The Philipsburg mail. [volume] (Philipsburg, Mont.) 1887-current, 1896-06-25

creased purchasing power of gold, that
we are not expected to do our own
thinking to come to the fact, that
cheap commodities means cheap labor
and cheap labor means poverty. To
save ourselves from this poverty we
must demand of the government, ire
spective of the action Of any other gov
ernment, the coinage Of both gold and
silver, thereby expanding the volume
OF basic money, which is not initiation,
as they issue the money of ultimate re-
demption.
We make this appeal to you not for
our own sakes, but yours and the cause
of humanity as we'll We are more
fortunate than most of our country
but we have watched and studied this
matter as linked to our industry, Just as
manufacturers and their employees
study the tariff oquestion. The menace
of the single gold standard is to our
higher intellectual development. Look
the world over and you will see that
wherever the products Of labor are
cheap. labor is cheap; and the cheaper
the labor of the country the less deslr-
able are the conditions of life What
we want in this is a condition and not
theory
This effort for silver is non -parti-
san. 1t is the common cause of all
who have the higher aims of life and
the independence of our country at
heart.
"The demonetization of silver is
only another form of capital combining
to control labor This question of re-
storing silver coinage appeals to the in
terest Of every property holder and
wage Garner in the country. We must
make the united effort to rescue our
country from the rapacity of avarice us
is being fastened upon us by the single
gold standard.
"This appeal is in the interest of all
mankind, and coming from the Trades
and Labor assembly, familiar with the
cost of gold and silver mining; know.
ing the greater value of silver measured
by the unit Of labor producing it over
the value Of gold, we can ask you with
better grace to look into the motive
that prompts the gold standard advo-
Gates. The conditions of our financial
and industrial interests are the strong
arguments against continuing the ruin
GUS policy. We appeal to you for active
cooperation in this cause and hope
your demonstrations for silver will in
dicate to congress that this is demand
from the people who will not be hood
winked with false promises any
longer. -
A local committee will be estab-
lished i'll Philipsburg who will have
charge of things in this section. Mr.
Walsh has raised quite a sum of money
through subscriptions in Philipsburg,
Combination, Granite and other places
and went to Quigley Tuesday. Every
cent Of this money will be correctly
accounted for and expended in sending
silver takers to the heart of the cities
Of the east where bi-metallism will be
put in it's true light before the people. |
This plan is thought to be one of the
very best yet devised to spread the
light of bi-metallism among the labor
ing classes, who are always ready to
10 what they think best for the welfare
If the people. All that is needed
among the laboring classes of the east
IS clear understanding of the ques-
ion. and they can be depended upon
or free silver next November. The
lew organization is strictly non-par-
izan and it's only aim and object is
ike that of every true Montanian, viz Z:
he reconciliation of silver at the
alto of 16 to one without asking John
Bull, Kaiser Wilhelm, or any one else,
whether they will allow us to do it or
lot.