The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1897-12-14
CALLED TO ACTION.

The Silver Republicans Of The Coun-
try.
TIE following is the address issued
to Republicans by ex Congressman
ToWne. It explains itself:
DULUTH. MINI, Nov 10
Chairman Charles a, rowne, Of the
National Committee Of the silver Re
publican party, to night issued che fol
lowing address:
"To the Silver Republicans of the
United States.
1.-The crisis long expected is at>hand.
The policy we denounced when we
reclaimed hat a conspiracy had been
formed to capture Ghe Republican
party in the interest Of the gold stand
ard is near it's contamination. The
Wolcott Commission has confessedly
failed in it's negotiations for an inter
national agreement for the establish
ment of bimetalIism. That failure,
foreseen by those who drafted the Gun
ming financial plank in the st. Louis
platform and forced it's adoption, is
now used as, from the first, it has been
intended to be used as the preliminary
to the definite establishment Of the
gold standard in the United States.
They knew perfectly we'll that a plain
and honest pronouncement for the
gold standard in that platform would
mean it's DISASTROUS defeat at the pools.
They inserted a weak and inconsistent
promise to promote an Internal .onal
agreement for the purpose of holding
the allegiance of millions of Republi-
can voters who were for bimetallism,
while at the same time it has sought
to bind them permanently to the gold
standard, through a firm and mann
biguous declaration that, if the agree
ment could not be secured, that stand
ard must be preserved
1.-THE wretched farce has been played
through the humillatiDg appeal to the
gold powers of E Irope that we gra
ciously be permitted to be relieved by
them from a monetary serviSude Snat
is wreckiDg u producers and destroy
ing our national independence. We
have been spurEed before the eyes of
the world. The alternative so artfully
provided is now invoked. The sup
porters of the British money system
now claim warrant for their whole ne
farious programme in the alleged en-
dorsement of that declaration by the
Republican voters of 1896. Steps are
therefore being rapidly taken to put
the plan in operation. The President
by special message to Congress en-.
dorses the scheme of the Indianapolis
Convention of sound money advocates
which was declared by them to rest
upon three fundau tai and essential
features.
1. TIE permanent establishment of
the gold standard.
2. The retirement of the green backs
and all other governmen t notes.
> 3 The institution of a huge bank
system of power to issue ~andgcontrol
the paper money of the country.
The gold standard press has taken
the cue and from one boundary of the
nation to the other is proclaiming the
failure of international bimetallism
and the consequent necessity of a com
prehensiVe read Istment Of our cur
rency system upon the gold basis.
Finally, the national sound money
league in it's semi annual meeting in
New York yesterday, puts the stamp
of infallibility upon the same conclu
sion in the following language:
THE situation demands a definite,
clean and u~nequivocal declaration that
International bImetalLism is a dream of
the past. The United States must pro
claim their acceptance of the world
fact and plant themselves finally upon
the single gold standard
"5ilver Republicans of the country,
the crisis demands your most energetic
and ~consecrated Efforts. In the glori
GUS campaign of 1896 and again in the
elections, you nobly proved
your ptriotism and vindicated your
title to the grateful remembrance of
succeeding generations. In this su-
preme juncture your duties are heavier
and your opportunities greater than
those of any other citizens of the repub-
lie. 1t is yours to ho.d together in
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