Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-07-13
IT'S WESTAGAINST EAST
A Sharply Defined and Widening
 Breach Caused by Silver.
THE APPEAL OF THE SILVER MEN.

the Results or Q Repeal or the sherman Act-Eastern Rankers Demand a Speedy Repeal of That Same Law. DENVER. July l3.-The interest in the silver convention has not in the least abat- ed, and when it was called to order stand ing room was not to be had. After the ap- pointment of delegates to the St Louis and Chicago silver conventions and to the gold bug" gathering at St. Paul, the committee on resolutions presented the following re port, which was unanimously adopted: To the People of the United States: The people of Colorado, standing in the gloom of impending disaster and representing in condition and sentiment the people of Mon taua, Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada, South Da- kota, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico with reverence for the constitution and unswerv- ing loyalty to the general government, ask for your calm and candid consideration of the following facts before you give your approval to the destruction of silver as money and to the final establishment in this country of the single gold standard of values, and thus at one stroke change all debts to gold debts and inaugurate never ending rise of gold and a continued core spending fall in the price of every com. modity.
 Will you listen to us while we speak in words of sober earnestn ness of the local of. fleets of the unconditional repeal of the sil. yer law will have.
 Through Silver Spectacles.
 The silver mining states and territories, embracing 1000, 900 square miles of conti' nent, with 200, 900 Americans inhabitine them, depend pecuniarily upon silver min. ing for their prosperity. That industry is the very heart from which nearly every other industry receives support. Agricul ture will not thrive without artificial irri. gation. Its mines of coal, iron, stone and clay, while magnificent are worked with such dear labor and are so remote from other local markets that their movement would be feeble and their operation disas- trous without the stimulus the mining in dustry affords.
 It supports our foundries operates our machine shops, supplies our railroads with freightS, stimulates travel, keeps bright the fires of the smelters and sends custom CTS to the shops of our merchants. It has invoked in the valleys and upon mountain sides magnificent cities and thrifty towns and villages. Great manufactories of pa per, cotton, leather, iron, steel and claws
  port thousands of prosperous and happy families.
 But because agriculture is so limited in area-confined to narrow strips along our few and 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 NHrNA= nxI ! Al
 and workmen of the indus stries and call | ings are dependent upon them
 The reduction of the price of silver to | about 70 cents has shut down go per cent oi | the silver mines of the country and the smelters must soon follow their example | There are in Colorado today l5 900 idle min \ CTS who know not where to turn if work is not resumed. There will soon be added t, I this idle army of labor 900 men from tn, | smelters. The stone quarries are nearly all shut down, the railway companies ar, | laying off train crews by the score, th, foundries are nearly all out ot orders, thu | farmers and fruit growers will be barrel, | paid for the cost of saving their crops, th, ! merchants are countermandiug their or ders, the travelling men for eastern house. | seek almost in vain for customers. This i, | no eXaggeration.
 A Picture of Coming Destruction.
 The destruction of the silver industr, will devastate the country as if swept by cyclone reaching from the British posses | Eions To the Mexican border line. This >nr rowful picture of Colorado, with its min ing industry destroyed, represents the con dition of the other mining states and ter | ritories with the same calamity upon them
 But though you runy do all in your DOW er,whether in ignorance or through selfisl greed, to destroy us, we will not submit t. | the destiny of poverty without a struggle We shall seek to open upnew markets ant to build up our silver industry along nev lines and with new and . ore sympatheti | neighbors.
 If the schemes of the gold kings are aC complished, if the present silver law shal be internationally repealed, the great bull Of us will be made paupers, and our beau | tiful and wonderful state will be set bacl in its march of progress more than a Quar ter Of a century. Colorado, great in its Tt Isources, proud of its business record, file, with brave men and resolute hearts make this its appeal for preservation to the opel hearted and generous people of the country We are confident that it will not be il vain. The Atrocity of making homeles through the destruction of the chief il dustries of 900. 900 square miles of Amer | tcan territory; that the 5OO, 900 men, won en and children with all the attendan scourges of enforced and hopeless idlenes can never be the work of an American COT gress with your approval.
 Hopeful of speedy delivery from th crushing burdens of financial system, L, gotten of the greed of Great Britain's r,
 morseless money power and of the pro.
 perity inseparable from an American syi
 tenn, which includes tine free coinage (
 gold and silver at the American ratio of to 1, we submit to the people of the Unite
 States this statement Of our cause.
 Buffalo BAnkers Call For Repeal
 BUFFALO, July 13-TEe Bankers ass, eiation of Buffalo desiring to put itself o record on the important matters comin
 before congress at the extra session. calle
 by President Cleveland for Aug. ' nex presents the following proposition: First-The association once more urges u ! unconditional repeal of the purchasing clau | of the compromise silver ti.. of 1890
 Second-The Bankers ass bciAtion urges flu | ther that at the extra session no substitute | any kind whatever shall be permitted to tai
 the plsoe of the purchasing clause or any COT l promise enacted.
 Third-Believing that the subject requires Il , | most deliberate consideration by men skilled
 finance and fitted by experience for the wor ! Ghta hsssociatiOu haRrttly ConcurS in the recoI