The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1893-10-07

we're blow upon your own industries
WITH the exception Of our ranch pre-
ducts, nearly all we consume come
from you. Our food, our clothing, th
furniture for our dwellings. our textil
fabrics, our mills and machinery, Q
| which We consume large quantities, ar
all purchased from you, and paid 70
from the proceeds OF our mines. Tha
our business has been profitable and ex
tensive is noticed by the eagerness Will
which our trade has been sought. W,
do not pretend to do as much tradin.
with you as other sections of the coun
try, but we do assert that in proportion
to the population we consume more thar
any other people.
In some of our mines the value Of sill.
yer and lead. at present value, are
nearly equal. This is notably the case
in the Ceur d'Alene mines in the state
l in part represent.
1t viii not do to say that our mines
can be worked with silver selling in the
markets at go cents and below. Gentle
men, such thing under present condi-
tions is impossible. l know the claim
is made that our profits are enormous,
and the statement finds support from
the sole fact that we have occasional
mines of unusual richness; but with
silver selling at the price of last jan
uary, the number of mines that can be
worked at a profit is very small, and
with silver at rs cents or below, we
have but one alternative, and that is TO
quit.
You are thus destroying one of the
most useful industries known to man;
you are punishing us for ever having
settled large portions of your domain,
and giving you some of the most
promising and patriotic states in the
Union, and at the same time you are
killing off the best customers you
ever had or ever will have for your
products.
Have Senators fully investigated the
far-reaching effects of Unconditional re-
peal, both as to the West and TO the
whole coantry, and as national and
question? 1 appeal to
you, if you have not, to do so, not only
IS statesmen, but as loyal American
:itizens.
II you do so you will find that the re-
zeal would result, first, in removing us
rom the head Of the column of nations
8 producers of the precious metals We
would also be in condition where we
could be compelled to submit to the
ictation of other nations should we
forwards undertake to restore silver
D the high place from which it was
ethroned.
Second, the currency of this country
1ould be contracted to the extent that
e would be compelled to issue large
mount of fat money, and at enormous
Expense borrow gold from other nations
hereby greatly increasing our foreign
on which the interest ,
one would be continually drawing ;
Did from us, depicting our supply and ,
1riching other nations. And event (;
ally, when these bonds fall due, we /,
ould find ourselves embarrassed to !,
UGH greater degree than we are at .
resent.
Third, you will have weakened this
untry by destroying one of its great
t industries, setting back the wheels :
progress in the western states and
rritories; will have driven from them 3
distress thousands of workingmen Z
d women, and will have ruined y
thousands of your fellow :
L
may be pardoned for calling your y
ention to what the situation would be =
many of our mining districts if silver
not protected. fl
Dur mills and smelters would be n,
sed, the machinery left 10 rust and h,
cay, pumps taken from the mines, q
they allowed to become flooded y,
h water, villages and towns in which n,
churches, school houses, water W
rks, and electric lights, costing in W
aggregate millions of dollars, will GA
deserted, and these once prosperous w
1munities would become the resort N,
Wild animals, and thousands of BUSH kr
8 men and miners who had once oc- ri,
led these towns would be deprived of
heir property and be left homeless ar
in distress. As
lust the prayerful appeal of these Ia,
pie for justice pass unnoticed, and s.1
you pay no heed to the entreaties no
he many thousands of workingmen ha
women who will he denrived If = 3,