The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-02-15
TO FIGHT .GoLD BUGs.v
POpuIist Congressmen Ask Their Fol-
lowers to Prepare for battle.

PopuIist Congressmen Ask Their Fol-
lowers to Prepare for battle.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.-THE Pcpulist
members OF the Senate and House whose
names are attached, beside the others whose
signatures are given have issued the follow
ing address to the members of the Peoples
party:
LAS early as 1866 conspiracy was en-
tered into between the gold gamblers OF Eu-
rope and America to accomplish the follow
ing purposes: To faSten upon the people OK
the United States the burdens OF perpetual
debt; TO destroy the greenhackS which had
brought us safely through the perils OF war;
to strike down silver as money metal; to
deny to the people the use of federal paper
and silver, the two Independent sources OF
money supply guaranteed by the tonstitu-
ton; to fasten upon the country the single
gold standard of Great Britain, and TO dele
gate to the thousands of banking corpora
tions, organized for private gain, the SOW
ereign control for all time over the issue
and volume of all supplemental paper cur
rency. Thus they doubled the demands for
gold, forced upon the country an appreciate
ing money standard. entaiiing an Indefinite
period OF falling prices, robbed enterprise OF
its Just profits, condemned labor to idleness
and conflscated the property of debtors.
For nearly thirty years these conspira-
tors have kept the people quarreling over
less important matters while they have pur-
sued with unrelenting zeal their one central
purpose. At the present moment every de-
vice OF treachery, every resource of state
craft and every artfice known to the secret
cabals of the international gold ring
made use of TO deal final death-blow to
the prosperity OF the country and the finan-
cfal and commercial independence of this
country. They seek to accomplish their fell
purposes before the blow be averted
through the ballot. Their plans have been
long matured and their line of action is
fully chosen. They address themselves to
the one subject-the money question--in all
its breadth and magnitude. This brings the
country face TO face with periious issue,
which calls for Immediate united action on
the part Of the people.
Every behest of patriotism requires that
we shall at once meet the issue and accept
the challenge so deflantly offered. To falter
now is to. invite disastrous failure. We
earnestly urge the Populists throughout the
country to concentrate their entire force ard
scented and thus meet the enemy upon his
operation of all persons who favor the inn
mediate free coinage of silver at the ratio
of 16 to j, the issue of all paper money byi
the general government without the inter-
vention of banks of issue, and who are OPP
posed to the issue OF interest-bearing gov
ernment bonds in time of peace. In word
to extend the hand OF fellowship to all who
agree with you upon the money question
which is certainly the mightiest and most
fundamental controversy evolved during the
present &C injury"
The address is signed by LATE Pence. O.
NJ. KEN, It. j. Hudson, William Baker w
A. McKeighan, VIM. V Allen, John Davis
W. "A. Harris, Jerry Simpson, John Bell
James III. Kyle, III. r. Boen Fl. f. Taube-
neck, j. ii. Turner and j. Il. Weaver