The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1893-07-15
Established 1890.

to submit the following report for your
consideration
This organization shall he known as
the Neihart Branch of the Free Coinage
Association of Montana.
The association shall be conducted by
the following officers:
President, vice president, second vice
president, secretary and assistant sccre-
tary, treasurer and finance, committee and
such other committees as may be
deemed advisable to select.
The object of this association shall be
to further the purposes of the state as
socation.
All citizens of the vicinity shall be
considered members of the association.
All funds shall be raised by subscrip-
tion Said funds to be turned over to
the treasurer to be forwarded by him to
w. E. Hall of Butte, treasurer of the
state association to be used as the State
Executive committee may see fit.
The following resolutions are respect
fully submitted
RESOLVED, That when the fathers of
the republic ordained in the first article
of the constitution of the United States
that "no state shall make anything but
gold and silver coin a tender in payment
of debts" they declared by an implicat-
ion that stupidity cannot fail to see, or
greed deny, that both metals in the rea-
tion that then existed, should forever be
the coinage and money metals of the re-
public.
That representing silver-producing
state, having full knowledge of the prem
ises, we declare it to be our deliberate
conviction that in view of the unrequit-
ed labors of prospectors, the work cx-
pended upon the development of unprof-
table mines, the losses on unproductivc
plants and all the factors that enter into
the ultimate cost of the silver product of
the west, every ounce of silver taken
from the earth and prepared for the
mint represents its full coinage value,
and a ratio to gold of 1G to l..
That the commerce of the world calls
for the use of silver and gold as money,
not only for the purpose of affording the
necessary volume of currency, but equal
ly that each may correct the occasional
alterations of the other, and so afford
the best possible approximation to sta
bility in the standard by which values
are measured any debts are contracted
and paid.
That the considerations in support of
the free coinage of silver, and its full
use as money metal are not sectional,
but universal, reaching to every corner
of the civilized world and to every class
of the brotherhood of man.
That we submit to the judgment of
the world the demonstration of com
prehensive induction of facts and flo
ures that the nonuse of silveras a money
metal cheapens the value in market of
every product of human labor.
That we denouncc as wrong that
stops little short of robbery the contrac-
ton by legislation in the interest Of
creditors Of the volume Of money of ul
timate payment.
That as the history Of the depreciation
of silver is a history of adverse legisla-
ton, without which its parity to gold
would have been maintained without
doubt or difficulty, we demand that con
gress shall be the first to retrace is stems
and repeal the measures it has enacted
to the detrimcnt Of that metal. AS am act
of justice to one Of our most important
products, and in recognition of transcen-
ding industrial and economic considera-
tions
That we appeal to the laborng classes
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