Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-19

necessary departure from party organiZa-
ton, the people have this righ: and will
exercise it until old parties shall return to
the truth or new parties shall be created to
effect it into law.
If the voices which have sounded to us
from every state in this Union are an in
dication of the real feeling, this year is the
appointed time for the people to assert
themselves. through such mediums as NAV
give best promise of the achievement of
justice. But. whether we are mistaken or
not concerning the general sentiment in
the United States. we have not mistaken
our own duty in withdrawing from the re-
publican convention, feeling it is better to
be right and with the minority in apparent
defeat than to be wrong with the majority
in apparent triumph
None tary Reform the First Requisite
We hold that in the great work of social
evolution in this country monetary reform
stands as the first requisite. No policy,
however promising of good results, can
take its place. Continuation during the
next four years upon the present financial
system will bring down upon the American
people that cloud of impending evil to
avert which should be the first thought of
statesmen and the first prayer of patriots
Our very institutions are at stake. Today,
with the rapidly increasing population,
with widely swelling demands, the basis of
cur money is relatively contracting and
the people are passing into a servitude all
ically apparent. The nation itself us to
other nations is losing the sturdy courage
which could make it defiant in the face of
injustice and internal wrong. From the
1armer and the tradesman to the govern
roent there is apparent the shrinking from
giving offense lest the vengeance of some
ofended financial power should descend
ihe business man submits some portion of
ms Judgment and his will, and the nation
submits some portion of its international
riSht. lest some mighty foreign creditor
shall make destructive demands. Where
VIII this end if the people shall decline to
assert themselves? Where will it end If the
older parties, in their determination to
maintain themselves in power for powers
sake alone, shall refuse to recognize the
right and the hope of humanity? This
country cannot much longer exist free and
independent against all the rest of the
world, nor can It's people much longer be
free in the noble sense of the term if the
nlted States, debtor nation shall fol-
low policy dictated by creditor nations
we produce all of the necessaries of life.
Other nations consume our product. In
the race for existence it is constant
struggle between producer and consumer
our present system of money deliberately
submits to the desire and the profit of
creditor nations, leaving us in the mass
and as individuals prey to the money
gathering and the deadly cheapening of the
CID world AS the debt to creditors abroad
increases OH the masses of the nation the
price of human production on the farm
and In the workshop is decreased with ap-
pallinS rapidity, eXacting more and more
tell from our citizens to meet the given de-
mand, and holding over their heads a threat
OF the day when confiscation to meet their
obligations will leave them bare and de-
fenseless- The only remedy is to stop
falling prices-the deadliest curse of ma
tonal life. Prices never will cease falling
under the single gold standard. The res
toration of bimetallsm by this country
Will double the basis of our money system
In time 1t Will double the stock of primary
money OF the world-wil stop falling prices
and steadily elevate them until they will
regain their normal relation to the volume
of debts and credits in the world. Bimetal-
i1sm will help to bring about the great
nope or every social reformer, every be
lever in the advancement of the race who
realizes that the instability of prices has
Teen the deadly foe of our toilers and the
servant of the foreign interest gatherer
RimetalliSm will help to bring the time
when certain expenditure of human toll
VIII produce certain financial result.
w no among the great masses of our people
IN the United States but feels that his lot
would be made better, his aspiration take
new wings. if he could know in the per-
fcrmance of his labor what would be the
price OF his product?
Is not this purpose worth the attention
OF the people as Individuals, and worth the
attention OF political conventions vet to be
held in this year 1896? Is not this so great
an end that all who believe in the possi-
biiity OF attaining ii, by the means pro-
posed can yield something of their parti-
saEship. both in conventions and at the
polls? 1t is in the hope that the masses
and the remaining conventions will have
the courage and the generosity to unite
for this purpose that we have dared to
oHer our views to the people of the United
states, and because in the past there has
lacked rallying point for the masses who
hold as We do, to this belief we venture
an act, trusting 1t will be received in the
nf lott
hope with which we put 1t forth
Union of Men and Parties Invoked.
We nave endeavored in a plain way to
set the matter before the eyes of our fel-
low-citizens. We invoke the union of all
men and all parties who believe that the
time has come for the triumph of Justice.
1t is an hour when the people may speak
for themselves as individuals and through
conventions yet to be held. 1t is the right
of every citizen to indicate his preference
With this In view, We offer to the forth
coming conventions and to the people the
name of a man for the presidency Of the
United States whose life in public and in
private represents those distinguished vir-
tues which adorned the days and the deeds
of the earlier time Of this republic; re-
turn TO which virtues is requisite for the
prosperity and contentment of the people
ard the perpetuity and commanding ex-
ample of free institutions. That name is
Henry NJ. Teller, a man of the people and
for the people. He is Of no section. His ex-
per:eace and service, his devotion to the
common justice and the common cause of
his fellow-citiZens. has been as wide as the
country. We believe that the people of the
United States have him in their hearts as
he has had their interests in his purpose
through all the work of an exalted life
1t is not merely as the exponent of mon
etdry reform that We present this man to
the people. 1t is true that he has waged
mighty war for the restoration of the
money Of the Constitution, and his name
has been identified that of no other liv-
ing man with this great cause. But had
this service been less demanded and less
noticed in this distinction, the people would
still have recognized in him for other la
bors statesman of the purest type His
only poverty has been that of purse; in all
things else-in the generosities Of man to
man, in kindliness of deeds for his fellows,
and in the study and the doings of a
mighty career-he has been one of the most
opulent American citizens of any age. In
submitting this name to the American
people. We remind that just a generation
ago. from the heart Of the boundless west,
and touched by the finger of God, there
arose an emancipator who was powerful
in the work of human deliverance. BY his
wisdom and courage, providentially di-
rected. millions were free. and the nation
kept in its holy union. If others shall see
this opportunity as we see it, IL our fellow
citizens shall see this duty as we see it,
that sublime history may be repeated. and
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