Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1861-04-18
Miners Meetings.

held at Hazel Green, TO agree to throw out
all bank paper for mineral This beats the
Chicago Bankers, and if carried through
will manage the wolf without taking him
by the ears. The proceedings and resolu-
tons Of the Hazel Green miners are pub
tished in the local papers and can be seen
in another column. Tie miners Of Shulls-
burgh have also held meeting for a like
object. There being but one feeling among
miners, to refuse paper for mineral, vopld
it not be better to hold general conyen-
ton Of miners, at some central place IN the
mines, in view Of taking some action that
would be uniform. True, this course
should have been taken before the banks
arrived at their present power, and before
they managed to exclude all the gold and
introduced bank paper to take the place OF
gold--or rather, lists of the State debts OF
Missouri and other States which are now
discredited Better still to have aeld on
to a gold currency while we had it, and
driven the first smelter from the country
who infringed upon the old practice Of
"gold for mineral" by offering paper
Years ago, the people Of the mines voted
almost unanimously against banking law
but the east part Of the State was too
strong for us and carried the law which
has since begotten banks that hage ealmin-
ated in driving the people of the whole
State out into the cold without any curren-
CIV or cold to clothe and feed them or give
labor to the needy. Where row is the
promised home currencyl where now the
promised banks to loan money at low rates
of interest! Instead of these, our gold has
departed because our money was not cur
rent abroad; our paper is at home-the
mere ragged promises to pay Of Missouri
and Missouri indebted near thirty millions,
with resources inferior to Wisconsin! Still,
there are men in our midst, trembling with
fear ABOUT the forthcoming war and des-
truction Of our currency; thus, banking in
Wisconsin has begotten timidity, coward
ice, and disgrace as well as poverty
Very we'll, let the miners hold general
Convention and finally resolve to kick the
behind Of every smelter who offers rags
for mineral; this will cause smokers to not
offer paper to the more needy miners, the
richer ones being able to say "no" without
fear. If smelters, who ought 10 be the
guardians Of miners in money matters, can't
raise gold for mineral, Jet the mineral be
sent to foreign places where it will bring
hard money. If miners are to be limited
to receive only Missouri bonds in round
about way and then after subdivision Of
such bonds into greasy dollar, two dollar
and three dollar bits by Wisconsin and Hi
nois BANKERS, why not at once send off the
mineral to %all-Street and exchange the
same for full-breed, nice, clean, 800, bonds,
at 10000 per bond. Let every miner be
his own bond dealer, draw his coupon in
terest from Missouri and do his own stock
banking. This exchanging Missouri debfs
for mineral is not an honest transaction,
bps was designed az swindle and is swim
dle--howeYer solemnly sanctioned by law
and not condemned by the church.
This is the second time that Wisconsin
Banks have flooded the mines with paper
and then made their paper worthless; it
was done in territorial times by banks loca-
ted at Mineral Point, and Green Bay;
much of which paper is yet preserved as
testimony that bank swindlipg is not new
game that il is as old as cut-throat poker,
seven-up or faro. Miners meetings and
conventions were then held to firmly estab-
lish gold and silver as the only just equivo-
lent for mineral. The rates then adopted
were firmly adhered to for more than TWEEN
ty years. Only Of late have such rules
been abandoned, because a new race ofless
experienced miners. snaeiters and business
men have arisen; these latter have now
found BY experience that their predecessors
were right in fixing bard money as the on
" equivalent for mineral Let them act at
once, call i general miners convention, re-
solve for gold currency and then enforce
their resolves in proper way. The far
,mers hays been bitten and many Of them
may join the miners in a covenant TO sell
their crops for the only money which can
stand the tests Of time and circumstances
gold and silver; if at this day, after
thousands of millions of gold have been
taken from the California and Australian
mines, we are still to submit to paper
currency, when shall Be the time for 4 pure
metallic currency! If mineral can't now
command the gold, when can I'll The plea