The morning call., 1893-07-13

in trusts and mortgages, the payment of
the greatest body OF which derends upon
the prosperity of the silver mining of the
country. We Of Colorado pride ourselves
upon our commercial and financial integ-
rity. No calamity can induce US to repu-
diate a dollar of honest debt. All our
assets are at the will of our creditors for
their reimbursement But if. by bad Con-
gressional legislation. if through Congress
you shall wipe out the great industry of a
section around which all others cluster for
vigor and profit. the values Of our proper
ties will shrink, our business will be de-
stroyed. our towns and cities will he largely
depopulated and the railroads traversing
the western half of the continent Will be
sent into bankruptcy.
Certainly. in the face of such unmer-
tied infection you caAnot blame us if we
are thus deprived OF all ability to meet our
obligations. You may. it is true, take the
country in payment, but after you get it
what will you do with it? But though
you may do all in your power, whether ip
ignorance or through selfish greed, to de-
stroy us. we will not submit to the destiny
OF poverty without struggle. We shall
seek to open up new markets and build up
our silver industry along new lines and
with new and more sympathetic neighbors
Colorado aided with her vote to build
the tariff wall between this country and
Mexico and the silver producing and using
republics of the southern continent.
AS Senator Teller. one of the stanch-
est supporters Of this exclusive
policy. declared but two years ago in the
United States Senate, 1T is not for
Colorado's in terest to vote for such isola-
tioD, but Colorado, thinking more OF her
sister states than of herself, patriotically
sacrificed her own to their interests.
'To the South Colorado appeals with
soulfelt words. Two years ago you
feared with sinking hearts and paling lips
the enactment of a law that threatened 10
deprive you of self-gOverpment and turn
your election-booths over to the tender
mercies Of Federal bayonets on election
day. To save you from the outrages OF the
Federal force bill, Colorado's two Repub-
lican Senators defed the edcts of their
party caucuses and defeated what to you
was certain humiliation and the horrors
of subjection to the electoral will of your
former slaves. We saved you then. You
can save US now. With US now it is more
VI ucdlU StIuRsIo tHdu IL was tiIcu Will
you. II the scheme of the gold kings be
accomplished, if the present silver law be
uncOnsttutionally repealed, the great
bulk of us wll.be made paupers, and our
beautiful and wonderful State will be set
back in the march of progress more than
a quarter of century.
Colorado, great in resources. proud Of
its business record, filed with brave men
and resolute hearts, make this it's appeal
for preservation to the open-hearIed and
generous people of the country. We are
confident that it will not be in vain. The
atrociiy of making homeless. through the
destruction of the chief industry of 1,000,-
600 square miles of American territory,
$40, 900 men, women and children. with all
the attendant scourges of enforced and
hopeless idleness. can never be the work oi
the American Congress with your ap-
proval. With the hope Of speedy delivery
from the crushing burdens of financial
system begotten of the greed of Great
Britain, the remorseless money power. and
Of the prosperity inseparabe from the
American sy tenn, which includes the free
coin age of gold and silver at the American
ratio Of 16 to l. we submit to the people of
the United States this statement Of our
cause"
The convention. after arranging for
fund with which to disseminate free coin
age literature in the East, adjourned sine
die