Show THE SILVER QUESTION the national silver committees I 1 mit tees gall call I 1 NOT RAISE THE ST STANDARD N 3 do coinage and thereby enslave the of macai gold ind land holders Is the appeal by the committee april 23 tle the national issued the following follow inc call he te national silver committee appointed i the first rit national lonal silver convention at sf bythal louis november 18 IM 1889 believing that st an C exigency has a arisen ri winch which calls for earnest most deliberation I 1 and muted united action on off art of the friends of bimetallism bi tle the united states hereby call convention at washington D 0 I 1 may lay 1 7 1802 one of the objects being to organize ire anize a national nations I 1 metallic bimetallic bi a association ocia tion I 1 league or better the promotion or r r the cause 0 of free b bi me 1 I 1 0 collide collir in the L united states this action aenon age to the manifest determination ts t impelled by ot the goll gold combination to suppress usser tsue lor jor another decade and if possible b h transmitting existing debts into rold old obligations and otherwise to fasten tre er ill the single gold standard upon the people ol 01 the united states and thus perpetuate petal is tho the nubile subtle system of robbery carried on for the past twenty years by 1 means of the money standard constantly I nereas his ills understanding must be 1 in avalne afe detective e tive v who ho doe doer s not know that tiza tion ot 01 hilver mixer has increased the money standard of the united states and the world and his hi conscience must be seared who ho would att attempt ePt to justify it but the increase s still till goes on and trill will g go on as irod god grow scarce and dear until the bi standard established a hundred ran ears ago by washington Il hamilton amilton and deffen jefferson is restored and gold is relieved of ill the strain of being the tile only money for the final redemption of other forms fornis of money and credit As the money standard if Is raided prices will fall and debt debts will be mer increased eased one will counterpart the other and nd the whole work of legislation whitman could not devise a scheme better calculated to enrich one elas cla at t the tile expense of another than han hv by a d delse eals of In increasing reissing ill the mone money stand standard iid and under tho the operation 0 of f athly this 9 device inie int 1873 hundreds of millions of 1 dollars doll ot wealth was sa annually created by one claw class and slid stealthily appropriated by another for twenty years tills hasteen has been go boing soing in on n and yet et congress Con greaB pledged to tl tha I 1 pe people olleo to faue remedy y the wrong hesitates an ana pauses its i if f in hypnotized by the tile wand of gold gohl pe people le want no seventy cent dollars alei neither ler will they forever tolerate under tile hypocritical hypo pretense of honest a dollar dollart that hathas has crown grown to bo be a hundred and fifty cent dollar and Is still grow growing ilig at an all augmented rate there nu 1 ian be ile thoe who are tired of the silver question but the tile con convenes of gold 1111 is too threatening to permit thu the cauce of ilver silver to be smothered and it to abandon it io ic to give ove over to ultimate id urn the boilers toilers of the tile lind land no the niver question will not down tile issue if Is to all othere although ne warily being a political apolitical question loi and the venue of remedy mastbe by political action act fori the ques i question of fro froe bt bl coinage i coinage la Is not A partisan and the contention convention IB is not ayes called led jor loran any partisan purpose but to urge on all parties tile justice and necessity of action on oil a 0 to no mo vital to the public wel ia ar r bold are united ao B live i ve and watchful as recent events h have ve hown they hae have unlimited mean at their command they control the metro litan press intimidate political leaders lo minute conventions and dictate plat fl r s und and candidates lint the people wili ft ill not be enslaved bior adil they for forir r to robbery robbery by increasing inure aing the lie gold standard tan dard the silver committee in this i ansis 1 ills upon the people everywhere to romp forward and tend send delegates to the convention the call IB is exten extended dod to all u ho parn stav favor ati an immediate restoration or of froe fre bimetallic coinage in the he 1 eted batea and each congressional district lit is requested to send two dele delegates ates and each tate and territory to sent send I 1 two wo ad additional delegates at large the farmers farnie re alliance organization organisation the tile state gr gra angers tigers the tile patrons of husbandry rv knights of labor bor and all other industrial industria indu ay favorable to free coinage of orfa alv silver e r are also invited to send one delegate e for each local or A cordial invitation is also extended to all citizens who by pen or othema e advocate bimetallism bi siem mem aers of congress and leNla legislatures turea of the meral states who dav favor arthe the restoration of or chebi the hi metallic standard and coinage 0 of f silver alner on the same terms as fold cold are especially ally invited to attend aai nam participate in n the proceedings of the convention by order of the national silver A J WAP waier bi chairman secretary ecret ary I 1 V INGTON D C april |