The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1893-07-13
Sill VER'S WARM FRIENDS
Colorado Sends Her Appeal to The Poo.
pie Of AmePici.
LET JUSTICE BE DONE
The Entire Country VIII Be At
fectsd by the Degradation Of
Siiver-What the Metal
Has Done.


abated since yesterday aud when II was
called 10 order this morning standing
room was not to DO had. After the APP
poinimcnt Of delegates to the St. Louis
and Chicago silver conventions and TO the
''goiibue" gathering ut 81. Paul, the com.
mittes on resolutions presented the fol.
lowing report, which was unanimously
adopted:
To the People OF the United States:
Tho people Of Colorado. standing In the gloom
OF impending disaster and representing In con-
dition and sentiment tho people Of Montana.
Idaho. Wyoming, Nevada. south Dakota, Utah.
Arizona and New Mexico. with reverence for
the constitution and answering loyalty to tho
general government, ask for your calm
and candid consideration Of the foilowin;
facts before YOU givs approval to
the destruction OF silver IN money and to the
final establishment in this country OF single
gold standard of values and thus at one stroke,
change all debts to gold debts and inaugurate
never ending rise In gold and continued CORE
spending fall In the price OF every commodity.
THE EXTRA SESSION.
Congress Is called to meet In extra session.
August :. Preceding the call, the classes which
have struggled for 20 years to overthrow the bi.
metallic money standard provided By the con-
stitution, inaugurated panic which they
untruthfully charged To the existing silver law,
standing In legal tender notes, commonly called
greenbacks, that arc equally available with the
treasury notes issued In payment for silver TO
draw gold from the treasury; that the balance
Of our foreign trade was turned against us.
rendering the settlement abroad with American
gold a necessity and the great bankers of
Europe purchasing gold with which to change
the money standard OF Austria and 10 OH the
treasury vaults OF other monarchal countries.
The evident purpose was to create prejudice
against what Is known as the silver purchasing
act and, under pressure, 70 secure its uncondi-
tionai repeal.
GOLD sUG SCHEMES.
The success OF this scheme was only partial.
Venal presidential patronage. suppiementing
false and incendiary utterances BY the gold
press, aggravated by daily circular assaults
upon the law by eastern money brokers, sent to
every commercial body and banking corpora
tion in tile country. possibly won over the house
OF representatives to 1t. but even the president
has admitted that In the senate there Is
stanch majority against II.
suddenly, like hre bsll In the night. the
news flashed beneath the oceans that free coin
age In India WAS suspended. and the market
price Of silver had fallen, within - hours, fully
20 cents an ounce. This startling action was
forced upon the Indian government without Q
moment's warning. The step hat been held In
secret contemplation by the British government
for months, to be taken At critical and oppor-
tune time, when the CONSERVATION it must ere
ate would stamp out the last phalanx OF bi-
metallism's defenders. II must have had. as
one Of It's chief aims. the intimidation OF the
senate. to bring it In line with the subservient
lower house.
EFFECT IN AMERICA.
Immediately, the wires were burdened with
appeals to the president from banks and clear.
Ing houses and the commercial bodies domi-
mated by them. for an extra session and TO sena-
tors to repeal the sherman Law, which, it was
claimed. was responsible for tho disaster. The
call was made. The time for the session to
commence Is early. so early. indeed. that may it
not have been the hope OF the president that the
panic would not suosde, and measure to re-
peal would be forced through before reason re.
sumed sway and truth aud logic could domI.
nate Congress?
ENEMIES or SILVER.
Tho enemies OF bi-metsllsm. and they now
fairly number all those who oppose free coinage
for silver alike with gold AZ before the demOne.
tifation OF silver 10 1879, openly declare tina,
they win be content with nothing less than the
unconditional repeal OF the silver purchasing
clause OF the Sherman law. II is for that. ths.
they struggle. II was TO secure that. that the
panic was created and that free coinage In India
| was suspended.
This unconditional repeal means the striking
| from the laws the last remnant Of legislation
that secures coinage for silver. lt fixes the
United States firmly In the ranks of single stan
| dard nations. II Is the consummation Of n con
kpiracy organized at the close OF the Franco
Prussian war to destroy. as money OF ultimate
| redemption, half the coined money Of the world
leaving the other half to bear alone the vast
mountain Of credit upon which the worlds busi
| ness Is conducted. inviting more frequent panic,
and rendering them more destructive and ,n
| during.
| The idle hope Of reducing the value OF s,lvei
TO Its lowest stage Will force Great Britain tt
\ seek an International solution OF the dilemma
The home OF the single standard Is In he
islands. Its members fully anticipated tho low
| degrees to which silver will descend. They dis
\ counted It's disturbances Of Lcr Indlan trad,
and stceled their hearts against the crime 4
will be against her Indian subjects. The poweI
that could plot for "a years; that could force
yoke upon Germany. tLe Latin union. Aus
tria and the United states: that coulC
gain the Cd OF tho daily press o
| the country: that could control for =
years, the national conventions OF the grea
| American political parties, granting In thel
platforms professions OF bl-metaiiism but al
| ways securing presidential candidates unalter
| ably opposed 20 Il; that could change the over
whcimins sentiment among the people for bi
metaliism TO feeling Of enmity or indifference
can never bc induced to felent. for Il has countc
the cost aud has learned Ito power
THE SHERMAN LAW.
The sherman law is not tho work Of the silye
producing states. IL was forced upon the coun
/ try against their will. Their constant demaI,
| has been that OF the agricultural states, tn
| West and the South. and the working masses o
the whole country. They have not sought &
| Impose upon the country some new hnancia
nos;rum. but have asked simply for the restora
| tlon of the coinage laws as they were from tn
hrst year OF the federal constitution until tliei
furtiye repeal In is.3. The sherman iai
was a trick by which that restoration was d.
fcated. II was accepted by the bi-metaliIsts a
| a pledge that the old laws should. at some Z,
ture time, be restored, and they now demand
not that tic sherman law shah be retained. bu
that the hostage shall be redeemed by the rs
enactment In It's stead OF the coinage laws unde
which the country grew and prospered for NOR
than .hree-qaarters Of a century.
DEMANDS OF Bi-METALLfsTs.
The charge that the bi.Inctalists demand tina
90 cents be made dollar Is a lie. II Il q trick O
the single standard conspirators that lessen~
the value OF silver. Had gold been demonetre