The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-13
THE ECAUSE GROWS
Bimetallic League of Great
Britain Is Encouraged.
"NO Party of Importance In
o.. S. FaVOrs Gold"
SURE TO PROSPER
However Election Results BIZ
metaIlism Will Finally Win.
Britishers Scored For Their
Contempt of the Cause.

London, July 13.-The Bimeta1lic
league of Great Britain held its annual
meeting today in the Canon Street no
tel. The annual report declares that
the cause of International bimetallism
has made substantial progress during
the year, both in Great Britain and
abroad.
1t mentions the resolutions adopted
by the chamber of deputies in France,
the chamber of representatives in Bel
gium and the Prussian diet declaring
for bimetallism, and continues: In
the United States all parties and classes
would welcome international bimetal-
lism. A large section of the people
there are, however, so strongly con-
WINGED of the urgent necessity for the
remOnetizing of silver that they are in
disposed to wait for internatiOnl agree
ments. No party of any Importance
in the United States faVOrS gold mono
metallism.'
The report concludes as follows: THE
responsibility for the present and grow
ing dangers to the industrial life of the
nation rests upon those who oppose
that monetary system under which our
prosperity advanced by leaps and
bounds"
A letter was read from Lord Alden
ham Ont. Henry Hucks Gibbs), presi-
dent of the league, in which he cOngrat-
ulates the members upon the great
progress which has been made in the
United States.
TT is indeed a striking fact" Lord
AIdenham wrote, that this question
which some here affect to treat with
contempt should be apparently the
main political question before nation
of seventy millions of people,
Lord Aldenham also alluded to what
he termed the ignorance of the London
press upon the subject. They joined,
he said, the chorus of honest money
believing that these words applied in
America to gold monometallism and
not, as they really are to international
bimetalliSm.
presidential election Lord Aldenham
added, I'VE may be sure that our cause
generally il prOspering.
The needing was largely attended.
Robert K. Barclay of Manchester pre-
sided. A letter Of regret was read
from A. J. BalfOur first lord of the
treasury, who said that only illness
prevented him from being present.
General Francis A. Walker of BOs-
ton, Mass, made speech which was
greeted with enthusiasm General
Walker gave a review of the silver
question from the American standpoint.
He said that the all engrossing topic
at the Republican national convention
in st. Louis was the currency. Gov
ernor Mckinley. he said, was never a
gold mOnOmetalliSt, and could not be
if he tried. General Walker read the
KohIsaat St. Louis resolution on the
currency issue and the Boston resOlu-
ton regarding the gold standard, both
of which were heartily cheered.
General Walker continued: 1T is
deeply to be regretted that millions of
our best citizens as represented at the
Chicago convention last week declared
for the free coinage of silver at the
ratio of Is to 1 without waiting for the
action of other countries. This was
done passionateIy, but the effect will
be to maintain the gold standard unim-
paired
Among the distinguished gentlemen
present were Lord Lidderdale, Sir
Tmohas Sutherland, William E, NJ.
Tomlinson, NJ. P. E. D. Scott Montague,
NJ. p H. S. Foster, MOretOn Frewen,
Lord SherbOrne, Profs. FOxweu and l.
L. Price and others.