Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1892-03-26
SILVER CLUBS IN STATES.

Colorado is now pretty we'll equipped
with non-partissn bi-metallic clubs.
says the Denver News, aud the good
they can accomplish may now be calcu-
lated.
The movement should not be confined
to Colorado; il should be earnestly taken
up in Montana, Idaho, Arizona, Nevada,
New Mexico and Utah. Wherever silver
is mined in the quantities that these
states and territories produced, every one
of their citizens has 9 direct personal
interest in active organization to secure
the enactment Of free silver coinage leg
islation.
The annual silver product OF these
seven states and territories is nearly
sixty.fve million dollars in value. Colo.
radios is abont s23, 900. 900, Montana's
sl7, 200, 900, Nevsds's $1,000, 900,
U.sh's So 900, 900, Idsho's $4,000. 900,
Arizona's 81, SOC, 900. and New Mexico's
81, 900, 900.
There is lost to them annually from
~silver's depreciation caused by its de.
monetizs.ion not less than 500, 000. 900;
and 1t is to save this vast sun annually
to their sturdy people that the efforts for
proper legislation should be made.
Let it be said that this is selfish view
to take OF . financial question. The
people Of Texas have secured millions OF
dollars from the federal treasury to
deepen the channel to Galveston harbor
by non-partisap. harmonious action.
New Orleans and the bordering Missis-
sippi river States have secured within
the last ten years more than s5O,OOo,-
900 from the same source to build ~ietties
and deepen the channel OF the Missis-
sippi river through like non. partisan,
harmonious action; and the people OF
| the mining States have as great an in
| c~entiye and as warrantable a motive for
| organization 10 better the price Of silver
as had the people Of Texas and the Mis-
sissippi States to improve their rivers and
harbors.
The bankers, brokers, money lenders
and annuity holders Of the East have
consolidated to defeat silyer's remoneti
cation. With them there is nj party.
They are professedly Republicans and
Democrats, to browbeat their parties
into enmity against free coinage, and,
failing in that. they vote with the party
that proves its creates enemy. They
have subsidized the press, filed the coun.
try with inAammatory literature, ter
rorized public men, forcing the great
majority of those who seek political ad-
vanoement to bend their knees to the
golden calf of Wall street rather than
suffer political extinguishment. They
have gained there present vantage ground
through unity Of purpose, the corruption
Of money, the limitless dissemination Of
falsehoods. and bulldozing and terroriz-
ing methods, that all would be ashamed
of except unreasoning fanatics and those
whose strongest moving impulse is the
lust Of gold.
While the organization of the gold
bugs has been solid. and their sggressions
almost demoniac, those whose interests
have hereby been most seriously inn
paired have remained inactive. While
the gold bugs have been terrorizing party
conventions into e~spousing their heart
less cause, the silver men have been sc
blinded by party zeal that they became
| their hewers Of wood and drawers oil
wafer in securing party success. Gold
bugs have nominated the tickets and de
clared the platforms, while silver mer
have spent their money and given theil
labor to elect the tickets their enemies
had nominated. This shall continue
until the silver men Of the country shall
in part pursue the tactics that their enc
mics have heretofore monopolized. Lei
the enemy continue TO lie and buy, but le'
the silver men try their hand at ont
united and determined effort TO free theil
parties from the grasp Of the Wall stree
octopus.
Colorado can do much alone, but
union Of Colorado. Montana, Nevada
Idaho. Arizona, Utah and New Mexico
to compel national conventions to defea
anti-silver coinage candidates and givede
cent recognition to the silver cause woult
prove irresistible.
The enemies Of silver must be met will
their own weapons. To make them ef
i~ective the silver States and Territories
should unite in the common cause. Non
partisan free coinage clubs are the foun
dalton Of this union; let them be or.
ganized on the basis Of the Colorsd,
clubs, that a great convention Of repre-.
sentatives from them all, upon the non.
partisan basis, can be held before thu
national political conventions shall meet
Will not the people Of Montana, Idaho
Arizona, Nevada. New Mexico and Utal
take up the movement without delay snt
push 1t to 9 grand success!
The 81. Louis Republic tDem.) is muel