The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-02-24

comes a government OF me Teople,
For the People and By the People"
Washington. Feb 15.-The ad-
dresses on behalf of the Democratic,
Populist and Silver Republican par
ties which are the result of the
conferences which have been in
progress among the leaders of these
parties at the capital the last few
weeks were issued to-day. They
seek to unite the members OF the
three parties in future elections up
on the financial issue az the question
of paramount Importance, and are
separate to each OF the parties to be
consolidated all along the line for
this purpose.
The address to democrats is signed
by James X. Jones of Arkansas,
chairman of the Democratic National
Com mittee, and is indorsed by the
Dem ocratic Congressional Commit
tee; that to the populists by Senator
Marion Butler, chairman of the
Populist National Committee, and
25 other populist members of the
Senate and the House, and that to
the silver republicans by Chairman
Charles Towne aud the silver repub
licans in the Senate and House, and
also by ex-senator Dubois.
The Democratic address is as fol-
lows:
ITO the Public: The surrender of
the republican party to the advo
Gates of the gold standard and
monopoly is at last complete. The
present administration, called to
power upon the solemn pledge of
the Republican National Convention
at st. Louis to promote bimetallism,
has formulated and sent to Congress
a bill the leading purpose of which
the Honorable Secretary of the
Treasury avows is to commit the
country more thoroughly to the
gold standard
1.-The country has already, for "a
years. been so thoroughly committed
to this standard. partly by law and
partly by the usurpations of the
Government, that it's effects are seen
and felt on every hand; wages are
reduced; work is harder to get; the
weight of debt is doubled; the value
of land and other property is re-
duced one half or more, until the
lives of the people are made bitter
with hard bondage
AN APT ILLUSTRATION.
''It is certainly not in the interest
of humanity to have this condition
of things more thoroughly estab,
lished. The continued rise in the
value of gold, or, which is the same
thing, the continued fall of prices,
must inevitably transfer the prop
erty of all those engaged in active
business, the actual creators of
wealth, whether by hand, brain or
capital, to those who, avoiding the
risk and effort of active business, |
only draw interest. The increase of |
las per cent in the value of money,
caused by it's increasing scarcity
from 1909 to 1849, as admitted by
leading advocates of the gold stand
ard, found expression at that time in
extremely low prices and conditions
of unparalleled distress. The dis
covery of gold and silver in extraor
binary quantities and the great
increase in the volume of metallic
money resulting therefrom relieved
this distress and brought in its stead
wonderful prosperity Prices rose,
business fourshed, producers pros
pered, all were happy
substantially this condition would
have continued if both the precious
metals had been sllowed 10 remain
in use as money, because they were
being found in nearly sufficient
quantities to increase the volume of
money in proportion to the develop
ments Of the business A wicked
conspiracy, however, deprived one of
them of the money function This
was done with the deliberate pur-
pose of raising the value of the
other by rendering the supply of