The age-herald., 1898-10-12
FOR THE CAUSE
 OF FREE COINAGE
Address Issued to the People of
 the United States.
MONEY TO MEET EXPENSES
Is Necessary in Securing Justice to the Masses, and an Earnest Plea for Assistance is Made
 to Citizens.

Chicago. H., October 11.-(Special)-T
 following address has been issued to the | American people by the national democratic
 committed:
 To the Friends of Our Cause-Through | the action of the national democratic com l mittee the undersigned have been appointed
 a committee on ways and means to begin
 work now for the campaign of 1900, and de-
 sire to issue the following address upon the
 work we have undertaken:
 Money to meet expenses is as necessary | in securing justice for the people in the
 trials of great political issues before the 1 jury of the whole people as it is necessary
 in the case of a litigant securing fair and | impartial hearing before court and Jury. !, In the latter instance suitor without
 .loney is unable to employ counsel of apll- l ity. take needed dispositions and make other 1 legitimate preparations requiring the ex- pendture of money; and when thus situ- ated, if opposed by a wealthy adversary,
 he frequently fails in securing Justice by | being unable to fairly and fully present ms 1 case to the court and jury.
 | And while this is true of the individual 1 in a court of justice, on a much larger scale it is true of a great body or people contending for the cause of truth ana ilp- erty Money must be raised to pay the necessary expenses, or our cause Will meet with an adverse verdict in l9OO.
 The forces opposing us have four actlve national committees, to whom money Is
 supplied by those profting by national leg islation and the corrupt administration or
 affairs. One of these committees is the
 so-caled national democratic gold stand
 ard committee at the head of which is MT.
 George r. Peabody a New York banker.
 Another is the Indianapolis committee the
 outgrowth of the Indianapolis gold stand
 ard commercial convention, at the head or
 whIfh is H. H. Hanna, who is insidiously
 working through commercial bodies, seek
 ing to frighten them into compliance with
 the behests of the money power. The third
 is the bankers organization at 52 Williams
 street, New York; that is supplying free
 of expense to all willing newspapers mis-
 leading arguments in favor of the gold
 standard; and the fourth is the national
 republican committee, of which Mark
 Hanna is chairman, and to whom the
 trusts, monopoiies and other combinations
 are furnishing the money for corruptng
 the minds of the people and debauching the
 nation.
 If we are to combat the evil influences
 at work the necessary money must be raised to defray the necessary expenses thereof. We appeal to the people-the great common people-who have no interest in special legislation and whose rights and that of the common welfare are to be pro- tected.
 All money collected will be paid to the national treasurer of the committee, to be appointed by us in a short time. No money will be paid out except as appropriated by the committee in session delibera ting upon its expenditure. We have appointed MT.
 w. H. Harvey as the general manager of the work of the committee.
 The plan adopted and approved by the committee is to secure a subscription from as many persons as possible to pay one dol lar per month for each month from now un- til October, 1900. Thus a person subscribing to the fund of the ways and means com mittee in October, 1898, will agree to pay one dollar per month for twenty-five months, or in all, $25. One subscribing in November following will agree to pay one dollar each month for twenty-four months, with the last payment due October l. 1900, and so on. The number of payments depends on the month and year in which the subscription is made and all ending on the first day of October, 1860. Where one is willing and able
 Co pay more than $1 per month, the sub scrfption will be accepted for such increased amount as the subscriber is willing to make
 Where one is not able, in his judgment to subscribe one dollar per month he will be expected to get one or more to associate
 themselves with him jointly in the subscrip- tion for the one dollar per month. It is the opinions of the committee that it is only in this way that the money needed can be raised-that it must come from the people whose rights and interests are to be pro- tected.
 The offices of the committee have been opened at room 1044, Unity building Chi cago, where complete set of books will be kept showing the names of all subscribers with their postoffice address by counties and states, and the condition of each ac- count will at all times appear upon these books. In no instance will solicitors be au- | thorized to receive money. Anyone solicit 1 ing subscriptions will receive no money | from the subscriber, but will forward the | subscription papers to the national office. | The national office will notify the sub
 scriber of the receipt of his subscription and | will forward blanks governing the details | Of remittance to the national treasurer. | It is from the sincere advocates of our | cause everywhere that subscriptions to this l fund for human liberty are expected and 1 on the whole, a sum sufficient may be thus raised to properly present our cause to the
 American people; which means success. for | a just cause is doubly strong To those
 who appreciate what hangs upon the inn l pending struggle, the payment of the one | dollar each month will assume an inapor | tance equal to that of love for home and