The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1893-07-13

will soon be added to this idle army OF
labor 1000 men from the smelteTH, Tho
stone quarrles are nearlyall shut down,
the railway companies arc laying oil
train crews by tho score, the foundrles
are nearly all out OF order, the
farmers and fruit growers will be
barely paid for the cost Of saw
ing their crops, the merchants
are countermanding their ordeTs, the
travelling men for eastern houses seek
almost in vain for customers, This 10
no exaggeration. The destruction OF
the silver industry viii deyastGte the
country rs II swept by cyclone reach
ing from the British possessions TO the
Mexican border line,
Ii tue silver mines shall remain
closed, one-half Of the American out
put OF lead must be lost. The greatest
bulk Of the lead product is taken from
silyer'bearing ores. II requires the
one metal supplemented by the other
to remunerate the lead'sllver miner
Not less than 90 per cent OF the gold
product OF the country depends upon
tho maintenance Of the silver industry,
The placer or creek washings, the
earliest and most prolific source OF our
gold supply, are practically exhausted
DARK PICTURE.
There are held throughout the east
hundreds OF millions OF dollars in rail-
road stocks and bonds, in municipal
securities, in trusts and mortgages,
the payment OF the greatest
body OF which depends upon
the prosperity OF the silver
mining country. We OF Colorado
pride ourselves upon our commercial
and financial integrity. No calamity
can induce us to repudiate one dollar
OF an honest debt. All OF our assets
are ut the will OF our creditors for their
Reimbursement. But Ii by the bad
congressional legislation; II 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 business will be
destroyed, our towns and cities will be
largely depopul0ted aud the railroads
traversing the western half OF the con-
tinent will be sent into bankruptcy.
Certainly in the face OF such unmerited
inhiction, you cannot blame us il we
are thus deprived OF all ability to meet
our obligations, You may, 1t is true,
take the country in payment, but after
you get it what will you do with it2
APPEAL TO THE SOUTH.
To the south Colorado appeals with
more soul-fclt words. Two years ago
you feared, with sinking hearts and
hating lips, the enactment OF the law
that threatened to deprive you Of self
government and to turn your election
booths over to the tender mercies
Of federal bayonets on election day.
To save you from the outrages OF
tho federal force bill. Colorado's two
senators - Republicans : dehed the
edicts OF their party caucuses
and defeated what waS to you
tho certain humiliation and the
horrors OF subjection to the cleo
toral will OF your former slaves
We saved you then. You can save
us now. With us now 1t ia more
of death struggle than 1t was
tleu Win you. II tle sCHelues VI tle
gold kings are accomplished-if the
present silver. law shall be
Internationally repealed, the great
bulk of US will be made
paupers and our beautiful and wonder
ful state will be set back in iti march
Of progress more than a quarter OF a
century.
the crushing burden of financial
SYSTEM begotten OF the greed of
Great Britain's romorseless money
power and OF the prosperity
inseparablo from an American system
which includes the free coinage Of
gold and silver at the American ratio
OF sixteen to one, we submit to the peo-
nle Of the United States this statement
OF our cause.
The convention, after arranging for a
fund with which to disseminate free
coinage literature in the east, ad.
journed sine die.