The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1893-07-28
THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE.
FRIDAY JULY %. 1893.
THE GOLD BUGS ARE IN TERRI
BILE STRAITS.

Not content with all manner OF dis
tortion and misrepresentation in orde
to prejudice the people of the cas-
against silver reconciliation, the gol'
bugs have now enlisted the satirists IL
their war against the people.
So long as the spectators have tn
product of the silver mines thrown OF
the market as a commodity it serve'
their in the financial game o
battledore and shuttlecock even bettel
than wheat and the other products o.
the earth. They are accustomed to gam
bling with everything, and while they
make good margins on the backward
and forward movements of gold, there
is no commodity on which their SHAY
ings are SO great as on silver bullion
This consideration together with tho
greater one that gold becomes more val
liable in this country as silver is de.
pressed, makes these sinners desperate
and while they are objectiug so serious
" to the language used 10y some of the
silver men, they are themselves resort
ing to language and methods not one
whit more becoming or dignitled.
As an example take the following from
the New York World:
BLooMINGDALE, July II, 1893.
4 New CURRENCY MOVEMENT Pro
DUCERs OF COPPER Is LINE.
CoPPER BE MAINTAINED on PARITY
WITH GOLD AND SILVER.
TO tie People Of the United states;
The producers of copper appeal to you
for a just recognition of the metal which
they represent, and ask your aid in hay
ing a bill passed at the coming session
of ngre which will re-establish cop
per as a currency metal, maintaining it
on a parity with gold and silver and pro-
viding for the free coinage of this metal
at a ratio of $50 to l.
Copper is the true metal of the people
and has been used for o for over
1000 years. When our country was in
distress and its credit assailed, when the
grasping money sharks boarded their
gold and silver, copper remained true to
its duty and continued in active %circula-
ton, and was the only available means
of exchange which the poor laboring
man could use for his daily purchases or
the necessaries of life.
The gold bugs of the east and the sill
YER bugs of the west have lowered the
price of copper and prevented it's proper
use as a national currency. The time
has arrived for the producers of copper
and the small army of miners who are
dependent upon this metal for their liv-
ing to raise the cry of free copper or free
fight, and to pledge themselves to wade
in blood up to their donkeys' ears in
asserting their rights. The supply Of
copper is so great that it, better than
any other metal, can meet the demand
for an increase of the currency. If, with
a free copper law passed and a fair trial
OF it had, copper does not become as
valuable as gold and silver, and should
its adoption ruin all the business inter
ests of the country. we will stand aside
and give others a chance to experiment
with any pet financial theory they may
have.
If foreigners decline to accept copper
in payment of claims against this coun-
try, we suggest the formation of an
army to be recruited from the states of
Colorado, Montana. and the Dakotas, to
be led by Gov. Waite of Colorado. This
army to be used for the purpose Of fore
ing foreign nations to accept whatever
currency the United States may see tit
to issue.
Resolved, That it is not to the interest
of the copper producers of the United
States to unite with the farmers who
seek to have the government establish
storehouses for grain and to issue gov
eminent notes against deposits OF grain,
at the rate Of 81 per bushel.
Resolved. That a copy of the action of
this meeting be sem to all the CONNER
cial bodies of the United States, with a
request that they urge their representa-
tives in congress to assist in the passage
Of bill for the free coinage of copper.
l.. |. NATIC, Secretary.
This, of course. is intended to be very
funny. Bloomingdale is the Gotham
asylum for insane persons, and many Of
it's patients are men who have lost their
reason through the villainies Of stock
gambling, and the World says in intro
duction to this that it was sent TO the
Office 10 the shape of a printed circular.
But, unfortunately for the satirists
and their employers. this take Oft in
the name Of copper has no significance
whatever. 1t may deceive a few Of the
more gullible people of the east, but will
be as a straw SO far as the damming of
the great silver tide is concerned.
Gold-bug desperation has never made
a sorrier exhibition of itself.
IT seems to make the polite and re,
fined and also truthful Mr.. Role squirm
a good deal when his anti-silver chick