The Elk Mountain pilot., 1885-04-16
Ths Colorado Silver Alliance.

Last evening at meeting Of the
Colorado Silver Alliance, held in the
Superior Court room, T. B. Buchanan
was elected President; G. G. Merrack
Vice President; J. D. Davis, Secretary;
Hon. G. G. Symes, Treasurer; Hon.
James B. Belford, Chairman of the
Board of Managers. Meetings will be
held every Monday evening to con-
slider plans and measures for promot-
ing like organizations, and circulating
all printed matter advocating the sus-
tanning silver in position with gold and
opposing in every way possible further
money contraction.-Denvcr 7;7dnne-
Rebubhlan.
This is step in the right direction
and the society should be encouraged
and assisted by the friends OF silver
everywhere. A branch organization
should be brought into existence in
every city and mining camp west of
the Missouri River, and Colorado
should be first to set an example for
her sister states and territories in this
good work. The facts in regard to
silver as a standard of value and its
use as currency need to be sown
broadcast throughout the Union, and
especially in the agricultural and man.
ufacturing districts of the eastern and
middle states, where the laboring peo.
plo read nothing and hear nothing but
the false teachings ofthe gold bugs.
Capital, as everybody knows, is aver
lcious, and 1t never allows an oppor-
tunity to pass whereby 1t might extend
its vampire wings over anothervlctim.
Capital, wheu kept within proper
bounds and in legitimate channels, IS
blessing to humanity, bu. when al
lowed to concentrate into monopoly
centres and hold uncontrolled sway
over nation, it soon saps the heart
and life from the very foundation of
government, (the laboring people,
and it stands a tottering wreck, ready
to be washed out of existence in blood
and tears, by the strong arm of rebell-
ION upl,fted in the cause Of oppressed
and suffering humanity.
But to tesurn to the subject. Every
miner and prospector in Colorado
should belong to this organization and
assist with voice and pocketbook in
spreading the gospel Of financial saliva
ton for the working people into every
village and hamlet in the Un,'ed
States from Manitoba to TEXTS and
Maine to California. Underneath the
principle Of unlimited silver coinage
lies in a great measure the welfare of
the laboring people, and they constl-
tute nlne-terths of the entire popu-
lation. The great underlying question
is, "Shall our currency be. expanded ?
Or shall it be contracted ?" The vital
part Of the whole subject of silver
coinage is there in eight or ten words.
Is there a laboring man anywhere in
the whole nation who would hesitate
for moment in saying that an expan-
sion of the currency would benefit his
CLASP We think not. The doctrine
of the Greenbackers in regard to the
expansion of the currency mediating
and alleviating the condition Of the
laboring classes, was true, but they
built their superstructure upon an i'm
aginary base, and the result was, it
fell to the ground. NJ one denied
that an expansion Of the currency
would benefit the poorer classes, but
sensible naen Of all classes objected to
getting, on board an a,r-shlp from
which there was no way to reach terra
f,ma but to leap down at the risk OF
losing their lives, and we can't blame
them. A strip of brown paper is not
as valuable as a financial anchor, 50 to
speak, as a bar of silver bullion. In
the one case the expansion is purely
imaginary, in the other It is real; bu,
the results would be the thesame until
our national supremacy should be Sc
riously threatened, as it no doubt will
be at some time in the future; then the
Greenback bubble would collapse and
the country would be left financial