People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1893 — EAGER FOR FREE COINAGE. [ARTICLE]

EAGER FOR FREE COINAGE.

Appeal Issued by the Executive Commit- , tee of the Late Silver Convention. Washington, Aug. 15.—The executive committee appointed at the Chicago silver convention met Saturday in this city and issued an appeal to the people signed by A. J. Warner, chairman, and George F. Washburn, secretary. The address declares that the repeal of . Ihe present silver law is the object of the extra session of congress, in furtherance of a conspiracy to at once stop all increase in the currency, place the country on the single gold standard, and at one stroke change all debts to gold debts, with the certainty that gold will thereafter continue to increase in value at an accelerated rate.

It also claims that the present condition of affairs in financial and business circles is caused by a “currency famine” and the destruction of credit, which has been needlessly brought about to force the repeal of the silver law. It is impossible for this condition to be improved by shutting off the money supply and still further restricting the volume of currency. It is a time when more money and not less is needed. It is futile to suppose that credit, already overexpanded, can be made to take the place of money. This condition will last until the gold conspirators accomplish their unholy purpose, unless the people come to she rescue. If they would keep their own and remain free men they must arouse and protect their rights and their homes from the grasping hands of the gold conspirators. who would produce European conditions in this country if they could. The address calls upon the people everywhere to lay aside, for the time, party differences and to assemble at their accustomed places of meeting, as our fathers did of old, and pass resolutions calling upon their representatives and senators in congress to resist the repeal of the present silver law unless coupled with a provision restoring the free coinage of gold and silver as it existed under the law prior to the passage of the fraudulent act of IS7C. It recommends that voters be urged to send petitions and to write letters or postal cards to theii representatives and senators, and in this manner to earnestly enter their protest against the overthrow of the money of the constitution and the enforcement upon them of the single gold stand ard.