People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1893 — AN APPEAL. [ARTICLE]

AN APPEAL.

What the Unconditional Repeal of the Sherman Law Would Bring About. The executive committee appointed at the Chicago silver convention met in Washington and issued an “Appeal to the People,” signed by A. J. Warner, chairman, and George Washburn, seo-’ retary. The appeal declares that “congress has been convened in extra session, and the unconditional repeal of the present silver law is urged upon it. The repeal of this law will at once stop all inorease in the currency, place th« country on the Bingle gold standard and at one stroke change all debts to gold debts with the certainty that will thereafter continue to increase in value at an accelerated rate. The conspiracy to force this condition upon the people of this country is supported by powerful interests at home and abroad, with unlimited means to carry out their purpose, which they are determined to do, regardless of consequences to others.” After reciting the condition of the oountry the appeal continues: “This is tho people's cause and if they would keep their own and remain free men, must arouse and protect their rights and their homes from the grasping hands of the gold conspirators, wli<£ would produce European conditions in this if they could. The committee appointed at the Chicago Convention to resist the mad purpose to destroy silver as money and establish the single gold standard, calls upon tho 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 1878.” It is recommended that “at all assemblages, the resolutions and address adopted at the Chicago silver convention be read and that voters be urged to »end petitions and to write letters or postal cards to their 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 standard.”