The Forrest City times., 1896-06-26

| farmer and the tradeSman tO the government there is apparent the same shrinking from giving ofense. lest the vengeance | of some offended financial power shall | descend. The business submits some portion of his international right lest some mighty foreign creditor shall make destructive demands. Where will all this end | fl 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 hu- manityY
 | This country can not much longer exist ire, and independent against all the rest of the ] world, nor can its people much longer be free | in the noblest sense of the term If the United States. debtor nation, shall follow policy dictated by creditor nations. We produce all l of the necessaries of life. Other natioas con- sume our product. In the race for existence it | is constant struggle between producer and | consumer. Our present system Of money deliberately submits to the desire and the profit of creditor nations leaving us in the mass, and as individuals, prey to the money- gathering and the deadly cheapening of the old world As the debt to creditors abroad in- creases on the masses of the nation, the price of human production on the farm and Tn the work-shop is decreased with appalling rapid | ity. exacting more and more toll from our citizens to meet the gwen demand, and hold ing over their heads a threat of the
 
 obligations will leave them bare and defense- less. The only remedy Is to stop falling prices--the deadliest curse of national life. Prices never will cease falling under the sim gle gold standard.
 The restoration of bimetallism by this coun- try will double the basis of our ID oney system. In time it will double the stock of primary money of the world--will 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 toilers | and the servant of the foreign gatheringS Blmetallism will help to bring the time when 8 certain expenditure of human toll will produce | certain financial result. Who among the great masses of our people in the United States but feels that his lot would be made 1 better, his aspiration take wings, if he could know in the performance of his labor what would be the price of his produce?
 Is this not worth the attention of the people | as individuals and worth the attention Of po- litical conventions yet to be held in this year 1 1896: Is pot this so great end that all who believe in the possibility of attaining it by the means proposed can yield something of their partisanship both in conventions and at the polls: It is in the hope l conventions will have the courage and the generosity to unite for this purpose that we have dar to offer our views to the people of | the United States, and because in the past there has lacked rallying point for the masses, who hold as we do to this belief we venture an act trusting that 1t will be received In the same spirit of conclliation, concession and hope with which we put it forth. 1 We have endeavored in plain way to set the matter before the eyes of our fellow clti- zenS. We invoke the union of all men and all parties who believe that the time has come for | the triumph Of justice. It is an hour when the people may speak for themselves as in- dividuals and through conventions yet to be held. It Is the right of every citizen to | indicate his preferences. With this in view, we offer to the forthcoming conventions and to the people the name of man for the pcesi- dency of the United States whose life, in pub lie and private, represents those distinguished virtues which adorned the days and the deeds of the earlier time of this republic; return to which vir- tues is requisite for the prosperity and contentment of the people and the perpetuity and commanding example after free institu- tions. That name Is Henry M. Teller-a man of the people and for the people. He is for no section. His experience and service, his devo- tion to the common justice and the common cause of his fellow citizens has been as wide the country. We believe that the people of the United States have him in their hearts he has their interests in his purpose through all the work of exalted life.
 It is not merely as the exponent of monetary reform that we present this man to the people. It is true that he has waged a mighty war for the restoration of the money of the constitu- ulon, and his name has been iden- tihed that of other living man with this great cause But had his services been less demanded and less noticed in this | q ion baf ,Io Ctfl1 l,atra nized in him for other labors a statesman of the purest type. His only poverty has been that Of purse in all thousands else-in the generosities of man to man. in kindliness of deeds for his fellows, and in the study and the doings of mighty career, he has been one of the most opulent American citizens Of any age
 In submitting this name to the people we re- mind them that just a generation ago from the heart of the boundless west and touched by the finger of God, there arose an emanci pator who was powerful in the work of human de- liverance By his wisdom and courage, proyi- dentially directed. millions were set free and the nation kept in it's holy union. If others shall this opportunity we see it; if our fellow citizens shall see this duty it. that sublime history may be l repeated and another man, clothed in the majesty of devotion to the race, will be lifted to power, where. by his wisdom and courage, providentially directed, more millions may be made free from chains galling those of actual slavery, and the nation may be pre- served in the unity of it's mission to the world
 Dated at St. Louis, Mo, June l9, 1896
 [Signedl
 R. K. PETTIGREw, South Dakota.
 FRANK J. CANNON, Utah
 l CHARLES S. HARTMAN, Montana. | CLARENCE F.. ALLEN, Utah
 BEN E. RICH, Idaho
 1 A. ~. ROBERTSON. Idaho.
 | R. C. CLEVELAND Nevada.
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