The herald., 1893-07-13

upon the prosperity of the silver mining
of the country.
We OF Colorado pride ourselves on
our commercial and financial integrity.
No calamity can induce us to repudiate
are at the will of our creditors for reim-
bursement., But, II by bad congress-
ional legislation IL through congress
you shall wipe out the great industry OF
the section, around which all others
cluster for vigor and profit, the values
of our properties will shrink, our busi-
ness will be destroyed, our towns
and cities will be largely depop-
ulated and the railroads traversing
the western half of the continent be
sent into bankruptcy. Certainly in the
face of such an unmerited infliction you
cannot 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 in ignor-
ance or through selfish greed destroy 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
tariff wall between this country and
Mexico, and the silver-producing and
using republics of the southern con-
tinent. AS Senator Teller, one OF the
staunchest supporters of this exclusive
policy, declared, but two years ago in
the United States senate, it was not for
C0lorado's interest to vote for such iso-
lation, but Colorado, thinking more of
her sister states than of herself, prac-
tically sacrificed her own in their in
terests.
To the south, Colorado appeals with
more soul-felt words. Two years ago
you feared with sinking hearts and
paling lips the enactment OF law that
threatened to deprive you of self-govern-
ment and turn your election booths over
to the tender mercies of federal bayon-
cts on election day. To save you from
the outrages of the federal force bill,
Colorado's two senators, Republicans,
defied the edicts OF their party caucuses
and defeated what to you was certain
humiliation and the horrors OF subiec-
ton to the electoral will of your former
slaves. We saved you then; you can
save us now. With us now it is more of
death struggle than it was then with
you. If the schemes of the gold kings
are accomplished if the present silver
law is unconstieutionslly repealed, the
great bulk of us will be made padpers
and our beautiful and wonderful state
will be set back in the march of progress
more than quarter of century.
Oolorado-grelat in resources, proud
of her business record, filled with brave
men and resolut hearts-makes this, it's
appeal for preservation, to the open
hearted and generous people of the
country. We are confident it will not
be in vain. The atrocity of making
homeless, through the destruction OF its
chief industry, 100000 square miles
of American territory, 100000 men,
women and children, with all the at
tendant scourges of enforced and hope
less idleness, can never be the work of
the American congress, with your ap-
proval. With the hope of a speedy de.
livery from the crushing burdens of a
financial system begotten OF the greed of
Great Britain and the remorseless
money power, and of the prosperity in
separable from the American system,
which includes the free coinage 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
case.
The convention, after arranging for a
fund with which to disseminate free
coinage literature in the east, adjourned
sine die.