The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1893-07-20

by bad congressional legislation, if
through congress you shall wipe out the
great industry of our section. around
which all others cluster for vigor and
profit, the values of our properties
will shrink, our business will be de-
stroyed, our towns and cities will be
largely depopulated, and railroads
traversing the western half of the con-
tinent will be sent into bankruptcy,
Certainly in the face of such unlnerit-
ed infection we cannot be blamed if
we are thus deprived of all ability to
meet our obligations. You may, il is
true, take the country in payment.
but after you get it what will you do
with it?
But though you may do all in your
power, whether in ignorance or
through selfish greco, to destroy us
we will not submit to the destiny of
poverty without a struggle. We shall
seek to open up new markets and
new lines and with new and more SYM
pathetic neighbors. Colorado has
aided with her vote to build tariff
wall between this country and Mexico
and the silver producing and using re-
publics of the southern continent. As
Senator Teller, one OF the staunchest
supporters of this exclusive policy, de-
clared but two years ago in the United
States senate, it was not in Colorado's
interest to vote for such isolation, but
Colorado, thinking more of her sister
states than herself, had periodically
sacrificed her own in their interest.
In the South, Colorado appeals with
more soulfelt words. Two years ago
you feared, with sinking hearts and
paling lips the enactment of a law that
threatened to deprive you of self gov.
eminent and to turn your election
booths over to the tender inercies of
federal bayonets on election day. To
save you from the federal force bill,
Colorados two enators-Republi-
cans-defied the edicts of their party
caucus and defeated what was to you
a certain humiliation and the horrors
of subsection to the electoral will of
your former slaves. We saved
you then. You can save us
now. With us now it is more of a
death struggle than it was with you.
If the scheme of the gold kings are ac-
complished, if the present silver laws
be Internationally repealed, the great
bulk of us will be made paupers and
our beautiful and wonderful state be
set back in it's march of progress more
than quarter of a century.
Colorado, great in its resources,
proud of its business record, filed with
brave men and resolute hearts, makes
this appeal for preservation to the
open. hearted and generous people Of
the country. We are confident it will
not be in vain. The atrocity of max
ing homeless through the destruction
of its chief industries of 1,000,0 900
square miles of American territory
that 100000 men, women and children,
with all the attendant scourges of en-
forced and hopeless idleness, can never
he the work of the American congress
with your approval.
Hopeful of a speedy delivery from
the crushing burdens of financial
system begotten of the greed of Great
Britian's remorseless money power,
and of prosperity inseparable from an
American system which includes free
coinage of gold and silver at the
American ratio ofl16 to /, we submit
to the people of the United States this
statement of our cause.
The convention, after arranging for
funds with which to disseminate free
coinage literature in the East, ad
journed, sine die.