Evening journal., 1893-07-21
POWDERLY APPEALED TO
His Knights Are Face to Face
With Want.
RAISE YOURVJ ICE IN OUR BEHALF

Over 1000 Men Who Cannot Now Provide
Their Families with the Necessities of
Life Petition the Master Workman to
DO Something in This, Their Hour of
Need.
ASPEN, COL, July 21.-The Aspen
miners have addressed the following
letter to Master Workman Powderly
Terence V. Powderly, Master Workman
of the Knights of Labor of America
Dear Brother-In this time of our great
misfortune and distress we look hope
fully and trustiDgly toward you and ask
that you raise your voice in our behalf.
We have heard the same wish expressed
by leading men of our state, knowing as
they do the implicit confidence placed in
your integrity and ability by the labor
ing men of the country, and appreciating
as we all do the power and influence
you can exert for the relief and benefit
of those who are bound to you by the
closest ties of brotherhood in the great
cause of humanity in which we as
knights of Labor are solomnly pledged
and fervently devoted.
80 What Difference, Now"
eve were happy and prosperous
community a few short months ago
Over 600 men worked in our mines.
This without doubt is the largest and
most important eight hour working dis
trict in the country. The rights of
laboriDg men are respected To day
the mines are closed down Idle men
fill the streets who are almost hopless
with dispair
"Ti ey have been brought face TO face
with the problem of how TO provide
their dependent ones with the common
necessaries of life. The immediate
cause OF all this misery is attributa able
principally to the dominating Influences
OF merciless plutocracy that has firmly
established itself In the money centre of
the world
Powderly Knows the Cause
You know these causes. You ha, e
wisely instructed us upon the labor
problems of the day and safely guide d
us by your excellent counsels. You live
in different surroundings than your
knightly followers Of the mining camps
and may not be in possession of the
facts aud data to refuie the false repre-
sentations of the gold bug agents, and
therefore, may find acceptable the follow
ing statement, which we solemnly aver
to be absolutely true.
when silver Dropped.
81 Silver cannot be produced at 80
cents an ounce We may only cite as
proof of the fact that when u price
dropped below so cents the mines aud
smel'ers were compelled to close down
Bonanza Mines Rare Exceptions.
''2 1t is possible for such wonderful
bonanza mines as the Mollie Gibson,
Aspen and SmuRgler. IN this camp Ia
take out ore found in limited quantities
at remarkably low cost per ounce oi
silver but the great ore body of their
mineral cannot be produced with the
price Of silver in the eighties or niueties
These mines are extremely rare
exceptions Tue great mai lrity Of over
producing miues ha W beeu pro6ta Bile ol
Improbable as skill and economy may
have beeu practiced in their mana cement
Too Hazardous a R,sk.
A Many of propertie, with prom
isirg indlcati ms -of good bodies
of ore have been untouched 81 ace
the price of silver declined below
hazardous TO N dertake their develop
ment, which might lead to deposits oi
greater valne.
s. The amount of money aud labor
exp nded in prospeciiig & Tor mine tra
aud wasted upon mineral claims tina
utterly failed TO yield any considerabl,
quantity Of valuable ore or that is *
pended for machinery and labor in tn
development Of mining property i
largely in excess Of The value of silver a
81 30 per ounce. We do not believe tha
1t is al exaggerated statement to sa,
that 50 or even 81 90, is expended ii
search of the metal and in getting i
when discovered, 10 market, for ever,
ounce hat Is produced.
Deprived BY Infamous Legislation.
"6 Invest silver with the rights o
which it was secretly and un
Justly deprived by the infsmou
demonetization act of 1878, and tn
mountains of Colorado aud the go
and silver producing states and terri
tories will TEEN with life and activity
Here would be an inviting fe d 10
thousands of idle men of this conntr
at fair wages. We can then offer EN-
ployment and good homes to thousand
Of honest labOring men who know nc
what to do, or where to turn.
SPEAK and Unite Your Men,
eve implore you, therefore, to spea
out in this critical hour and unite th
laboring men of the country with us
this great stru GLE Always believin
In your great wisdom and firmly relyin
upon your love for the workingman an
your great prudence, sagacity and judG
ment we close with fervent appeal ths
you come to the rescue in this time {
need and counsel the toiling masses {
the country to join in one solid phalanl
rights of silver aud the blessings this
must follow to every man who gains b
sustenance by the sweat Of his brow"
TO FURTHER The SILVER INTEREST