572 ^- PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION G. 



means of defraying liabilities must proportionably decrease. These 

 Governments have a voice in the coimsels of the mother-coimtry — 

 let them exert their influence. Let them say to creditor England 

 — We must by some means be released from this strain ; we 

 demand your attention to the currency question ; its increase by 

 means of the remonetisation of silver gives promise of relief, and 

 your present apathy and inaction is irritating to us, and may 

 eventually bring us into the condition of inability and unwillingness 

 any longer to bear the intolerable bvirden. 



