Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-07-24

| Q0uOuuC0 UuOSO udClOuS WHICH Will uO
adopt the two metals, silver and gold
as standard money. That the sale O
silver, even at present prices, may no
be lessened, we object to the propos
ed repeal of the silver purchase act
and we clamor for the free coinage o
silver at the present ratio, Is to L. w
demand that somehow, either by di
rect purchase, or by some fiat of it
own, that government shall brins
back the price of silver to such
height as shall make silver mining
profitable to u.s." The above is abou
the ultimatum chat is put out.
| Every body suffers more or less il
Colorado's misfortunes, and we have
no doubt that every body would dc
anything reasonable to help her out
but the condition of affairs is such
that there seems to be no way just
now to assist her, if it must be done
by making her silver mining profita-
BILE. The mining industry has come
just where the sheep, or the wool
growing industry has come. The
world is producing SO much wool to
day thot there is a surplus of wool, and
it can be bought at a price below the
cost of production in the United
States. So OF silver, the world has
turned it's attention to silver mining,
and the markets are over full of sill
yer. Government can not assume to
purchase and store away the surplus
wool in order that the growers of
Texas, Ohio or Colorado can be made
whole in wool growing.
Government, in it's attempt to keep
up the price OF silver, has already pur
chased three or four hundred million
dollars worth Of it, which is nearly all
stored in the treasury vaults, nobody
knowing what will ultimately become
Of it. Much as everybody deplores
the condition Of the Colorado miners
there seems to be no way just at pres
ent to help them out. They are no
worse off than any other individuals
who have overdone the business in
which they are engaged. They must
wait till silver climbs up where silver
mining becomes profitable again.
We give below some of the strange,
not to say rational and insane things,
that appear in their circular, and our
readers can pass Judgment upon them.
"Preceding the call for an extra ses
sion of congress the classes, which
have struggled for twenty years to
overcome the bimetallic money stand
ard of the Constitution, inaugurated
| money panic which was untruthfully
charged to existing silver laws. The
evident purpose was to create pref |
1dice against what is known as the
silver purchasing act, and under pres
sure to secure its repeal. Venal Pres
Dental patronage, supplemented by !
alse utterances by the gold press, and
,ther influences have possibly won
'ver the House of Representatives,
tut the President was in doubt about
he Senate, when suddenly like a fire
all news was flashed that free coin
ge had been suspended in India. The
bove step had been contemplated by
he British government for months, to
Re taken at Il critical time to stam-
ede the US. senate and make it sub
-rvative TO yhe lower House. The
PRESIDENT at once issued his call for
he extra session, may it not have
cen in the hope that the panic would
H. ~
epealed. The enemies of bimetall
sm openly declare that they will be
ontent with nothing less than the re-
eal of the silver clause of the Sherman
aw. That means striking out the last
estige of legislation that secures the
oinage of silver. 1t puts the United
tates in the ranks of the single stand
I'd nations. Great Britain plotted for
ears to bring about this end, gained
he influence of the daily press of the
ountry and controlled the national
of the country, granting
PROFESSIONS of bimetallism in plat
orms, but always secured presiden-
lal candidates opposed to it. The
herman law was a trick. If
old had been demonetized instead of
liver it would not be worth to day
5 an once. BimetallistS that
he old law shall be enacted-the free
oinage law-and then if silver shall
OF resume it's former relative value
18th gold, bime tallists will cheerfulIy
lbmit to any legislation that expert
nee shall suggest.
eff through ignorance or in greed,
on seek to destroy us we will not
lbmit without struggle. We shall
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