Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-06-27
APPEAL. FOR SILVER.

Twenty-six Delegates TO the kePubifcan
Convention Issue an appeal to the Coun-
try.
ST. LOUIS. June 2o.-The silver men
had a conference yesterday and issued
the subjoined address which was
signed by 20 delegates to the national
republican convention:
To the People of the United states: Obey
ing the call of duty and justified by the COM
mon citizenship of this republic. we address
this communication to the people and the
forthcoming conventions Of the United states
In doing so We claim no authority or rigns
other than that which belongs to every man to
express personal convictions: but We respect
fully solicit the cooperation of all who believe
that the time has come for a return TO the
simpler and more direct methods of naming
men for national service than has obtained In
recent years.
Recognizing the value and the splendid
achievements of political parties in this
country. elsewhere, we are yet constrained
to believe that for more than snyears no one OF
them has been entirely suficleae for the needs Of
people. The great trend to better things rest
ing in the heart and the purpose of all men,
has been stayed during the latter part Of this
generation by the failure of parties to express
in their achievements the highest hope and
aspiration of the mass of the people who con-
titute the parties. And there has been grow
ing in this counrry-Swelling with each recur-
renee of the national elections great mass OF
Independent thinkers and voters, which. fall
ing in itself to control, has gravitated between
the two parties.
What has been the cause of this mighty
oscillation of mass which this year has
probably obtained controlling proportionss
Every man can answer to himself. If he
has been observer, If he has had inter-
ests that wers affected If he has felt
hope to greater justice done and has
seen that hope blasted: if he knows that
the general dissatisfaction has arisen from
the fact that the party promises made were
broken to the people by party performance, he
knows that the election was over and
successful candidates installed they became
the servitors of the party and the advocates of
i've
which alone there seemed to be an assurance
OF selfish safety and partisan approval.
We hold that in the great work of social evo-
luton in this country monetary reform stands
the first requisite No policy, however
promising of good results, take its place.
Continuation during the next four years upon
the present financial system will bring down
upon the American people that cloud OF i'm
pending evil, to avert which should be the first
thought of statesmen and the first prayer of pa
triots Our very institutions at stake
To-day, with a rapidly increasing population.
with widely swelling demands, the basis of our
money is relatively contracting and the people
passing into servitude all the moro
dangerous because it is not physically ap-
parent. The nation itself, to other ma
tions, is losing the sturdy courage which
could make it defiant in the face of injus-
tice and internal wrong. From the farmer
and the tradesman to the government there
is apparent the same shrfnkage from CIV
ing ofrense lest the vengeance of some Of
Tended financial power should descend The
business submits some portion of his
some portion of it's international right, lest
some mighty foreign creditor shall make de-
structfve demands Where will all this end
If the people shall decline to assert them
selves? 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 humanityf
This country cannot much longer exist free
and Independent against all the rest of the
in the noblest sense of the term If the United
States. debtor nation shall follow policy
dictated by creditor nations. We produce all
the neceSsaries of life Other nations consume
our products. In the race for existence it is a
constant struggle between producer and con-
sumner. Our present system of money
deliberately submits to the desire and tho
profit of creditor nations, leaving us in the
mass and as individuals, a prey to money gath
ering and the deadly cheapening of the old
world
The ONLY remedy is to stop falling prices,
the deadliest of national life. Prices
will never falling under the single gold
standard. The restoration of bimetallism by
this country will double the basis of
money system In time it will double the
stock of primary money of the world-wilI
stop falling prices and steadily elevate them
until they will regain their normal relation
to the volume of debts and credits in the
world. Bimetallism will help to bring about
the great hope of every social reformer, every
believer in the advancement of the race who
realizes that the instability of prices has been
the deadly foe of our toilers and the servant of
the foreign interest gatherer. Bimeta1iSm
will held to bring the time when certain ex-
penditure of human toll will procure certain
financial result.
Who among the great masses of our people
IN the United States. but feels that his lot
would be better. his aspiration take wings
ff1he could know in the performance of his Ia
Dor what would be the price of his PRODUCT
1t is in the hope that the masses and the
naming conventions will have the courage
and the generosity to unite for this purpose
that have dared to offer views the
people of the United States. and because in
the past there has lacked a rallying point for
the masses who hold do to this belief,
venture to act, trusting that it will be
celved in the same spirit of conciliation, con-
ceSsion and hope with which put it forth
With this in view. offer to the forthcom-
ing 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
days and the deeds of the earlier time of this
republic. return to which virtues is requisite
for the prosp erity and contentment of the peo-
pie and the perpetufty and commanding ex-
ample of free institutions. That is
Henry NJ. Teller man of the people and
for the people. He is of no section His
experience and service, his devotion to the
common justice and the common cause of his
fellow citizens has been wide the coun-
try 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 exalted life. 1t is not merely as
the exponent of monetary reform that pre-
sent this man to the people It is true that he
has waged mighty war Tor the restoration OF
the money of the constitution, and his name
has been identified as that Of no other living
man with this great cause.
In submitting his to the people, we
remind them that just a generation ago
from the heart Of the boundless west and
touched by the finger of God there arose
emancfpator who powerful in the
work of human deliverence. BY his wis