The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-04-02
COLORADO EAGUE
Issues an Address to thu Wealth
Producing Voters Of the
Nation.
Common interests Should, Be Su
perior to Any Previous k'olit-
ical Allegiance.
r,,.,o,aort silver Clubs Arc ] 3, sing Or
r.n,zed All Over Colorado, Wi M Rap
idly Increasing Msmbersh ".

DENVER, April The recent co,s vention
of tho Colorado State Silver league Issued
the following:
An Address to the Wealth Producing voters
of the Nation:
The Colorado State Silver league, I. on be-
half of an army of Colorado voters. SENDS
greeting: .
We have undertaken a great wtMIrk IN
.u h.h.,f 40 val, as in our own,a ni il il
: aoorra vonr active cooperation in. that
-. ~. ~. ,,,,a tn Won With this learn
est appeal. We have common lntea eses'
and those interests have a common foe IL
ia for the laudable purpose OF asserting anu
maintaining our rights that we are pan "eo
together. Will You not join us9
II, consequence of one deliberate, q "
aralv blow. dealt by the hand of organli ed
~ayarice, we have for years been groveiaf ~
at the feet of insolsnt, INSCRIPTIONS mons y
changers. whose openly avowed purpose IT
hns been and 10 to control and contract ieae
worlds volume of circulating money.
With that end in view was the demon te-
tization of SILVER accomplished. The tttai
n,sans which were used to achieve I'll tat
nnrnose ara too we'll understood to reQu. re
discussion here.
The disastrous effects of that %iniquito' IS
scheme have been felt by each one OF u ..
To-day they are plainly visible on ever y
hand, in the deprecated value OF almo ~
every commodity produced by the labor "a
human hands. and especially in the rulnou =
prices of wheat, cotton and silver. as WelE
as in the constantly falling prices OF agrl-
cultural lands. mines and labor. The DIS
tress and suffering which it has bred
throughout the nation is beyond the power
of the human mind to compute.
Year after year we have gone regularly to
the polls and persistenly fought each other,
while working for the supremacy OF one
or the other Of the two great political par
ties. instead of standing shoulder to shout
dor to meet and resist the attacks of one
common enemy. Those parties, as they ex-
ist at pr esent, deem the spoils of office of
paramount Importance to the welfare of
the people. They are maintained chiefly
for the benefit of self-seeking politicians,
whose most lofty ambition is paltry Office.
To attain that end they do not hesitate to
persistently betray the interests of the peo-
BE. whose aid they solicit, into the hands
of the money power. They are partlsans
for revenue only. At the bidding Of this
same money power they nave placed the
general government on a level with the
Stock broker; they have rendered thousands
Of families homeless; they have changed
thu toiling debtor into a cringlng mendl-
cant. and from the ranks of honest labor
they nave recruited an army OF tramps..
If a traveller was ever robbed on tho high
way, then the silver miners Of our country
lorn1 MoAriatiH cJtlZANE-RrA now being
robbed by the general government at the
rate of $50, 600, 600 a year. If, then, the sill
yer miners have just cause for complaint,
what shall we say of the cotton growers OF
the south, who lose more than four times
that amount annually; or of the wheat
growers of the north and west, who year
after wear have flched from their earnings
moro thar five times the annual loss of the
silver miners? Figures grow bewilderlng.
But if the miners, planters and farmers
have suffered a loss that the human MINI
cannot comprehend, what shall we say OF
the 1000, OOo Of idle laborers9: Not less than
twenty-four millions a week is the loss of
tbs wage carriers, the producers of wealth.
In the face of these e1asperatlng out
RACES, what uas have we of political parties
so long as those parties are dominated by
the peoples unsorupuloas foe.
complaints have been met by sneers; they
have murmured and their murmnrs have
encountered derision.
We are now firmly convinced that fur
ther submission to these grievances is sim
ply to bare our backs to the lash of insa-
tiate greed. Yes, it would be to pursue a
course unworthy of Americans and un-
worthy of the manhood which We boast.
There arc at this time in the state of
Colorado mp wards of forty non-partisan
silver clubs, and the number ia daily in
crcasinR. They have All aggregate mem
bership of over 10000 voters. Each mem
Der upon Joining pledges himself III writ
ing that until this question shall bs set
tied, and silver restored to it rightful posi-
ton in the money OF the nation, he will
vote for no candidate for any important
position who is not fully committed to she
remonetization of silver. In addition tt
this, representatives of the various clubs
assembled in the city of Denver on tho
26th inst. and perfected the organization Of
q state silver league. They also issued
call for a state silver conyentlon--to as
semble in this city on the 10Th of April
~pro1.-upona basis OF representation from
the various county and local organizations
This organization, however, asksno mem
Der to forsake his party affiliations unit
this forthcoming national convention of hi
party shall have neglected or refused tt
comply with our request for the nomina
tlon of 4 freq coinage candidate for tn
presidency, on d free coinage platform
With that end in view, we urge the mos
perfect county and precinct organization
We urge the most faithful and dlligent at
tentlon to the PRIMARIES, to the eud tina
this county and state conventions may no
be controlled by professional politicians
We urge that the delegations to the m
tional conventions shall be com posed of th
very best men that the respective parties i
our state can produce-always giving du
notice, however, that no candidate whof
such national convention shall nominal