Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-01-23
THE SILVER MEN
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equally with gold. for all debts and dues,
public and private.
We hold that the power to control and reg
ulate paper currency is inseparable from
the power to coin money; and, hence, that
all currency intended to circulate as money
should be issued. and it's volume controlled
by the general government only, and should
be legal tender.
We are unalterably opposed to the issue
by the United States of interest-bearfng
bends In time of peace. and we denounce
as blunder worse than a crime the pres
ent treasury policy, concurred in by a re-
publican House, of plunging the country in
debt by hundreds of millions in the vain
attempt to maintain the gold standard by
borrowing gold; and we demand the pay
nent Of all coin obligations of the United
States, as provided by existing laws. in
either gold or silver coin, It ne option of
the government, and not at the option of
the creditor.
Whereas, the decentralization of silver in
1913, enormously increased the demand for
gold. enhancing it's purchasing power and
lowering all prices measured by that stand
! ard: and
Whereas, since that unjust and indefens-
ibie act, the prices of American products
nave fallen upon an average nearly fifty
per cent, carrying down with them proper
tionately. the money value of all other
1ormS OF property, except in peculiarly
favored localities; and
Whereas such fall of prices has destroy
| juring the producer for the benefit of the
| ron-producer, increasing the burden of the
| debtor and swelling the gains of the credi-
tor, paraiyzing the productive energies of
| the American people, RELOCATING to idleness
| vast numbers of willing workers, sending
the shadows of despair into the home of
| the honest toiler, filling the land with
tramps and paupers and building I'D CO.
| losSal fortunes at the money centers; and
| whereas, in the effort to maintain the
goid standard the country has, within the
last eighteen months in a time of profound
| Ieace and plenty, been loaded down with
| Sl62oOO,WO of additional interest bearing
! debt, under such circumstances as to allow
a syndicate of native and foreign bankers
| single deal; and
| Whereas. another call is now pending for
further gold loan of 500, O0O. 600, which,
cut 1or an outburst of popular indigna-
tion, would also have been, negotiated in
| the same secret manner and through the
| same syndicates: and
whereas it stands confessed that the
| gold standard can only be upheld by so
depicting our paper currency as to force
the prices OF our products below the Eu-
| ropean and even below the Asiatic level
IN order that we may sal in foreign mar
| kets, thus aggravating the very evils of
| which our people so bitterly complain de-
grading American labor and striking at
the very foundations Of our civilization
| itself: and
Whereas. the advocates of the gold
standard persistently claim that the real
cause of gu: distress is overoroduction-
that we have produced so much that it has
made US poor-which implies that the true
remedy Is to close the factory abandon
the farm and throw a multitude of people
out OF employment-a octrine that leaves
us absolutely without hope for the future;
ard
Whereas, the difference of exchange be
tween silver standard countries and gold
standard countries is equivalent to A
bounty equal to the difference between the
| value of gold and silver, in favor of the
products of silver standard countries ex-
ported in gold standard countries. and a
corresponding tariff against the products
| ol Sold standard countries exported to sill
| Yer-uSing countries; and
whereas. the cost of production other
wise IN the old world, and particularly in
| Cnlna and Japan is far less than the cost
at which similar products can be ;,roduce,l
or manufactured in this country by Amer
lean labor without reducing our farmers
miners, mechanics, manufacturers and
otner industrial workers to the level OF
| Chinese coolies;
Therefore, be it resolved, that over and
above all other questions of policy, we arc
in favor of restoring to the people of thf
United States the tme-honored money o.
| the Constitution and silver, not one
but both-the money of Washington ant
Hamilton and Jefferson and Monroe anC
Jackson and Lincoln, to the end that tn,
American people may receive honest pa,
for an honest product; the American debto
pay his just obligations in an honest stand
/ clated 100 per cent above all the grea
staples of our country; and to the end fur
Their that silver standard countries may b,
deprived of the unnatural advantage the,
now enjoy in the difference in eXChang,
f between gold and silver-an advantag z,
2 which tariff legislation alone cannot over
D come
j We therefore confidently appeal to Thu
, people of the United States that leavin,
in allegiance for the moment all other cues
tons, however important, even momentous
f they may appear, and sunderng If nee;
] | be all former party ties and affilia tons
4 free themselves and their children from tn
= DONNA ton of the money power-a powe
more destructive than any which has eve
I been fastened upon the civilized men of an,
race in any age. And upon the con
e summation of their desires and efforts w
r | invoke the gracious favor of Divine Provi
s dence
Great Enthusiasm.
G The report was wildly and loudly APP
5 plauded as it was read, and the conference
4 | seemed to be filed to the fullest exten
with enthusiasm. 1t was read by Senate
Jones, chairman. At the conclusion Their
was a big demonstration. The delegate
| arose to their feet and cheered loudly, an
i called for Senator Jones. He spoke TO
: about ten minutes, and his remarks wer
! vociferously applauded.
= Plans of Campaign.
The following is the report of the com
h | mittee on organization. The plan of cam
e paign outlined by it is the same as put
= lished in The Star some time ago. TIL
u method of fixing the representation IN tn
c | convention is somewhat peculiar, and may
Z | in the end, cause trouble:
: Your committee on plans and organize
!, | ton begS to report as follows:
= That convention of the qualified voter
e of the United States who believe in tn
principles this day enunciated by this cor
e | ference, and who are willing to subordinat
|, | party allegiance and fealty to those prime
: Piles, and to support the nominees of h
: national convention provided for by thi
e conference, shall be held at the city of S
e Louis, Mo-, on the 22d day of July, Al
r 1895, at the hour of - o'clock noon.
= That the apportionment to such CONVEX ito
I shall be one delegate for each Senator an
|. Representative in the United States Cor
s gresS from the several states, and one dele