The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1893-07-13
FOR FRER COINAGE
A Very Enthusiastic Meeting
in Helena Last Week.
THEY WILL ALL PULL TOGETHER
All the Important Mining interests
IN the State Represented--Some
Rousing Resolutions Passed
List of Representatives to Go m
to Chicago Unanimous
for Free COinage-Etc.

for Free COinage-Etc.
; The silver convention held in Helen;
on July 9Th was in every way success
There were about 200 delegates present
and there was no party or factiona
feeling introduced to mar the unanimit,
) OF action. Nearly all the large min,
owners were present or had representa-
tives there, and the meeting was highl,
satisfactory one.
The following resolutions were reac
and adopted as reported by the com
mittee:
RESOLVED, That when the fathers Of th,
republic ordained in the first articles of thu
constitution Of the United States that .snt
state state shall a make anything but gold and slvel
declared by an implication that stupidity can
not fail to see, or greed deny, that both metals
in the relations that then existed, shonl6
forever be the coinage and the money metals
of the republic.
That, representing silver producing state
having full knowledge of the premises, we
declare it to be our deliberate conviction thai
in view of the unrequited labors of prospect.
ors, the work expended upon the development
or unprof liable mines, the losses on unpro.
ductlve plants, and all the factors that enter
into the ultimate cost Of the silver product of
| the west, every ounce of silver taken from the
earth and prepared tor the mint represents
It's full coinage value, and ratio to gold OF
16 to1
That the commerce Of the world calls for
the use OF silver and gold as money, not only
for the purpose of affordng the necessary
| volume OF currency, but equally that each
may correct the occasional alteration of the
other, and SO afford the best possible approx
nation to stability in the standard by which
values are measured and debts are contracted
| and paid.
That the considerations in support of the
free coinage of silver and the full use as a
money metal are not sectional but universal,
reaching to every corner of the civilized world
and to every class Of the brotherhood Of man
That we submit to the judgment of the
world the demonstration of a comprehensive
induction Of facts and figures that the non.use
q q sllYer as money metal cheapens the value
labor
F,.3l A VS. denollnee as aWrong that stops
little short Of robbery the contraction by leo
slatlon ia the interests Of creditors Of tie
volume ,n1 Of money Of ultimate payment
silver is history Of adverse legislation with
out which its parity to gold would have been
maintained without doubt or difficulty, we
demand that congress shall be the first to
retrace its steps and repeal the measures it
has enacted to the .detriment of that metal as
an act OF justice to one of our most important
products and in recognition Of transccnding
industrial and economic considerations
That we appeal 10 the laboring classes of
tne union, without regard to the section, to
give their support to the policy of free coinage,
in the profound belief that single gold
standard implies the loss of employment to
wages to all.
mat we declare it to be our sincere belief
tnaJ enactment by congress of measure pro-
Ylldlng for the free coinage of silver would of
its own efficiency! restore that metal to its
1uli coinage value, do justice between debtor
and creditor, relieve the stringency that de-
presses all classes of business, widen the
avenues OF employment to labor and usher in
an unexampled era of prosperity, content and
happiness. ALEX G. BoTKlN,
GEORGE w. IRWIN,
w. j. STEPHENS,
w M. THORNTON,
Committee.
The following were selected as dele |
gates to attend the convention to be
held in Chicago:
SILVER BOW COUNTY.
W. A. CLARK, A. H. Barret,
G. w. Goodale, P. Talent
Y. T. HougE, d. 81. Irvine,
q. Williams, G. Fl. Casey,
J. ". Fairfield, Joseph K. Clark,
J. E. Kickards, w. q. Hail.
Charles :; d: Palmer, James B. Leh1gh,
George W. Irvine, Carl B. Hand,
= p. Sergeant, Charles HI. Lane,
H. l.. Frank, John Williams.
y Charles Rueger, NJ. kirkpatrick,
Thomas Couch, James A. Murray.
J. p. Gaylord, George Haldorn.
John Caplice, F. A. Heinze.
VI. ). Connell, Theo Schweitzer,
CASCADE COUNTY.
=. z. Maclay, T. E. Collins,
~. Webst,r J. T. Arlington, +
3arls Glbson, J. FL. MacKnight,
3. S. Ford.
!. M; Fox, 3. Ell. Talcott,
y. p. Nichols, George M. Hatch,
George II. Wright.
RAvALLl COUNTY.
William Toole, J. M johnson,
Buck.
CHOTEAU COUNTY. !
ohm. W. Power, CE. Duer,
ere Sullivan, T. A. Cummings, {
]. w. Peck. :
BEAvERHEAD COUNTY.
}. F. White, Lawrence W. Brown :
J. G. Fyhrie, Joseph A. Brown.
William Gallagher. :
TETON COUNTY. .. !
'ruce Toole, Z.T. Burton. !;
}. Y. Cooper.
DAWSON COUNTY. :
(enri j. Haskell. /
FLATHEAD COUNTY.
!. E. Conrad, D. Hill. /,
GRANITE COUNTY. q
7. Thomas Hart, ]. NJ. Sigh.
!. w. Sherman, James 81. Henry, I
gorge w. Morse, John w. Opp, t
J. 81. Maupin, A. Condor. 4
MEAGHER COUNTY. r
}. D. Falson, w. j. Clarke,
evils Rodley, ". 81. Sutherlin, a
!. H. Barnes, CT Parker.
H. McAssey. r
JEFFERSON COUNTY, 4
r.. Molsen, H. Sappington. .
I. B. Gafney, J. A. Heating. :