The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1892-07-14
LINCOLN COUNTY SILVER LEAGUE
An Appeal TO the Voters OF Lincoln
County tn Behalf Of 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 number OF ,
citizens, mass meeting was held at the
Court. house at Phoebe, April 4, 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
few men who are in favor of 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 unrightfully
the financial affairs Of this nation and
this nations people, to their own per
sonal profit, thereby expressing and
subjugating the farmer, the planter, the
miner, the mechanic and the laboring
and producing classes generally.
Second Because the act of 1873
which dcmonetized silver WAS surrep-
titously passed through Congress by
these monopolists and bondholders with
the aid OF inscriptions legislators,
whose eyes we're 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 ex-
pensive civil war, upon which the inter-
est was payable in gold, might become
more valuable because of the demonet-
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. |. has
caused our mines to be shut down and
the population of Nevada to decrease to
an alarming extent. 1t is gradually
causing paralizatlon and stagnation of
business throughout our State and re-
duction in the rate of wages paid to
those who labor for livelihood through
out the land. 1t has caused the principal
business of the country to fall into the
hands of these few monopolists anc
stock spectators. who in their turn are
but the tools of the money kings of Eng
land, and has everywhere degraded ant
enslaved labor, and has caused and il
causing distress and fnancial ruin ex
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 t
take any practical steps looking to
reconciliation of silver and rightin
of this outrageous wrong, and to wipin
out this most UNANIMOUSLY criminal law
as they could and should do in our hall
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 sti
, Cypress the people, though a majorit
a of the people of this nation be in fav'
' of the free aud unlimited coinage
r silver.
t Fifth Because we believe that
united action upon our part as the frien
of silver we can secure the passage of
q law providing for the free and unlimit
e coinage Of silver, we deem it our du
% as citizens of the United States, as t
fathers of families, as the carers for al
c protectors OF the aged and infirm, t
= weak and helpless, as the patrons
"A labor, as the lovers of truth, of rig
,r and Of justice, to arise and demand fl
1t and unlimited coinage of silver; and
v. do this we must organize into one boo
~ that our concerted action may have
=. more weight and force, and that
40 strength and power may be shown q
felt, and that we may more properly
at sert the rights and make known the Y
ey of majority of the people.
a, Now, therefore. we do earnestly
W licit your cooperation in this matt
hv and would be most pleased to rece
". your name as member of the
coin County Silver League. under
ie- following
It'll This League being organized for
purpose Of securing the remonetizat
nd Of silverAsby the Federal Governmt
de and believing that such remonetzat
EN- is paramount to all other political issr
ire pledges itself, and each of its memt
nd pledges himself, to oppose by all LEG
vim mate means the election of any man
mo- any Office, National, State or County
- the election of any delegate to any c
"a vention for the nomination of candid,
~ for Office, who is not an avowed fri
Gu to the free and unlimited coinage
nts silver, and the nominees of any con,
ton whose platform does not den,
tty such free and unlimited coinage