
| words the advocates of the bimetallic
standard, through the unrestricted
coinage of silver as well as gold, now
contend for their cause in organiza-
! tons which are controlled by the gold
party. Hence, however Jealous in the
cause one may be, no results are pos
sible because his party refuses to
| to be carried out. 1t is believed that
there are now and have been for TWEEN
ty years a large majority of the
voters in the United States in favor of
RESTORING FREE COINAGE
of both gold and silver, but the oppor-
tunity to vote their convictions has
never been given them. and their will
has been continually thwarted by party
chicanery. There has not been a con-
gress within twenty years which, eX-
! cept for the influence of executive pat
ronage or the fear of an executive
veto, would not have voted to open
the minis again to silver on the same
terms as to gold. Indeed, each house
! of congress has at different times sep
arately passed free coinage bills, but
their action has often been frustra ted
by party manipulation. 1t is as neces-
sary therefore to have a president in
sympathy with the cause as to have
a congress in favor of it.
But enough has been said to show
the impossibility of gaining our cause
as long as we remain divided, or fight
only in the ranks of the gold party, or
in organizations controlled by the adj
vocates of the gold standard. AS well
might our fathers have expected to
win the independence of the colonies
if, while contending for the cause of
liberty, they had refused to separate
from the Tories. Independence could
,levet have bt en- won by fighting for
| liberty in British regiments.
NO HOPE FROM THE G. o. P.
Sand, fellow citizens, this great