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Show jtST FLffi SILVER DID Passage of Wheeler Bill Is Purpose of Campaign liy JOIIX A. liOYVXEK, JR. United I'ross Staff Correspondent DENVER, Colo., April G (U.R) After campaigning- GO years, silver advocates of the west rallied their forces today to-day for one salient battle for remonetization- of the white metal, degraded as a money standard in the United States in 1873. With an admittedly growing; demand de-mand for more currency in circulation circu-lation some sort of modified inflation in-flation and increased attention toward silver in Washington, bimetal bi-metal ism lenders believe the iron is hot, and they are going to strike now, if they can, and strike hard. I'.rre Coinage Is Aim The offensive centered in a rally to gain support for the Wheeler remonetization bill before congress, con-gress, introduced by Senator Burton Bur-ton K. Wheeler of Montana. The bill provides for free coinage of silver kat n ratio of 1G to 1 with gold. Silver advocates here expressed dissatisfaction with any silver legislation leg-islation which came short of fully re-establishing the metal as a money standard. C. R. Oddridgo, secretary-treasurer of the newly formed National Jlomonc-ti:n Lion League, announced a program to enlist 5,000.01)0 silver supporters within (10 days in every state in the nation. The league has been organized in 17 states, Doddridge, who also is a vice president of the Bimctalic Association, said. Within three weeks he expects to have the organization or-ganization active in 48 states. The objective of the league is to obtain- signatures to a petition for passage of the Wheeler bill. Every person who signs a petition is cha.rged a fee of 10 cents to finance fin-ance the campaign. ' " "Direct demands upon senators and congressmen to pass the Wheeler bill is the only way to gain remonetization of silver," said Doddridge. "We believe that two-thirds two-thirds of the American people want bi-metalism." |