West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1896-08-06

10 me chairman OF ne NeW orr
State County Organizations Of the
National .SiIUer Party and the
District Organizations Of the
Young Democracy:
An effort is being made at the
prese time by the Obi Me-
tallic" League of London, England,
to influence public opinion in the
United States in favor of the cleo.
ton Of Mr. Mckinley. We do not
want any advice on this subject
from foreigners aud we resent it
with patriotic indignation.
The British Obi Me- taIlic
League is an enemy in the disguise
of friend 1t consists Of Messrs.
Gibbs, Grenfell, Lauderdale and
five other ex-goyernors, directors
and ex. directors of the Bank of
England, besides several hundred
shareholders, dependents and
friends of that powerful institution.
These gentleman, finding large
silver sentiment in England, es-
pecially in Lancashire and among
the classes interested in the East
India trade, conceived the ingenious
idea Of forming League devoted
to what they called "International"
bi.metallism, into which League
they invite all the friends of Sill
yer and there paralize and render
abor,ive their demands for the res
toration of silver money in En-
gland, by postponing the reform
to the impossible day when it
should be simultaneously adopted
by the commercial nations of the
world. Thus far this scheme has
succeeded but too we'll All the
advocates of Silver money in En-
land--and they number many
thousands of influential people
have been induced, in the hope of
currency reform, to join this de-
lNsive League, though in doing so,
they have in fact postponed such
reform to the Greek calends. Some
of them, detecting the cheat, are
backing out of the League but
their discovery of its artful charac-
ter comes too late. The surrepti-
tous alteration of the British mint
laws in 1870 10y which the Queen S
perogatiye to full legal tender Sill
yer coins by proclamation, was de-
stroyed), an alteration affected by
Mr.. Crawford. then Governor of
the Bank, cannot now be undone.
The Lancaster Cotton Trade mas
gone to India and British influences
in the Orient generally, has receiv-
ed fatal check.
Having pulled the wool over the
eyes of their own countrymen, the
managers of the Bank and the
League are now turning their at.
tentlon to the United States. They
are spreading their baneful "Inter-
national" literature all over the
country it should be consigned to
the paper basket. They are pa
rading Professor Walker as an
American who is friendly to the
reconciliation of Silver he is
nothing Of the sort. His recent
declaration (London cable dispatch.
es dated July that elf bi.me.
tallic(lnternationaD convention was
proposed to the United States by
the principal Sound money men
in Europe, the Americans would
tumble head over heels in welcom.
ing the proposal" is little less
than an insult to the people of the
United States, who in their great
popular conventions, namely those
Of the Democratic, The Populists and
the National Silver Party. have
again and again expressly repudiat-
cd this artful foreign hercsy, aud
demanded the free coinage of Sill
yer dollars at the ratio Of 10 to 1,
Independent Of any other nation
Money is an institution Of law
and to cmbaruss it regulation and
stability 10y foreign treaties might
lead to an impairment of The soycr.
eign power. Such impairment has
hefallen nearly every State that ho.
hitherto entered into such treaty
Scientific men have shown that i'm
tornationol monetary unions can
only bcneGt the capitalist States