The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-07-03
= CONDITIONS MAY CHANGE RATIO"
A Declaration by A. ]. Warner stirs Up the
Monetary League.
(By the Associated Press.)

Kansas City, July 2.-The placidity OF
! the meetings of the United States None
| tary League was considerably rutfled In
the closing hours today by statement
| from Hon. A. J. Warner. OF Ohio, VINO
was a volunteer speaker, taking the time
and place which had been assigned to Mr..
| Sulzer, who failed to appear. General
| Warner was introduced by Ex-Governor
| ST John who called him the father or
the cause of free silver. Warner caused
! the first futter of excitement by saying
| that SO far as he knew there was no
| proposition to change the ratio OF coinage
The live question of the hour, he added,
| is to get silver restored to its former
place, where it would have the same
rights of gold.
81 don't care anything about the ratio
| of 16 to- l." he said. Get silver re-
stored" he added; "catch your hare first
| then cook it. Regulate silver automau-
! cally and you settle the question.
| sometimes think we have laid too much
! stress ON 16 to l. l am in favor OF 1t,
but there are and must always be condi-
| lions which may change the ratio"
| Mr. Berry, OF Pennsylvania. interrupt
| ed and asked if General Warner was rot
| giving away some Of the secrets of the
|
! platform.
Before General Warner could reply, Mr..
| Harvey asked him, do you understand
the history Of free coirage?"
General Warner replied without per-
| turbation that he had made a study of
| it and he begged leave to say to Mr..
Harvey and others that there had been
no legal action taken by Congress on the
| question of ratio.
| Interruptions followed with rapidity and
| exceptions to the speakers views became
| heated. Waiting a moment for quiet
| General Warner continued
Il tell you the question of 16 to is
| going to cut little figure in this cam
paign. The issues will be anti-imperial-
ism and trusts and what we should do
| for humanity. and the question OF ratio
will sink into inf1nitesimal insignifi-
cantce."
Mr. Harvey leaped upon table and re-
peating former statements, he added:
| IF the people do not instruct Con-
| gress before election on the question of
ratio Congress would never agree. And
| | stand here to say to YOU" pointing to
| General Warner, 10 to has been de-
manded by our leader, Colonel Bryan,
| anu we Will lOllOW MS iciu'
| motion to add General Warner to the
| Committee on Resolutions brought out
several objections and General Warner
settled the problem by declining to
serve.
! A vote asking General Warner to adj
dress the convention tomorrow at 10 a. m,
on the Currency Bill, was unanimously
-,aissed and the convention adjourned
until that hour.
| After the convention General Warner
| was waylaid at the entrance by many who
| had been present and some of them de-
nounced him politically, and in some in
| stances personally. The outside protest
was as vigorous as the inside.
Today's meeting was the first of two
days session OF the League, Hon. Charles
I. Thomson Of Denver, President of the
| League, called the meeting to order and
| introduced Hon. Edward H. Stiles. of
| Kansas City, who read the call of the
League. Mr.. Stiles followed with brief
| speech in which he said that after thirty
years of affiliating with the Republican
party he was now ready to hand in his
adhesion to the Democratic party. He
charged that the Republican party had
violated it's promises on financial ques-
| tions.
He said the Republican party had now
taken the place of Spain in the Philip
pines. and was shooting down the pa
triots OF the Philippines.
! On motion of w. II. (Coin) Harvey,
committee was appointed to prepare and
| report to the league a declaration of prin-
ciples The committee consists of w. II.
Harvey, John p. st. John, DR.. A. A. John
son, Colorado f. j. Van Voris Indiana;
| A. Delmar, New York; and James b.
Weaver, OF Iowa.
Mr.. Harvey of Chicago introduced as
the first speaker. tbs subject was The
Connection Between Money. Trusts and
! Imperialism"
He declared that in the last forty
years there had been organized in this
country band of money lenders. They
meet annually and had finally succeeded i'll
cornering the supply of money and con-
| trolling it. By the act of the last Con-
gress the Government had gone out of the
business of issuing paper money, except
as it was called for by the organization
| to which he referred. Money in the hands
| of this organization was money to loan,
| and in this respect the object for when
money was made, is diverted. The scale
of wages, he said. has not declined very
much, but this had been nulllfed by
strikes and labor agitations, the result OF
the trust and money lenders organiza-
tion.
The Republican Administration was also
responsible for an increasing tenantry sys-
| TEN in this country.
| The fight for civilization was now on
| by the Democratic party. 1t was more
determined than it ever had been, and
would never be given up until it won.
The prosperity of which the Republican
party boasted so much was the result OF
the Spanish war and the demand caused
1 by famine in India He was in favor
of the expansion of civilization and not
| of cruelty.
| At the conclusion of Mr.. Harvey's adj
| dress the League adjourned until
| O'Clock this afternoon.
Governor ST. John was the first speaker
of the afternoon session, his subject be-
ing: what Constitutes Money" Refer
ring to the convention on the Fourth.
the speaker hoped that there would be a