The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1892-07-07
LINCOLN COUNTY SILVER LEAGUE
An Appeal TO the Voters of Lincoln
County ia Behaff of silver

The following address has been put
forth by the Lincoln County Silver
League and copy sent to every voter in
the county The League is doing good
work in behalf Of the white metal and
its members feel confident that success
will crown their efforts:
Pursuant to call from "a number of
citizens, q mass meeting was held at the
Court house at Phoebe, April A, 1892, to
form an organization to politically adj
vance the cause Of silver. Those who
assembled deemed it advisable to form
said organization
First Because the money power of
these United States rests in the hands of
q few men who are in favor of O single
| gold standard Of money valuation, and
by controlling the finances of our coun-
try upon the basis of single gold stan
dard of money valuation, do monopolize
and control illegally and unrighttully
the financial affairs of this nation and
this nations people, to their own per
sonal profit, thereby expressing and
subiugating the farmer, the planter, the
miner, the mechanic and the laboring
and producing classes generally.
Second Because the act Of 1873
| ~. Al,
titously passed through Congress by
these monopolists and bondholders with
the aid of interruptions Legislators,
whose eyes were blinded, and who in
turn have tried to blind the eyes of the
people to the disastrous effect caused by
the passage Of said act, that certain
bonds issued by our national govern
ment to meet the exigencies of an en-
pensive civil war, upon which the inter-
est WAS payable in gold, might become
more valuable because of the demonct-
ization of silver and the adoption of the
single gold standard.
Third--Because the passage of said
act of decentralization has caused stop
page in the wheels of industry through
out this nation. It has caused our far
mers and planters to lose one-third OF
the value of their crops each year since
the passage of said infamous act. I. has
caused our mines to be shut down and
the population of Nevada to decrease to
an alarming extent. 1t is gradually
causing a paralization and stagnation Of
business throughout our State and re-
duction in the rate of wages paid tc
those who labor for livelihood through
ont the land. 1t has caused the principa
business of the country to fall into thu
hands of these few monopolists ant
stock spectators. who in their turn ar,
but the tools of the money kings of Eng
land, and has everywhere degraded AM
enslaved labor, and has caused and i
causing distress and financial ruin ey
cept in the matter of the bondholder
themselves, who have amassed collosa
fortunes at the expense of our ruin.
Fourth Because both the Republica
and Democratic parties have refused
, take any practical steps looking to
: reconciliation Of silver and rightin
l of this outrageous wrong, and to wipin
| out this most UNANIMOUSLY criminal Law
: as they could and should do in our hal
of Congress. Yet the fear of party d
;. feat at the hands of these monopolis
causes both Republican and Democrat
parties to cater to their wishes and st
a Cypress the people, though q MAORI
r of the people of this nation be in fay
Il of the free aud unlimited coinage
II silver.
l. Fifth Because we believe that
y united action upon our part as the frien
'. of silver we can secure the passage Of
Il law providing for the free and unlir.it
z: coinage of silver, We deem it our du
)" as citizens OF the United States, as t
~ fathers OF families, as the carers for a
- protectors Of the aged and infirm,
,s weak and helpless, as the patrons
ID labor, as the lovers OF truth, Of rig
Mt and of justice, to arise and demand fl
and unlimited coinage of silver; and
do this we must organize into one boo
II that our concerted action may have
H. more weight and force, and that {
n. strength and power may be shown a
lp felt, and that We may more properly
p sert the rights and make known the Y
w of a majority of the people.
Us Now, therefore, we do earnestly
on licit your cooperation in this matt
~. and would I've most pleased to rece
81 your name as member Of the "L
to coin County Silver League, under
to following
at PLEDGE
This League being organized for
purpose Of securing the remonetizat
of silver by the Federal Governmt
rst and believing that such remonetizat
ok. is paramount to all other political iss,
a pledges itself, and each of its meml
re- pledges himself. to oppose by all LEI
an mate means the election OF any man
yer any Office, National, State or County
red the election OF any delegate to any c
yn vention for the nomination of candid
ng ior uince' VINO is NOT an ayoweo III
In " tiie Tree ana unHIitcu coinage