The Madisonian. (Virginia City, Mont.) 1873-1915, 1895-08-03
FIGHT FOR SILVER
MADISON WILL BE ASKED
TO HELP.
Hon. Thomas g.. Merrill Wants Hon.
tana to Raise Her Proportion Of the
500, 500 Fund With which TO Con.
ductt the Campaign Of Education.

$50, 600 Fund With which to Con-
duct the Campaign Of Education.
y few days ago Maj. Henry Filing
received the following letter from Hon.
Thomas G. Merrill. of the State Min
eral Land Commission. Mr.. Merrill
is urging the silver men of Montana
land who in Montana save Col. Sanders
are not silver men to take immediate
action relative toralsing Montana's APP
portionment of the $5O. 600 fund with
which it is proposed to conduct the
campaign of education,'' such as has
been inaugurated by the publishers of
Coins Financial School. and which has
spread the gospel of the white metal
among the thinkers of the east. Mr..
Merrill has appealed to all the promi-
nent men in Montana to help him in
the work. His letter to Mr.. Filing is
as follows:
Helena, Mont. July q, 1896. Hon.
Henry Filing, Virginia City, Dear Sir:
Knowing your interest in the subject
of bimetallism and your active partici-
patton in the affairs of the state of
Montana, in all these things which are
for the good of the state, and trusting
thereby to interest you in the work be-
ing done by the National Bimetallic
Union, we write to inform you that the
national organization was perfected at
Salt Lake City on the 10Th, having for
its sole object the education of the vo-
tiers Of the Eastern and Central states,
upon the subject of b%i1metallism, which
the Union aims to accomplish by the
distribution Of such approved bimetal-
lie literature as Coins Financial
School and other works of like charact-
er, which will be easily understood,
comprehensive and unanswerable, and
thereby to bring the business men,
farmers, mechanics, and laborers to re-
alize that their interests lie in the full
restoration of silver, the peoples mon
ey, to the place it occupied prior to
1873. The plan OF organization con-
templates the formation of local bime-
talic unions in every city, town, and
voting precinct in the different states
for the purpose of raising funds and
carrying on this work.
The National organization has al.
ready received from y states east OF
Colorado, applications to join in this
work and t unite with the states of the
west in carrying it on to success. At a
meeting, Of the executive committee,
held in Salt Lake on the Sth and 9th OF
this month, it was decided to establish
and open the national headquarters OF
the union in Chicago at once, and to
start this work, before the local unions
are established and funds therefrom
availed, it was decided to raise a fund
of $50, 900, through contributions by the
business and mining men interested in
this subject. This sum was apportiOn.
ed as follows: Utah $40. 600: Colorado,
S15, 900: Montana $4,000, and the bal.
ance among the other silver producing
states. Utah at once raised her por.
ton: Colorado at a meeting held in
Denver on the 10Th inst. and presided
over by Senator Teller, raised her 49,
600. and the other silver states ore now
at work raising the $40. 600 apportioned
to them.
We must at once take steps to raise
Montana's share; she cannot afford tC
De behind in this effort O being made
in behalf of her leading industry.
which, if it can be carried to success,
will double the business and the value
of the property Of the state. We earn
estly request that you interest yourself
and others in the matter of raising
Montana's portion Of this money.
Yours very respectfully, g,
THOMAS G. MERRILL,
Member of Nat. Com. for Montana.
It is quite probable that a mass meet
ing will be called in the course OF a few
days, when the matter will be fullyd dis.
cussed and ventilated, when Virgin
ians will again demonstrate that they
never do anything by halves.