Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1893-07-22
Efres,s Vt UncoudItIou.l Repeal.


the unconditional repeal OF the silver law viii
havey
"The silver mining states and territories. EN-.
hracing 1000 900 square miles OF continent with
100000 Americans inhabiting them, depend
pecuniarily upon silver mining for their pros.
perity That industry Is the very heart from
which nearly every other industry receives sup
port Agriculture will not thrive without arti.
hcial irrigation; its mines OF COAL iron, stone
and clay while magnificent are worked with
such dear labor and are 30 remote from other
local markets that their movement would be
feeble and their operation disastrous withous
the stimulus the mining industry affords.
II supports our foundries operates
our machine shops, supplies our railroads
with freights, stimulates travel keeps bright
the fires OF the shelters ana sends customers
70 tho shops OF our merchants 1t has invoked
In the valleys and upon mountain sides magnif.
icent cities and thrifty towns and villages.
Great manufactures OF paper, cotton, leather,
iron, steel and clays distribute their finished
products and support thousands OF prosperous
and happy families. But because agriculture
is SO limited in area-conAned to narrow strips
along our few md scanty streams-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 and workmen OF
the industries and callings AZ dependent upon
them
Idle Army OF Labor.
'srhe reduction OF the price OF silver to about
70 cents has shut down % per cent OF the sill
YER mines Of the country, and the smelters
must soon follow their example There ore In
Colorado today 1890 idle miners who know
not where to turn IL work Is not resumed
There will soon be added 10 this idle army
OF labor 1910 men from the smsters. Tho
stone quarres are nearly all shu. down. the
railway companies are laying of train crews by
tho score, the foundries IRE nearly all out Of
orders the farmers and fruit growers will be
barely paid for the cost OF saving their crops,
the merchants are countermanding their or
ders, the travelling men for eastern houses
seek almost In vain for customers.
"This Is no exaggcration. The destruction Of
the silver industry will devasta'e 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 destroyed but represents
the condition Of the other mining states and
territories with the same calamity upon them
Lead and Gold Dependent.
IT the silver mines shall remain closed one
half OF the American output Of lead must be
lost The great bulk Of the lead product In
taken from silver.bearing ores. 1t requires the
one metal supplemented by the other TO re-
munerate the lead-silver miner.
mot less than 80 per cent OF tho 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 source Of our gold supply, are practically
exhausted.
Those who contend for the gold single stand
ard willfully mislead you as to the cost OF pro-
ducing silver We say to you in the most sol
emn and truthful manner that reliable statis-
tics prove that, including but legitimate items
In the account. the silver OF Colorado costs by
the time II Is on the market not less than sls9
an ounce. Like gold some silver is produced
for much less than its market value, but the
average cost OF silver is fully the highest price
IL ever brought in the market
Question of Paying Creditors.
"All OF the mining states and territories are
debtor class. Stop and consider, men OF the
east, how many millions OF your money are in
vested with us. The funds OF estates OF widows
and orphans have been loaned on our lands and
have built our edifices. Colorado has been q
favorite field for such investments. Have tho
people OF any state ever proved more p2nctili-
Gus In prompt repayment? The Legislature has
enacted laws cruel to its own people and I'm
rivaled in liberality to the creditors That no
man might shirk or escape repayment Of the
borrowed dollar. There are held throughout
the east hundreds OF millions Of dollars In rail.
road stocks and bonds, In municipal securities,
in trusts and mortgages, the payment OF the
greatest body Of which depends upon the pros
perity OF the silver mining country.
1--WE OF Colorado pride ourselves upon our
commercial and financial integrity. No calami-
ty can induce US TO renudiate one dollar OF IN
honest debt All Of our assets are at the will OF
our creditors for their reimbursement But II
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congress you shall wipe out the great industry
OF the section around which oil others cluster
for vigor and profit, the values OF our proper
ties will shrink, our business will be destroyed.
our towns and cities will be largely depopulated
and the railroads traversing the western half
of the continent will be sent into bankruptcy.
Certainly in the face OF such unmerited indio-
ton you cannot blame US II we arc thus de-
prived Of all ability to meet our obligations
You may, It Is true, take the country in pay
ment but after you get It what will you do
Not Ready to Submit.
'But, though you may do all IN your power,
whether In ignorance or through selfish greed.
TO destroy US, we will not submit 10 the destiny
Of poverty without a struggle We shall seek
to open up new markets and build up our silver
along new lines and with new and
moro sympathetic neighbors Colorado has
aided with her vote TO build the tariff wall be-
tween this country and Mexico and the silver
and using republics OF the southern
continent As Senator Teller, one OF tho
staunchest supporters Of this exclusive policy,
declared but two years ago in the United States
senate, II was not In Colo-ados interest 10
vote for such isolation, but Colorado thinking
more OF her sister states than herself, had pa
sacrificed her own in their interest
Special Appeal to the south.
ITO the south Colorado appeals with more