Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1892-04-09
The silver League Convention o.
April ~ shouId he = Most
Enthusiastic Gathering.
rhe Issue IL silver and silver Men
Everywhere Must Ne Active
and vfgflant.

An ADDRESS TO THE WEALTH PRoDUc-
ING VOTERS OF HI NATION.
The Colorado State Silver League. on
behalf Of an army Of Colorado voters,
sends greeting:
We have undertaken q 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 in
~serests, and those interests have . com
mon foe. II is for the laudable purpose
Of asserting and maintaining our rights
that we are banded together. Will you
not join us?
In consequence Of one deliberate, cow.
srdly blow, dealt by the hand Of or
ganized a~varice, we have for years been
sroveling at the feet Of insolent, unscru-
p%ulous money-changers, whose openly
avowed pupose it has been and is to con-
troll and contract the worlds volume Of
circulating money.
With that end in view was the demone.
tization Of silver accomplished. The
foul means which we're used to achieve
that purpose are too we'll understood to
require discussion here.
The disastrous effects Of that iniqui-
tous scheme have been felt by each one
Of US. To-day they are plainly visible
on every hand, in the deprecated value
Of almost every commodity produced by
the labor Of human hands, and especially
in the r~uinous prices Of wheat. cotton
and silver, as well as in the 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
to the polls and presistently fought each
other. while working for the supremacy
of one or the other of the two great po-
litical parties instead of standing
shoulder to shoulder to meet and resist
the attacks Of one common enemy.
Those parties, as they exist at present,
deem the spells of Office Of paramount
Importance to the welfare of the people.
They are maintained chiefly for the bene.
fit Of self seeking politicians, whose most
lofty ambition Is paltry office. To at
tain that end they do not hesitate to
persistently 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 bid
ding Of this same money power, they
have placed the general government on q
level with the stock broker; they have
rendered thousands Of families homeless;
they have changed the toiling debtor
into a cringing medicant, and from the
ranks Of honest labor they have recruited
an army Of tramps.
IL tInfcicE was oNSt AoooCu ~ shS
highway, then the silver miners Of our
country-loyal. patriotic citizens-are
now being robbed by the general govern.
ment at the rate of $50, 900. 900 . year.
II, 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 an
nually; or Of the wheat growers of the
North and West, who year after year
have flched from their earnings more
than Eve times the annual loss Of the sill.
YER miners Figures grow bewildering.
But If the miners. planters and farmers
have suffered . loss that the human mind
connot comprehend, what shall we say
Of the 2.000.O 900 of idle laborers. Not
less than twenty-four millions q week is
the loss of the wage earners, the pro-
ducers Of wealth.
In the face of these exasperating out
RACES, what use have we for political
parties-so long as those parties are
dominated by the peoples INSCRIPTIONS
foef
The people have complained and their
complaints have been met by sneers;
they have murmured and their murmurs
have encountered derison.
We are now firmly convinced that fur
Their submission to these grievances is
simply to bare our backs to the lash
OF insatiate greed. Yes, it would be to
pursue . course unworthy Of Americans.
and unworthy Of the manhood which we
boast.
There are, at this tima, in the State Of
Colorado upwards Of forty ~non-partisan
silver clubs, and the number is daily in
creasing. They have an aggregate mem.
bership Of we 20, 900 voters. Each
member, upon joining. pledges himself in
writing that until this question shall be
and silver restored to Its right
full position in the money Of the nation.
be will vote for no candidate for any i'm
position who is not fully COM
to the reconciliation Of silver.
In addition to this, representatives Of
.hese various clubs assembled in the city
If Denver on the 18th inst. and perfected
he organization Of a State Silver league.
they also issued a call for q State Silver
convention. to assemble in this city on
The 25th Of April, prox.-upon . basis Of