People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1893 — THE ST. LOUIS CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

THE ST. LOUIS CONVENTION.

It* Work la Acceptable to the Friends of Silver. The resolutions adopted by the bimetallic convention at St Louis will ’ be generally acceptable to the friends of silver. They were moderate in tone, comprehensive in detail and plain in language. The delegates let the country know where they stand. U hile calling for a closer commercial and political alliance between the west and south the resolutions were not radical in tone, as some who are unacquainted with western and southern people feared they would be. Mutual protection and advancement is demanded along all legitimate lines. The attention of the north and east is called to the fact that the manufacturers of those sections cannot have prosperity while the south and west are depressed and without sufficient money to move their crops, develop new industries and purchase manfactured products. This is directly in line with the awakening that is now taking place in Pennsylvania and elsewhere in the east The demand for the free and unlimited coinage of silver cannot be misinterpreted nor misunderstood. Closer commercial relations for all countries favorable to free coinage is properly suggested. It would be folly to ask an alliance with the gold-bug countries while the silver nations are disorganized and totally independent of each other in their course and policy on the silver question. It was well enough to declare against a further issue of government bonds as contrary to the best interests of the country. At the same time a bond issue may be a necessary concession on the part of the silver men in order to prevent total demoralization of the white metal. It is not a time to bum all our bridges behind us. The demand for u financial policy that will present the congestion of cash at the eastern financial centers was well timed.

The invitation for the active co-oper-ation of the great mercantile interests in securing more direct routes to the ocean was particularly important. There is no cause that has militated against the development of the manufacturing Interests of the west and south, and the building up of their cities, more than the outrageous discriminations that have been instituted by the railroads in the interests of the long hauL We must protect ourselves; the railroads will lend no aid so long as their financial interests lie in the opposite direction. The convention did wisely in not approving that part of the minority report calling for an increase in the currency of the several .states based on bullion and hind values. The country has had enough of wildcatism. The free coinage issue must be kept to the fore.—Denver Times.