The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1892-07-23
Resolutions Passed by the Helena
Mining Congress-.

The National Mining Congress
completed its labors at Helena,
Mont, and adjourned on the 18th.
The congress passed the following
resolution, which is to be sent to
the United States Congress:
We declare that the responsibility for
the bullion in silver dollars now coined
being of less intrinsic value than the
bullion in gold dollars rest solely with
those who demonetized silver and forced
the people to accept the laws of 1878
and 1890, by:which free coinage If silver
has been denied and the purchase of
bullion by the government in the lowest
markets Of the world substituted instead,
and declare our unalterabIe conviction,
based upon sound economic principles
and the actual experience of the world
between 1850 aud 1850, when the rela-
tive increase in production Of gold in
the United States and the rest Of the
world far exceeded the relative increase
of silver over gold during the last de-
cade, that the reconciliation of silver
by the United States at the existing ratio
will SPEEDILY restore the intrinsic value OF
the silver dollar TO that of the gold dollar.
While we demand that the intrinsic
value of the gold and silver dollar shall
be equal, we protest. against tue test
of value as to silver being made while
silver money is debased and the govern
ment engaged under the existing laws in
depressing the value Of bullion by pur-
chasing it in the lowest markets. We
declare the free bimetallic coinage of gold
! and silver at the existing ratio to he the
most important public question now IN
settled in the United States. As long as
there is lack of sound metal money upon
| which to do the business Of the country
and upon which, to base full and fair
volume Of governmental paper money we
urge that in every section of the country,
North as we'll as South, the true friends
of free bimetallic coinage shall make the
unquestioning friendship of every candi-
date for Office one of the chief tests of his
worthiness to receive SURFACES. That is
only by clearly discerning the right and
acting independently and unflinchingly
to undo this great wrong Of silver DEM
citation that the conspir acy to force upon
the United States single gold standard
Of money can be thwarted.
The efforts to influence the Pres
idential election took form in the
following resolutions:
WHEREAS, The theory Of the Constitu-
ton is that the Electors for President
shall be men of the highest dignity and
| integrity. fit to be intrusted with the
eravest concerns of the Nation, and that
they shall, when elected, be free to cast
ballots for such persons for President as
will best insure the safety. the honor and
prosperity If the country; and whereas
it has been the endeavor OF the opponents
of blmetalllc coinage to secure the election
Of candidates for the Presidency by the
Republican and Democratic parties, who,
il elected, will oppose the will of the
people by executive veto whenever Con
gress shall express it in free coinage
bill; and whereas, to vote for Electors
pledged in advance to select either one
or the other If them for President with
out conditions will he AN Endorsement in
advance of the purpose to defeat the pop.
ular will and whereas, in the silver States
there is but one sentiment in all three ma
tional parties in regard to the full re-
monet,xation Of silver; therefore, be it
Resolced, That wisdom and patriotism
both require that the people Of the
oliver States and the State conventions Of
all parties therein shall shape their action
80 - to secure the balance o: power, il
that be possible, in the Electoral College
to the end that the Electors elected BY
the people Of the silver States may % aci
independently ia the Electoral College a
to defeat the election of any man ~ Pres
ident who will not agree that the will Of
the people Is expressed in any future nc,
Of Congress in relation to silver shall
stand without executive interference OF
veto.
| That in order to meet the contingency
of the possible election Of president By
the present House Of Representatives thu
constituents Of the members Of the pres,
ent House be appealed to to demand q