The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1892-04-07
FIGHTING FOR SILVER
.aL&.Y $40
An Address to the Millions.
BY the Colorado STATE Sill
ver League

We publish below an address from
the Colorado state silver league, a
nonpartisan organization. 1t en-
braces sentiments dear to the heart of
every man in Washington county, Of,
whatever political persuasion he may
be-
The Colorado State Silver League,
on behalf of an army of Colorado
voters, sends greeting:
We have undertaken great work
in your behalf as well 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 Its for
the laudable purpose of asserting and
maintaining our rights that we are
banded together VIII you not join
us?
In consequence of one deliberate,
cowardly blow, dealt by the hand of
organized avarice, we have yor years
been groveling at the feet of insolent,
anscrupulous money changers, whose
openly avowed purpose it has been
and is to control and contract the
worlds volume of circulating money.
With that end in view was the demon
etization of silver accomplished. The
foul means which were used to achieve
that end are too well understood to
require discussion here. W
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 depreci-
ated value Of almost every commodity
produced by the labor of human
hands, and especially in the ruinous
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 be-
yond the power of the human mind to
compute. N .ltti HH
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
two great political parties instead of
standing shoulder to shoulder to meet
and resist the attacks of one common
enemy.
If a traveller was ever robbed on the
highway, then the silver miners OF
our country-loyal, patriotic citizens
are now being robbed by the gen
eral government at the rate of $40,
900, 600 year. 1t, then, the silver
miners have just cause for complaint,
what shall we say of the cotton grow
ers of the south, who lose more thar
four times that amount annually; OF
of the wheat growers of the nortl
and west, WHO year after year have
dlched fIom their earnings more thar
Eve times the annual loss of the silver
mu.ers? Figures grow bewildering
But E.tlle miners, planters and farm
ers have suffered loss that the hu.
man mind tann6t comprehend, what
shall we say of the two millions ot
idle laborers? Not less than twenty
foar millions a week is the loss OF the
wage earners, the producers O
: wealth
In the face OF these exasperatins
'iouuages, what use have we for polit
ical parties SO long as those partiei
are dominated by the peoples unscru
pulous foe? -,
The people have complained an'
their complaints have been met b,
sneers; they have -mufmured ant
their murmurs have encountered de
rision.
We are now firmly convinced tha
further submission to these grievance
is simply to bare our backs to the las
: of insatiate greed. Yes, it would b
II to pursue course unworthy of Amer
leans, and unworthy of the manhoo
which we boast. .rr. ~--rs.f
There are, at this time, ia the stat
of Colorado, upwards Of forty nor
., partisan silver clubs, and the numbe
:. is daily increasing. They have a
!; aggregate membership of over 20, 90
L 1.