The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1893-07-22
SILVER MEETING.
Resolutions Adopted by the silver
Meeting Monday Ntght.

Pursuant to the call of Chairman
Nixon of the State Silver party, pub
lished in our last issue, the Peoples
Silver Party of Ely assembled in
mass meeting at the Court House
last Monday evening to add their pro-
test to those of the people of nearly
every town and hamlet west of the
Missouri river against the proposed
total destruction of silver as money.
J. F. Cupid called the meeting to
order. J. B. Williamson was called
to the chair and w. L. Davis appoint
ed secretary.
Major Treece explained the object
of the meeting and in a few well
chosen remarks outlined the action
that should be taken.
Ben Sanders, ESQ.,, was called on
and gave brief history of the conspir-
acy between John Sherman and Eng
olish and German bankers which led
to the demonstration Of silver in 1873.
M. B. Garaghan was the next
speaker and he made the hall ring
with words of eloquence in denuncia-
tions of the wrong being inflicted on
producing class by the moneyed power.
He enunciated the doctrine that if
these shylocks reduced the people to
poverty, the people still had the votes
and the power to make the plutocrats
pay the fidler by the imposition of a
graduated income tax. His remarks
were warmly received.
On motion, Joseph Grandermyler
and B. B. Bird were elected delegates
to the Silver Convention which meets
in Chicago August LIST.
On motion, the chair appointed the
following Committee on Resolutions !:
nj. B. Garaghan, J. F. Cupid, A. B.
Treece. After a short intermission,
the committee reported as follows
WHEREAS, Congress will convene in
extraordinary session on the 9TH day
of August next to act upon financial
questions; and
Whereas, We deem it our duty as
we'll as our privilege to express our
views and sentiments upon this mo-
mentous and important question; and
Whereas, We believe the financial
distress prevailing through the coun-
try is caused wholly by the unwar-
ranted onslaught made on silver by
Wall street gold-bugs and their bench
men, and we believe that general
prosperity to our country and people
can only be restored by the free and
unlimited coinage Of the same; there
fore, be it
Resolved, That we, the Peoples
Silver party of White Pine county,
Nevada, are opposed to the repeal of
the Sherman act of 1890, unless the
repeating act provides terms for the
continued coinage and use of silver
more favorable to the advocates of the
free and unlimited coinage of silver
than the aforesaid act; and be it
further
Resolved, That it is the sense of
this meeting that inasmuch as the
shylocks of America in conjunction
with their European allies have COM
bined to increase the burdens of the
poor and enrich those already rich by
striking from the currency of the
world one-half of the money required
to pay it's indebtedness; that we favor
graduated income tax such as was
levied by the Government of these
United States to enable it to maintain
itself in the days of the rebellion;
and it should now be so levied as to
compel those who profted by the de-
monetization of silver to bear the bur-
dens of the Government.
The resolutions on being read were
unanimously adopted, and, on motion,
the meeting adjourned.
Killed in the Mine.