The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1894-03-10
SECESSION MOVEMENT IN
COLORADO.

favorable to the cause of silver and
the mining interests of the west will
be considered or receive the sanction
of the present administration, and
that the western States, like the peo-
Pile of the Hawaiian Islands, are left
to work out their own salvation and
make the most of what seems to be,
at least as far as the Federal Govern
ment is concerned, hopeless cause.
Some time ago the Governor of Col
orado conceived the unique idea that
Notwithstanding the fact that Con-
gress has the exclusive right "to coin
money and regulate the value thereof
and of foreign conn.," the State of
Colorado had right to set at naught
this constitutional provision and make
Mexican silver dollars lawful money
of that State. What inducement was
brought to bear upon the Governors
mind causing him to abandon this
crude and immature idea we are I'M
able to state. But however incon-
sistant and inapplicable to the princi-
Piles and laws of our government the
visionary scheme, referred to above
may be, it is quite probable that the
secession movement which is advo-
Gated in Colorado at the present time
had its origin in and grew out of the
circumstance above referred to. A
special to the Salt Lake Tribune
states in effect that petition favor
ing secession of the silver States has
been in circulation in Georgetown,
Colorado. and vicinity, for several
days, and that similar petition was
in circulation in the mining camps in
the State and in Denver.
The petition was forwarded to Con-
gresham Bell, who is to present it to
Congress. The petition reads as fol-
lows:
The UNDERSIGNED residents ofGeorge-
town, Col, recognize the truth of the
great doctrines enunciated in the De-
claration of Independence, that when
any Government becomes destructive
of the ends for which it was establish
ed, it is then the right and duty of the
people to throw it off and establish
new guards for their future security.
We declare that the Government of
the United States, in the establish
ment of the Infamous banking system,
: that eats out the substance of the peo-
pie, increases all forms of indebted
ness, centralizes the wealth and has
resulted in the building up of pluto
cracy that aspires to govern the Ma
ton.
That, the demonetization of silver
and the destruction of the paramount
industry of many of the States, pau
perizing the people and reducing them
to condition of wage servitude, there
by destroying the equality of civil
rights; that in refusing to regard the
petitions of the people, or to afford
relief other than issuing additional
bonds, which further increases the
power of the capitalists to wiring the
hard earnings from the hands of the
poor, evinces determination to re-
duce the people to a condition of alb
solute servitude, and believing that
submission to those who love indie
pendence, for the sake of peace we
respectfully request the Federal Gov
eminent to permit us to peacefully
withdraw from the Union of these
States, and, to strengthen our hands,
we respectfully ask the Government
of Mexico to favorably consider pro-
posals we shall hereafter make to
enter into alliance with that Re
public.
Just what the promoters of this
movement expect to accomplish by
the advocacy of so perfdious a meas
ure we do not pretend to divine.