People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1893-01-13
COLORADO AND SILVER.
The People Of the Centennial State MeaI
Business Beyond Doubt.

1Hdt JHc IeNOluIlOu WHICH occurred at
the polls in Colorado on Nov. 5 was not
simply the passionate outburst of tenn
porary dissatisfaction with the two old
parties is evidenced by what the citizens
Of that sterling little state nave done
since. Every thinking adherent Of the
Peoples party knows that a majority Of
the $1,000 votes that were cast for
Weaver and Field in Colorado were in
duenced by the silver plank in the plat
form upon which they stood. The over
throw of the Republican party for the
first time in the history of the state by
majority of $1,000 was due to the fact
that both the Republican and Demo
cratic parties are avowed enemies of
the white metal.
1t is admitted that the clean sweep
made by the Peoples party state ticket
by majorities averaging over 1000, and
headed by candidate for governor who
is purely Peoples party man, was due
to the attitude assumed toward silver
by the three leading parties. But all
these things being granted, there can be
no doubt that Colorado is today as much
a Peoples party state as Kansas and
will so remain until the important dec
larations Of the party become the law
Of the land.
There is no prospect that the Demo
cratic congress and president will enact
free coinage law, and Colorado will
be satisfied with nothing short of free
coinage. Already Senator Hill has ex-
posed the hand of the Democracy by in
Producing bill to repeal what is known
as the Sherman act of 1890, which
provides for the compulsory purchase Of
1850, 900 ounces monthly of silver bull
lion. The free silverites care little
about the Sherman act" but the bill
introduced by Senator Hill is the docu
mentary evidence that the change in the
control of legislation does not improve
the chances of the white metal.
At meeting Of the State Silver league
held in Denver few days ago the follow.
ing were among the resolutions adopted
Resolved. That it is the sense Of this conven-
ton that the international monetary congress
now in session at Brussels is simply an organ
lied effort TO secure the cooperation OF the
Rothschilds and goldbugs of Europe TO devise
a plan by which the present silver uprising in
the United States may be checked, thwarted,
betrayed and destroyed; that the declared
purpose Of said congress ITO consider the en-.
larged use of silver" is a covert thrust at the
free and unlimited coinage of silver al the
usual legal ratio, which alone will restore our
metallic medium to its proper volume and
bring wheat, corn, cotton and all other staples
to profitable price above the cost of produe-
ton and raise the current wages of all honest
toll and prevent the debtor from longer paying
double his debt to free himself from the yoke
Of mortgage, and make 1t possible to prose-
cute with reasonable profit the business of the
farmer, the merchant, the mechanic and the
miner, and net alone as now, the business only
Of the banker, loaner, usurer and corporate
extOrtiOner; and
Resolved, That we call upon congress to ad-
vance upon the calendar of the house and pass
without delay the Stewart silver bill And
further be it
Resolved, That until such a bill shall pass
both houses Of congress and be approved by
ha nraciIapt Tho tnIo A., Gt,0
shall continue the fight and be in the future,
as in the past, potent nucleus for the per-
sstent, systematic and uncompromising effort
to restore silver TO its constitutional right as
twin money metal with gold, and to re-estab-
fish the free and unlimited coinage of silver
and gold at the present legal ratio of IS to |. as
the same existed prior to the act Of demoneti-
zation criminally and fraudulently passed BY
congress in 1873.
Another resolution, which shows more
clearly the temper of the people, was as
follows:
Resolved, That the officers of this league be
and are directed to use all legitimate means to
secure the passage by the Ninth general as
sembly Of law making gold and silver coins
Of the United States, without discrimination,
q full legal tender within the state in payment
Of all debts.
1t is thought to be foregone conclu-
sion that such an act will be passed by
the legislature. Besides it is more than
likely that if congress does not pass a
free coinage act the Colorado legislature
will enact law providing for the free
coinage of silver in that state. Just
what influence such a step would have
and how far it could extend under ex-
listing national law is not clear. hut
Colorado is in dead earnest.
Another straw showing the way the
wind is blowing was contributed at an
immense public meeting in Denver. ad-
dressed by Senator Stewart, who was en-
route to assume his duties at Washing
ton as United States senator The au-
dience was one of the largest ever as
sembled in the city, and the following
resolution. introduced by Hon. Thomas
NJ. Patterson, was unanimously adopted
with wild enthusiasts
Resolved, That the unbounded gratitude
Of the people Of Colorado has been earned BY
Senator Stewart for his intelligent, unswerv-
Ing and consistent course in defense Of silver
reconciliation, and they commend his ster-
ling course to their own senators rs the one TO
be pursued by them in the future II they would
have their people forget and forgive their
backslidings in the past.
The Peoples party controls both
houses of the Legislature by large MAORI
ties, and if congress fails to enact sat
isfactory silver law the Populists will
continue to hold the assembly; so the
foregoing resolution may mean more to
Senators Teller and Wolcott than ap-
pears on its face. Jos. R. BUCHANAN
New York.