The Lamar register., 1893-07-22

tucir 1nQl8n 1uDleck. Inc power tnot cOulo
plot for a years, that could force its yoke
upon Germany, the Latin Union, Austria and
the United States; that could gain to its aid
the daily press Of the country; that could
control for 20 years the national conventions
Of the great American political parties
granting In their platforms professions Of BIZ
metallism, but always securing the presiden-
tial candidates unalterably opposed to 1t, that
could change an everlasting sentiment among
the people for bimetallism to q feeling OF en-
nifty or indifference, can never be induced to
relent, for It has counted the cost and has
learned its power.
The Sherman law is not the work of the sill
yer producing states. 1t was forced upon the
country against their will Their constant
demand has been that of the agricultural
states of the West and South, and Of the
working masses of the whole country. They
have not sought to impose upon the country
some new financial nostrum, but have asked
for the restoration of the coinage laws as
they were from the first year OF the federal
constitution until the furtiye repeal OF 1873.
The Sherman law was the trick by which that
bi-metallists as pledge that the old laws
should, at some future time. be restored, and
they now demand, not that the Sherman law
shall be retained. but that the hostage shall
be redeemed by the re-enactment in its stead
of the coinage laws under which the country
| grew and prospercd for more than three
| quarters of century.
The charge that the bi-metallists demand
1t was the trick of the single-standard con-
spirators that lesscned the value of silver.
Had gold been demonetized instead OF silver.
retaining for silver Its greatest use and
chiefcst function, and depriving gold OF Its
greatest and chiefest function, gold would
not to-day be worth IS per ounce and silyer's
value and purchasing power would be ln-
creased largely above Its former highest hg-
ure. What b-mctallists do ask, and all they
ask, Is that the law relating to coinage as It
was for the seventy-ive years of the country's
greatest glory shall be restored without the
addition or expunging Of a syllable. II, with
| that law re-enacted and fair trial of II had,
silver shall not, without the purchase OF an
ounce of metal by the government, resume
Its former relative value with gold, bl-metal-
lists will cheerfully submit TO any legislation
that experience will suggest as necessary to
| make every dollar OF the United states equal
| In intrinsic value to every other doll ar bear
| Ing its stamp. They urge the old law with
| supreme confidence, born of the unassallable
| truths OF history. that it viii Immediately
place every coined American dollar upon
! par OF value both coin and bullion, restore
| the bonds OF weakened love and confidence
and set In happy motion the wheels OF all the
| country's magnificent industries.
| VIII you listen to while we speak In
words of sober earnestness of the local effects
/ OF the unconditional repeal OF the silver law
/ will havei
The silver mIning states and territories,
embracing i,0OO,00O square miles of the con-
| tllelt, Win AtnerlcAus luuubltiuR
them, depend peculiarly upon silver mining
for their prosperity. That industry Is the
very heart from which nearly every other in
dustry receives support Agriculture Will
not thrive without artificial irrigation, It's
mines of coal, iron, stone and clay, while
| magnificent, are worked with such dear labor
| and remote from other than local mar
| kets that their movement would be feeble and
| their operation disastrous without the stimu-
lous the mining industry affords. II supports
| our foundries, operates our machine shops,
| supplies our railroads with freishts, stlmu-
lates travel, keeps bright the fires OF the
smelters, and sends customers TO the shops OF
| our merchants. 1t has invoked in the valleys
and upon the mountain sides magnificent
cities and thrifty towns and villages. Great
manufactures of paper, cotton, leather, iron,
steel and class distribute their finished pro-
| ducts and support thousands OF prosperous
and happy families But because agriculture
! Is so limited in area-conhned to narrow
strips along our few and scanty sueams-our
| labor so high, and Its handiwork so remote
| from other than the local markets, the coal is
| mined. the coke Is burned, the rail is rolled,
| the grain is grown. the fruit Is gathered In
the main for the owners and workers in silver
| mines and smelters, and the proprietors aud
| workmen of the industries and callings de-
| pendent upon them.
| . The reduction OF the price of silver to about
20 cents has shut down 30 per cent of the sill
| yer mines Of the country and the smelters
must soon follow their example, There are
I
/ know not where to turn II work is not re-
| sumed There will soon be added to this idle
| army of labor 200 men from the sDelters.
| The stone quarries are nearly all shut down.
the railroad companies are laying OF train
| crews by the score, the foundries are nearly
| all out OF orders, the farmers and fruit grow
| ers will be barely paid for the cost Of saving
| their crops, the merchants are countermand-
| ing their eastern orders, the travelling men
for eastern houses seek almost in vain for
| customers. This is no exaggcration. The
| destruction of the silver industry will devas-
tate the country as II swept by cyclone
reaching from the British possessions to the
| Mexican border line. This sorrowful picture
/ of Colorado with Its mining industry de-
| stroyed but represents the condition of the
| other mining states and territories with the
same calamity upon them.
II the silver mines shall remain closed, one
! half of the American output of lead must be
lost The greatest bulk of the lead product
| is taken from the silverb bearing ores. 1t re-
quires the one metal supplemented by the
| other to remunerate the lead-silver miner. IL
the market for silver is broken down, the lead
cannot be produced.
Not less than So per cent of the gold prod
uct of the country depends upon the main
| tenance of the silver industry. The placer or
creek washings, the earliest and most pro-
| life sources OF our gold supplv,are practically
exhausted That metal Is now taken from
! leads-one-half of 1t from silver leads-as
by-product of silver mining, which, unless
the mines may be proitably worked for silver
will never be added 10 the worlds store OF
gold.
Those who contend for the gold single
standard vIIfully mlsleai YOU as to the cost of