Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1892 — SECOND CALL ISSUED. [ARTICLE]

SECOND CALL ISSUED.

Another Free Silver Convention to Be Held May 26 and 27, 1892. The National Silver Committee has issued the following call: The National Silver Committee, appointed by the first National Silver Convention, held at St. Louis in November, 1889, believing that the exigency has arisen which calls for earnest deliberation and united action on the part of the friends of bimetallism throughout the United States, hereby calls a convention to be known as the Second National Sliver Convention, to be held at Washington, D. C., May 26 and 27, 1892, one of the objects being to organize a National Bimetallic Association or league for the better promotion of the cause of free bimetallic coinage In the United States. This action is impelled by the manifest determination on the part of the gold combination to suppress the silver issue for at least another decade, and, if possible, by transmuting existing debts into gold obligations and otherwise to fasten forever the single gold standard upon the people of the United States, and thus to perpetuate the subtle system of robbery that has been carried on for the last twenty years by means of a money standard that is constantly increasing in value. His understanding must be defective who does not know that the demonetization of silver increased the money standard of the United States and of the world, and his conscience must be seared who would attempt to justify it. But Ilils increase still goes on and will go on, as gold grows scarce and dear, until the bimetallic standard, established 100 years ago by Washington, Hamilton and Jefferson, is restored, ami gold relieved of the strain of being the only money of flntd redemption for other forms or money and credit. •.As the standard is raised, prices fall and debts are Increased. The one is the counterpart ot the other, and the whole ■ Is the work of legislation. The wit ot man could not devise a scheme better calculate I to enrich one class at xthe expense ot another than by the device of an Increasing money standard, and under the operation of this device since 1873 hundreds ot millions of dollars annually of the we.ilth created by one cla~s have been steadily appropriated by another. For twenty years this has been going on, and yet a Congress pledged to the people to remedy the wrong hesitates and pauses as If hypnotized by the wand of gold. The propio want no “70cent dollars," neither will they forever tolerate, under the hypocritical pretense of “honest money,” a dollar that has grown to be a 150-cent dollar and Is still growing at an augmented rate. There may be those who are tired of the silver question, but the consequences of gold monometalDm are too threatening to permit the cause of sliver to be smothered, and to abandon It is to give over to ultimate slavery the tollers of the land. No, the silver question will not d>w n. It Is an Issue paramount t> all others. Although it Is necessarily a p dltlcal question, in the sense that the remedy must be by political action, the question ot free bimetallic coinage is not a partisan question, and the convention is not called for any partisan purpose, but to urge on all parties the justice and necessity of action on a question so vital to the public welfare. The gold monometallsts are united, active, and watchful, as recent events have shown. They have unlimited means at their command, they control the metropolitan press, they intimidate political leaders. dominate conventions, and dictate platforms and candidates. But the people will not be enslaved nor will they submit forever to the robbery of an Increasing gold standard. ,

The Silver Committee In this crisis call upon the people everywhere to come forward and send delegates to this convention. 1 he call is extended to all. who earnestly favor the immediate restoration ot free bimetallic coinage in the Uuited States, and each Congressional district is requested to send two delegates, and each State and Territory to send two additional dele-gates-at-large. Farmers’ AUlanqp organizations, State Granges, PMrons of Husbandry, Knights of Labor, and all other industrial organizations favorable to the free coinage of silver are also invited to send one delegate for each local organization. A cordial invitation is also extended to all citizens who, by pen or otherwise, have been advocates of bimetallism. Members of Congress and of the Legislatures of the several States who favor the restoration of the bimetallic standard and the coinage of sliver on the same terms as gold are especially invited to attend and participate In the proceedings of the convention. By order of the National Sliver Committee. A. J. Warner, Chairman, Lee Crandall, Secretary. Washington, D. C.. April 23.