The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-27
LABOR'S DEMAND.

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! the restoration Of the protective tariff
(; schedule would bring back old-time
prosperity, together with old-time
prices and old-time values. The indus
WINGED that IN the settling of that issue
all would be settled. But do they;
We believe not If not, then the st.
Louis convention will be taking
| ignoring the other which seems just as
pressing. The truth seems to be that
outside Of the creditor classes and their
institutions the great mass Of people
believe that in order to have back and
to enjoy the prosperity which in being
| lost dragged down all values, we must
not only have protection. but such an
! increase in the volume Of currency as
the rehabilitation of silver would
give us.
A meeting was held last week in
| Chicago which we think is full Of polit
| zeal significance. 1t was a meeting Of
| the American heads Of the many great
labor organiza tons of the country. the
knights of Labor, United Mine Work
ers Of America, Farmers Mutual Bene-
tit association, American Federation Of
Labor, Brotherhood Of Locomotive En-
gineers, Brotherhood of Locomotive
Firemen. National Farmers Alliance
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and
Joiners, and other less important in
dustrial EXAMINATIONS. There were
present Sovereign, Hayes, Mcbride,
Debs, Arthur, Sargent, Arnold, Butler,
Mcclure, TrenOr and Others all we'll
known leaders, and their business was
TO discuss industrial conditions. When
the silver question was reached there
was entire unanimity, not dissent
ing voice. These hard-headed men
scattered to the four winds the gOldite
theory that the laboring classes and
small property owners are the real
creditors of the country, but that the
creditor class are those who ride in |
carriages, make European trips, drink |
champagne by the bucket full and eat |
pie for breakfast although they may !
represent corporation indebtedness. |
The men who compose the creditor /
class are the members of combines, |
trusts and banks. Among other things |
resolved upon was the issuance Of 100,-
900 addresses per month for free dis
tribution. In the first address is pub
lished the following signed by all the
heads of the organizations named:
Now the question IS, what do the
tens of millions of victims in this coun-
try to the diaboIcal gold standard pol
icy of Lombard and Wall streets pro-
pose doing about it? Submit to sub
jugation or demand in no uncertain
tones the immediate restoration of sill
yer as standard money? No, they viii
no longer submit to such injustice.
And, therefore, do earnestly recon-
mend the adoption OF the following
resolution:
4" We demand of the present con-
gress the immediate return to the
money of the constitution as estab-
lished by our fathers by restoring the
free and unlimited coinage Of both gold
and silver at the present ratio of Is
10 ], the coins of both metals to be
equally full legal tender for all debts,
public and private, as before the fraud
ulent decentralization Of silver in 1873.
" we also condemn the increase Of
the national debt in time Of peace and
the use of Understanding bonds at
any time"
We submit that in the face Of such
action and language, from such a
source, it behOoYes the representatives
If the Republican party, who will con-
-ene in ST. Louis in June, to carefully
consider the full meaning of this move
nent, and its probable effect at the :
'allot box in November These or
unquestionably desire and
demand the complete rehabilitation of
liver as a money metal, by the indie !
,endent action OF the United States, 5
nd the logical conclusion is they rep
esent the convictions of the vast army
which compose the industrial classes Of
he country. {