Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1895 — DEMANDS OF BIMETALLISTS. [ARTICLE]

DEMANDS OF BIMETALLISTS.

Silver Conference Issues an Address to the People. The Salt Lake City bimetallic convention has adjourned. An address was issued to the people of the country, setting forth the claims of the States represented, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Wyoming, and the territories of New Mexico and Utah. The claim is made that the people of these States, irrespective of party affiliations, present themselves almost ns a unit demanding the free coinage of silver and gold at the ratio -of sixteen ounces of silver to one ounce of gold, with full legal tender functions ac-' corded to each and no discrimination against either. The address continues: “The monetary system of the country was . founded not upon gold alone, not upon silver alone, but upon both silver and gold, at a certain ratio to each other, with no limitation upon the coinage of either and each standing upon an equal footing before the law. The system was founded by Hamilton, sanctioned by Washington and Jefferson, its wisdom and justice' questioned by no one until the year 1873. In that year, without notice to the people, the standard silver dollar was dropped from the coinage system of the country, and every debt therein existing, public and private, aggregating thousands of millions of dollars, was made payable in gold alone. Against this monstrous injustice the members of the new party are pledged to labor.” The following executive committee was chosen: Colorado, E. B. Light; Idaho G. V. Bryant; California, H. W. Langenour; Montana, F. T. Merrill; New Mexico, T.’ Bradford Prince; Oregon, Sydney Dell; Washington, W. C. .Tames; Wyoming, F.’ W. Mandell; Utah, R. C. Chambers. The Manchester Corporation has offered to assist the ship canal by foregoing £72,000 of interest which is due on the city’s £5,000,000 loan until traffic improves. t The steamship Campania, which sailed from Liverpool Monday, has $1,000,000 in bar gold aboard for the Belawnt-Mor-gan syndicate.