The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1892-04-09
AN ABLE ADDRESS.
The Appeal Issued by the Colorado
Silver League.
An Address TO the Wealth Producing
Voters OF the Nation.

sends greeting:
We have undertaken great work
in your behalf as we'll as in our own,
and it is to secure your active Coop
Grafton in that work that we come to
you with this earnest appeal. We
have common interests, and those in
terests have common foe. 1t is for
the laudable purpose of asserting and
maintaining our rights that we are
banded together. Will you join usG
In consequence of one deliberate,
cowardly blow, dealt by the hand of
organized averice, we have for years
been groveling at the feet of insolent,
INSCRIPTIONS money-changers, whose
openly avowed purpose it has been
aud is to control and contract the
worlds volume of circulating money.
With that end IN view was the de-
monetization of silver accomplished.
The foul means which were used to
achieve that purpose are too well
understood to need discussion here.
The disastrous effect of that iniquit-
GUS scheme has 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 es-
pecially in the ruinous prices of wheat,
cotton and silver, as well as the con-
stautly falling prices of agricultural
lands, mines and labor. The distress
aud suffering which ii has bred
throughout the nation is beyond the
power of human mind to compute.
Year after year we have gone regu-
larly to the polls and persistently
fought each other, while working for
the supremacy of one or the other of
the two great political parties instead
of standing shoulder to shoulder to
meet and resist the attacks of COM
mon enemy.
Those parties, as they exist at present,
deem the spoils of Office of paramount
importance to the welfare of the peo-
pie. They are maintained 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 in
terests of the people, whose aid they
solicit, into the hands of the money
power. At the bidding of this same
power, they have placed the general
government on the level with the
stock broker; they have rendered
thousands of families homeless; they
have changed the telling debtor into
a cringing medicant, and from the
ranks of honest labor they have re-
cruited an army of tramps.
Ii a traveller was ever robbed on
the highway, then the silver miners
of our country-loyal, patriotic citi-
zrns--are now being robbed by the
general government at the rate of
$50, 900, 900 year. If, then, the sill
YER miners have just cause for COM
plant, 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 year have
tilched from their earnings more than
five times the annual loss of the silver
miners. Figures grow bewildering.
But if the miners, planters and far
mers have suffered loss that the hu-
man mind cannot comprehend, what
shall we say OF the 100000 OF idle
laborersl Not less than twenty-four
millions a week is the loss of the
wage-earners, the producers OF wealth.
In the face of these exasperating
outrages, what use have we for polit-
ical parties--so long as these parties
are deuominated by the peoples I'M
scrupulous foef
The people have complained and
and their complaints have been met
by sneers; they have murmured and
their murmurs have encountered de-
rision.
We are now firmly convinced that
further submission to these grievances
is simply to bare our back to the lash
of insatiate greed. Yes, 1t would be
to pursue course unworthy of Amer
leans, and unworthy of the manhood
which We boast.
There arc at this time in the State
of Colorado upwards of forty non
partisan silver clubs, and the number
is daily increasing. They have an
aggregate membership of over 10000
voters. Each member, upon joining,
pledges himself in writing that until