Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-07-13
COLORADO'S APPEAL.
The Fate That Awaits the Silver
Producing Country if
THE GOLD STANDARD IS ADOPTED
A Forcible Statement of the Woes
That Will Befall the West II
Her Source of Wealth is Cut
Of-The Effect the Agitation
Thus Far Has Had-A Cry 1or
Help From the South.

16lD Z IOIA SAAN
DENVER, COL, July 12.-The interest
In the silver convention has not III tho
least abated from yesterday, ana "neu
il was called to order thls moInlns
standing room was not to be had. Alter
the appointment Of delegates TO Inc
St. Louis and Chicago silver conven-
tiops and to the "God Bug" gathering
at ST. Paul, the Committee on ReSolu-
tiops presented the following report
which was unanimously adopted:
To the Peple Of the United States, 49,
The people of Colorado, standing IN tue
gloom of impending disaster, and repre-
seuting in condition and sentiment Tue Peo-
ple of Montana. Idaho, Wyoming, Nevada
South Dakota, Utah, Arizona and Ne"
Mexico, with reverence for the Constltu,
ton and answering loyalty 10 the geneTiaii
government, ask your calm ana cahulu
consideration of the following
facts before you give yoo.
approval 10 the destruction OF silver as
money and to the final establishment In
this country of the single gold standard OF
values. and thus 81 one stroke change all
debts to gold debts and inaugurate
never-ending rise of gold and continued
corresponding fall in the price of every
Congress has been called to meet in ex-
fra session on August Z. Preceding tnst
call the classes which have struggled LOT
twenty wears to overthrow the 0l-metalhc
money standard provided by the Con
sttutiou, inaugurated a panic WHICH
they untruthfully charged TO the eA-
listing silver law, Ignoring am ne oae
fact that there were SoUO'VoV,oOo
of outstanding legal tender notes, common
ly called "greenback," that were equally
ayailable with the treasury notes, issued
in payment for silver 10 draw gold from
the treasury; that the balance OF our Tor
eign trade had turned against US, rendering
settlement abroad with American gold
necessity, and that the great oanK-
ers of Europe were purchasing
gold with which to change the money
standard OF Austria and TO MI the treasury
vaults of other monarchial countries Inc
evident purpose was to create preludlce
against what is known as the silver pur-
chasing act, and, under pressure, secure us
unconditional repeal. The success
tial. Venal Presidential patronage,
suuplementing false and incendiary ut
terances by the gold press, aggravated
by the daily circular assaults upon the law
by eastern money brokers sent to every
commercial body and banking corporation
In the four quarters OF the country, nao
atyssibly won over the House Of Represen-
tatiyes TO it; but even the President ad-
mitted that in the Senate there
was staunch majority against
it. Suddenly like tre bell IN
the night the news was flashed oeneatl
the oceans that free coinage IN India had
i i rha no pnarlrpf yYy,iCR
of silver had fallen within forty-elght
hours fully 20 cents per ounce. This start
ling action forced upon the Indian
Government without moments warning
the step held in secret contemplation
by the British Government for months,
to be taken at critical
and opportune time when the consterna-
tion il must create, 1t was hoped, would
strmp out the last phalanX of oi-metallsm
defenders, must have had as one OF It's
chief aims the intimidation OF the Senate
TO bring il in line with the subservient
lower house.
Immediately the wires were ourdened
with appeals TO the President from banks
and clearing houses and commercial bodies
| for an extra session, aud TO Senators TO
repeal the Sherman law, which, it was
| claimed, was responsible for all the disas-
ter.
The call was made. The time for the
session is early, so early, indeed, that may
| il not have been the hope OF the President
| that the panic would not subSide and the
measure OF repeal be forced through before
reason resumed its sway and truth aud
| logic could dominate the Congress. The
| enemies of bimetallism, and they
| now fairly number all those
/ neonle who oppose free coinage
/ oil atsrifh GOLD II hnfOro
| the demonetization Of silver, in 1873, openly
! declare that they will be content with
nothing less than the unconditional repeal
! of the silver purchasing clause Of the Sher
/ man law. 1t is for that they struggle; il
was to secure that that the panic was Great
! ed and free coinage in India suspended.
UNCONDITIONAL REPEAL-that
means striking from the laws the last
remnant of legislation that secures coinage
! for silver. II fixes the United States firm
! IN in the ranks OF the single standard ma
! tions. IL is the consummstion OF the con-
spiracv organized at the close
Of the Franco-Prusslau war to
DESTROY as money for ultimate
redemption, one half Of the coined money
of the world, leaving the otner half to bear
| alone the vast mountain OF credit upon
which the worlds business is conducted,
! inviting more frequent panics aud render
ing them more destructive and enduring.
| The sherman law is not the work Of the
silver producing States. 1t was forced
upon the country against their will. 1t
was accepted by bi-metalsts as pledge
that the old laws should at some mature
time oe restored and they now demand,
nor that the Sherman law shall be retain
ed6but that the hostage shall be redeemed
! hvthe re-enactmeut in its stead of the
coinage laws under which the country
crew and prospered for more than three
quarters Of century.
Will YOU listen TO US while we speak in
| words of sober earneStness Of the local ef-
fects the unconditional repeal Of the silver
law will have.
The silver mining States and Territories,
embracing !, l,OO0, 600 square miles Of cont.
nent. with 2.U00,000 Americans inhabiting
them, depend pecunlarly upon silver min
ing for their prosperity That industry is
the very heart from which nearly every
| industry receives support
The reduction OF the price Of silver 70
about 20 cents has shut down SO per cent
of the silver mines Of the country, and the
smelters must soon follow their example
There are in Colorado to-day $1,000 idle
miners who know not where 10 turn il
work is not resumed. There will soon
be added 70 this idle army OF
labor 400 men from the smelters
The stone quarries are nearly al
shut down, the railway companies are lay.
Ing OF train crews by the score, the
foundries are nearly al out Of orders, the
farmers ana fruit-growers will be barely
paid FOR the cost OF saving their crops, the
merchants are counJermanding theiI
orders, the travelling men for eastern
houses seek almost in vain for customers
This Is no exaggeration.
The destruction of the silver industry
win devastate the country as If swept by
cyclone, reaching from the British posses
sious TO the Mexican border line
II the silver mines shall remain closed