The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-07-16
BIhErALLIC LEAGUE REPORTS SUE
SfANFIAL PROGRESS.
THE REPORT INTERESTING
General Francis A. Walker Declares Tha
the Chicago Convention Has Retard-
cd tho Movement - McKinley
Said Not to He . Gold Mono
metalllst-- DistinS ulshed
Men Attend.

LONDON, July 14.-Ihe Blmetalllc
League of Great Britain held its an
nual meeting to-day in the Canon
street hotel. The annual report de-
clares that the cause of international
bimetallism has made substantia
progress during the year, both in
Great Britain and abroad. It mem
tions the resolutions adopted by the
Chamber of Deputies in France, the
Chamber of Representatives in Bel
GUM and the Prussian diet, declaring
for bimetallism, and continues: In
the United States all parties and
classes would welcome international
bimetallism. A large section of the
people there are, however, SO strongly
convinced of the urgent necessity for
the remonetiziDg of silver that they
are indisposed to wait for interna-
tional agreement. No party of any
Importance in the United States favors
gold recommendation"
The report concludes as follows:
1.-The responsibility for the present
and growing dangers to the industrial
life of the nation rests upon those
who oppose that monetary system
under which our prosperity advanced
by leaps and bounds
A letter was read from Lord Alden
ham (Mr. Henry Hucks Gibbs. presi-
dent of the league, in which he con-
graduated the members uron the
great progress which has been made
in the United States. lit is indeed a
striking fact" he wrote, that this
question. which some here affect to
treat with contempt, should be appar-
emily the main political question be-
fore nation of 20, 900, 900 people"
Lord Alderman also alluded to what
he termed the ignorance of the Lon
don press upon this subject.
''They joined" he said, 1.-The chorus
for honest money believing that
those words are applied in America to
gold monometalllsm, and not, as they
really are. to international bimetal-
lism. Whatever may be the result OF
the Presidential election, we may be
sure that our cause generally is pros.
.pering."
A letter OF regret was read from A.
j. Balfour, first lord of the treasury,
who said that only illness prevented
him from being present.
General Francis A. Walker of Bos'
ton, Mass, made a speech which was
greeted with enthusiasm. He gave a
review of t. silver question from the
American standpoint. He said that
the all-engrossing topic at the Re.
publican national convention in St
Louis was the currency. Governor
Mckinley, he said. was never a gold
monometallist and could not be if he
tried. General Walker read the
St. Louis currency plank and the
Boston resolution regarding the
gold standard, both of which were
heartily cheered and continued: Ut
is deeply to be regretted that millions
of our best citizens, as represented a,
the Chicago convention last week, de-
clared for the free coinage of silver al
the ratio of IL to ], without waiting
for the action of other countries.
This was done passionately, but the
effect will be to maintain the gold
standard unimpaired.
Among the distinguished mer
present were Lord Lidderdale, ST,
Thomas Sutherland, William E. NJ
Tomlinson, NJ. p, the Hon. ]. w. D.
Scott Montague, NJ. p, b. S. Forester
Moreton Frewen, Lord Sherborne and
Professors Foxwell and L. L. Price.