The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-06-19
APPEAL TO
The PEOPLE.
Continued from First Page.l


the mass Of the people nor progressive
for their welfare.
We do not arrogate TO ourselves one
iota more of Intelligence, patriotism or
courage than is possessed by any OF
our ow-citizens- But we Ieei Inat
the time has come for the per-
Torrance of q duty to the country;
and for our part. though we shall
stand alone, we viii make an endeaYor
in the direction Of that duty
Parties may Outlive their usefulness;
the truth never becomes obsolete. Every
generation of freemen has the right to
affirm the truths of past knowledge and
present requirements and if the en-
fOrcement of these truths shall make
necessary a departure from party or
ganizatiOn. the people have this right
and Will exercise it until old parties
shall return TO the truth or new par
ties shall be created 10 effect it into
law.
If the voices which have sounded to
US from every state in this union are
an indication of the real feeling, this
year is the appointed time for the peO-
pie to assert themselves through such
mediums as may give best promise Of
the achievement of justice
But whether we are mistaken or not
concerning the general sentiment in the
United states, we have not mistaken
our own duty in Withdrawing from the
Republican convention, feeling that it
is better to be right and with the mi
AOL4Lg IA apparent defeat imam 10 ne
wrong with the majority in apparent
triumph
We mold that in the great work of so
cial evolution in this country. none
tary reform stands as the first reQui-
site NO policy, however promising of
good results, can take its place Con
tinuation during the next four years
upon the present financial system Will
bring down upon the American people
that cloud of impending evil. to avert
which should be the first thought of
riots. Our very institutions are at
stake.
Today with the rapidly increasing
population with widely swelling de-
atively contracting, and the people are
passing into a servitude all the more
dangerous because it is not physically
apparent.
The nation itself. as to other nations.
is losing the sturdy courage which
could make it defiant in the face of in
farmer and the tradesman to the gov
eminent there is apparent the same
shrinkage from giving offense lest the
vengeance of some offended financial
power should descend
The business man submits some pOr-
ton of his judgment and his will, and
the nation submits some portion Of its
international right lest some mighty
foreign creditor shall make destructive
Where win an this end if the people
shall decline to assert themselves
Where viii it end if the older parties
in their determination to maintain
themselves in power for powers safe
alone shall refuse TO recognize the right
and the hope of humanity.
This country cannot much longer ~
list free and Independent against all the
rest of the world, nor can its people
much longer be free IN the modest
sense if the United States, a debtor
nation, shall follow a policy dictate
by creditor nations.
We produce all of the necessaries Of
life. Other nations consume our pro-
ducts. In the race for existence it is
q constant struggle between producer
and consumer. Our present system of
money deliberately submits to the de-
sire and profit of creditor nations, leav-
ing us i'm the mass and as individuals a
prey to the money gathering and the
deadly cheapening OF the world.
AS the debt to creditors abroad in
creases on the masses of the nation, the
price of human production on the farm
and in the workshop is decreased with
appalling rapidity, e-sactlng more and
more to it from our citizens to meet the
given demand and holding over their
heads a threat of the day when confis-
cation to meet their obligations viii
leave them bare and defenseless.
The only remedy is to stop falling
prices-the deadliest curse Of national
life. Prices viii never cease falling un-
der the single gold standard.
The restoration of bimetallism by this
country will double the basis of our
money system. In time it viii double
the stock of primary money of .he
WOrId-wiu stop falling prices and
steadily elevate them until they viii
regain their normal relation to the vol
ume of debts and credits in the world.
Binetallism will help to bring about
the great hope of every social reform
err every believer in the advancement
of the race who realizes that the insta-
bility of prices has been the deadly foe
of our toilers and the servant of the
foreign interest gatherer.
Bimetallism viii help to bring the time
when a certain expenditure of human
toll viii produce a certain financial re-
suit Who among the great masses of
our people in the United States but
feels that his lot would be made better,
his aspiration take new wings if he
could know in the performance of his
labor what would be the price of his
product?
is not this purpose worth the atten-
ton Of the people as individuals and
worth the attention of political con-
VenuOns yet to be held in this year
1882 Is not this SO great an end that
all who believe in the possibility of at
tanning it by the means proposed can
yield something of their partnership
both in conventions and at the pOlls2
1t IS in the hope that the masses and
the remaining conventions will have
the courage and the generosity to unite
for this purpose that we have dared to
OFFER our views to the people of the
United States; and because in the past
there has lacked a rallying point for
the masses who hold as we do to this
belief we venture an act trusting that
it viii be received in the same spirit of
Cancellation, concession and hope with
which we put it forth.
We have endeav0red in q plain vav
to set the matter before the eyes Of our
fellow citizens. We invoke the union
Of all men and all parties who believe
that the time has come for the triumph
Of justice.
Tt is an hour when the people may
speak for themselves as individuals
and through conventions vet to be held
1t is the right of every citizen to indf-
cate his preference
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