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woman and child since November 1,
1898. and with this vast aggree ate
contraction the price OF land and OF
manufactured goods and OF all kind
of agricultural and mercantile produce
has fallen. The public revenues have
fallen, wages of labor have fallen,
and everything on the face OF the
earth mas fallen but taxes and debts
which have burden, while on the 9th,
er hand their liquidation has been di,
minished. No nation calls itsell free
and independent that is not great
enough to establish and maintain fl
nancial system Of its own. (Great ap'
plause.)
To pretend that this foremost and
richest and most powerful nation IN
the world cannot coin its own money
without suing for an international
agreement at the courts of European
autocrats, who have none but primary
interests to subserve, has for many
years been held out at Presidential
election; have made use of such an
agreement and have failed afterwards
and we have never in our history had
an international agreement upon q
money system and none of the found,
ers of this republic ever dreamed that
such an agreement was essential. We
have had three international confer
ences in order to obtain it and to wait
longer upon them is to ignore the in
terest of our own people and degrade
our national dignity and to advertise
to all mankind our impotence and OH
folly.
The majority of this convention
maintain that this great American ma,
ton, without dependence upon Euro
pean nations for anything that they
produce, and with European nations
dependent upon much that we produce
is fully capable of restoring this con.
stitutional money system of gold and
silver. at equality with each other.
(Applause)
And as our fathers in 1776 declared
our national independence of all the
world, so today has the great Demo,
cratic party, founded by Thomas JEFF
ferson, the author of that declaration,
appeared here in Chicago to declare
the financial independence of the Unit
ed States of all other notions and:to
invoke all true Americans to assert it
by their sutfrages at the polls, that our
country may be placed where she by
right belongs as the freest, as the fore.
most, as the most prosperous and hap
py nation that ever blessed the life OF
mankind upon this globe.
When Mr.. Daniel finished and an.
nounced that the convention was
ready for business there was loud cries
for Hill. The New York Senator was
quietly eating sandwich and showed
no disposition to respond.
Senator Jones, of Arkansas, an
nounced that Oh behalf of the silver
delegates in the convention and at the
request of many of them, he would
move the adoption of the resolution.
The resolution extended the thanks OF
the convention to Chairman Harrity
for the impartial manner in which he
had presided over the convention. 1t
was adopted unanimously as was an
other resolution offered by Senator
White of California. making the rules
of the Fifty.third House of Represen-
tatives govern the deliberations OF the
convention.
The roll of States was called under
the customary practice and the selec-
tions for membership on the various
committees were announced. The del
egates and spectators began leaving
rapidly at this juncture as it was we'll
understood that the convention would
Immediately adjourn.
General E. B. Finley of the Ohio
delegation protested against the selec-
ton of committee members by contest.
ed delegations but Chairman Daniel
ruled that until the permanent organ.
ization was perfected the temporary
roll was respected.
At 4:43 p. m, on Senator Jones
motion. the convention adjourned un-
til tomorrow morning at ten o'clock.