The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1892-04-09
IN BEHALF OF SILVER.
AN ADDRESS TO THE WEALTH PRO.
DUClNG MILLIONS

all Interested to Organize Free Silver
CIubs-Vigilance Demanded Everywhere
In Unity There is Strength.
The Colorado State Silver League, on
behalf of an army of Colorado voters,
sends greeting:
We have undertaken a great work in
your behalf as well as in our own, and it
is to secure your active cooperation in
that work that we come to you with this
earnest appeal. We have common inter
foe. 1t is for the laudablc purpose Of
asserting and maintaining our ghts that
we are banded together. Will you not
join us? ..-..
In consequence Of one deliberate, cow
ardly blow, dealt by the hand Of organ
lied avaricc, we have for years been
groveling at the feet Of insolcnt, unscru-
pulous money changers, whose openly
avowed purpose it has been and is to con
troll and contract the world volume Of
circulating money. ."#
With that end in view was the demon
citation Of silver accomplished. The
foul means which We're used to achieve
that purpose are too well understood to
require discussion Here
Thr disastrous effects Of That iniuui-
tous scheme have been felt BY each one
~ us 40 day tAcy are plainly visible
on every hand, il the deprecated value
Of almost every commodity produced ~
the lahorof human hands, and especially
IN the ruinous prices ol wheat, cotton
ana silver, as well as ii thc constantly
falling prices of agricultural lands. mines
and labor. The distress 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
70 the polls and persistently fought each
other, while working for the supremacy
Of one or the other Of two great political
parties instead Of standing shoulder to
shoulder to meet and resist the attacks
Of one common enemy. Those parties,
Us they exist at present, deem the spoils
Of Office Of paramount Importance to the
welfare Of the people. They are main
tanned chiefly for the benefit Of self
seeking politicians, whose most lofty
ambition is paltry office. To attain that
end they do not hesitate to persistcntly
betray the interests Of the people, whose
aid they solicit, into the hands of the
money power. They are partisans for
revenue only. At the bidding Of this
same money power, they have placed the
general government on a level with the
stock broker: they have rendered thou
sands of families homeless; they have
changed the toiling debtor ipto u cring-
ing mendicant, and from the ranks Of
honest labor they have recruited an army
Of tramps. ..:... ".#
If 4 Traveller was ever robbed on the
highway, then the silver miners Of our
country loyal, patriotic citizens are
now being robbed by the general govern
mcnt at the rate Of S20,0o0,O0o IL year.
If, then, the silver 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 annu-
ally, or Of the wheat growers Of the
north and west, who year after year have
tilched from their earnings more than
| five times the annual loss Of the silver
miners? Figures grow bewildering. But
| ii the miners, planters and farmers have
| suffered a loss that the human mind can
not comprehend, what shall we say OF the
| 2,OOO,O0O of idle labOrcrs? Not less than
S24,o0Q,000 a week is the loss of the wage
earncrs the producers Of wealth.
| In the face Of these eXasperating out
RACES, what use have we for political
partes--so long as those parties are dom
| mated by the peoples INSCRIPTIONS foe:
The people have complained and their
complaints have been met by snccrs;
they have murmured and their murlnurs
have encountered derision
We are now firmly convinced that fur
ther submission to these grievances is
simply to bare our hacks to the lash OF
insutiate greed Yes, it would be to pur-
sue a course unworthy Of Americans,
and unworthy Of the manhood Of which
we boast.
There are at this time, in the state OF
Colorado, upwards of forty non partisan
silver clubs. and the number is daily In
creasng They have an aggregate mem
bership of over 10000 voters. Each
member, upon joining, pledges himself
in writing that until this question shall
be settled and silver restored to its right
full position in the money OF the nation
he will vote for no candidate for any i'm
portant position who is not fully commit
ted to the reconciliation of silver. In
addition to this, representatives Of these
various clubs assembled in the city OF
Denver on the Goth ult. and perfected the
organization of a state silver league
They also issued a call for a state silver
convention-to assemble in this city or
the 25th of April-upon a basis Of repre-
sentation from the various county anc
local organizations.
! This organization, however, asks nc
member to forsake his party affiliations