Show FOR FREE COINAGE A Big Silver Meeting Hold in New York Resolutions Adopted NEW YORK Aug 24Three thousand people listened tonight at Cooper union to speeches in behalf of the free coinage of silver and applauded and cheered vigorously vig-orously The proceedings were opened by Hon John G Boyd You are here he said to proclaim your faith in the doctrine inculcated by the founder of your government that the unit of value must stand on both gold and silver Tonight To-night and in the future let the watchword j < 1 and cry of every honest and independent American citizen be Free coinage for a free people Richard Lacy was made chairman and delivered a brief address The claim he said that under free coinage of silver money would shrink in value was absurd ab-surd The unconditional repeal of the Sherman act meant the putting of a premium on gold The United States he said could maintain silver dollars at par as long as the government endures General A J Warner was introduced and said the claim that the present stringency strin-gency was caused by Sherman act was absurd I the Sherman act was repealed it would mean the end of bimetallism The panic was caused not by the fall of silver but the rise of gold I has risen at an unprecedented rate since 1873 audits rise is sure to be accelerated In conclusion he denounced the gold conspirators con-spirators in warm language and the audience au-dience applauded him roundly The Committee on Resolutions then reported re-ported a preamble and resolutions which were read and adopted unanimously They declare that the attempt to reduce the worlds specie supply to gold alone has fictitiously increased the value of gold for the sole benefit of wealthy creditors while it is impoverishing all debtors and other persons dependent de-pendent upon their own exertions for living I is further stated that tho real and only cause of the present financial distress which is compelling the closing of banks factories workshops and stores and the failure of thousands of business bus-iness men everywhere in Europe as well as America and other countries arises arses from a greedily inspired attempt to force upon the commercial world a single standard whereby the available supply of metallic money will be reduced half the present amount resulting in a corresponding cor-responding reduction in the markat price of all kinds of property and products of lab Jr Congressman Bartine traced the history his-tory of the silver movement and prophesied prophe-sied disaster which would follow a total demonetization of white metal Congressman Bryan of Nebraska said the recent representations in the New York papers had undoubtedly given the people erroneous ideas about the people of the west I He wanted i understood that the people of the west were better lovers of law and order and though not hindered by the shadows of collossal fortunes had less criminals and less paupers The people of New York through their representatives repre-sentatives in Congress were striving striv-ing to strike down the greatest industry in the Rocky mountains at tho same time the people of Denver are offering to send food to New York to feed its unemployed The audience did not like this and there were cries of We dont want it J Mr Bryan then devoted I de-voted himself to the silver question and I his remarks were warmly received I |