The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-10

Unacceptable.
 New York, Nov. 9.-The semi-annual meeting of the executive committee of the National Sound Money league (non- partisan) was begun ttlis forenoon in the eastern office of the league at No. Il Broadway. Hon. J. Sterling Morton, vice president of the league for Neb- raska, wrote: MT Bryan and his dis ciples are actively engaged as propa- ganda of the money fallacies. They have united in one all the alliances in this state for the purpose of obtaining free silver. It is very painful to ob- serve that this aggregation may quite possibly make majority of twenty thousand at the coming election by the candidates who represent all that is in- imical and disastrous to agriculture, and, in fact, to sound government everywhere"
 Judge w. M. Rose. vice president of the league for Arkansas, wrote: "There is no change in this state. There is an overwhelming majority for free silver and Bryanism in every congressional district"
 Charles F. Libby, vice president of the league for Maines wrote in part: 50 far as Maine is concerned I do not think that the silver question will be an issue in the congressional campaign next year. I think that there is feel ing that a more systematic banking law is needed
 M E. Ingalls, of Cincinnati remark ed "The result of the recent campaign shows conclusively that the south will again drift back to the democracy and free silver"
 James L. Blair of St. Louis wrote: "On the whole, cannot say that I feel encouraged over the situation in Mis- souri, fully recognize that the strength of the silver democracy in this state is wholly due to lack of education on the subject. Republican candidates for congress have unblushingly advo- l cated free coinage of silver" William Cornevelle of Buffalo report | ed that as far as he could ascertain in both eastern and western part of the state the free silver sentiment was &C., tually dying out. .... A committee comprising Louis R. En- rich, MT. Leighton, Secretary Smalley, Gustav Schwab and William c. Corn well was appointed to prepare a declar ation on international bimetallism to the effect that bimeta1lism is dead and 1 that gold should be the standard of the 1 country.
 Louis R. Enrich of Colorado Springs, as chairman of one of the sub-commit- tees, read the following: "The execu- tive committee of the National Sound Money league, in behalf of it's members throughout the United States issues the following address; International bimet- allsm, as world possibility, is dead, Let us recognize this. The internation- al bimetallic commission appointed un- der the St. Louis pledge of the republi- can party has made strenuous efforts on behalf of this policy. These efforts have proved futile. The commercial necessities of the world have demon- strated that a dual standard is com mercially unacceptable and, in the pres ent stage of civilization, impossible. 1 The hour has come, it seems to us, when a national recognition of this fact is necessary.
 'The situation demands definite, clear, unequivocal declaration that in ternational bimetallism is a dream of the past. The United States must pro- claim their acceptance of the World-fact and accept gold as the standard.
 "We invite the friends of sound mon ey and all who would contribute to the we'll being and safety of our commer- cial life, to join in bringing about the unmistakable declaration that now and henceforth the monetary system of the United States shall rest on the single gold standard" The next meeting of the league will be held at Washington l December 2.