The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-08-19

Gold Mine Owners Posing as
Silver Men Secretly Favor
Mckinley.
Men Who Claim to be "Silyer
Barons" Who Are Really
'GOld Barns"
They Contribute Nothing to the Campaign Fund
and Help Wall Street on the Sly-Busted
Silver Miners Try to Help But are too
Poor to do Much.
(Denver (Col.) Road.o

(DeuVer (COl) HOaQ.)
We are sick and tired of such idiots
as Schenck and other colorado gold
miners" who 60 East and get inter-
viewed and seek to stab silver by
claiming to be for free coinage.
Though l am a gold MINER" 1 favor
free siver," is line we see often In
the dispatches reporting the sayings
Of some Judas Iscariot who seeks to
silently injure the question by sub
mitting to these interviews. Let US
see if Colorado gold miners are in ia
vor Of silver.
In the first place, be it remembered
the miners OF gold in Colorado out
number the silver miners six to one
yea. 16 to l. Hundreds OF gold proper
ties are now being worked that were
abandoned thirty years ago as unprof-
liable. These mines are worked today
because, through the demonetization
Of silver, wages and supplies have be-
come SO cheap that the cost of operat-
ing them is under the output of the
mine and consequently the mine is
profitable.
Let silver be remOnetized and labor
and the supplies necessary to operate
these mines would 60 up again, and
as they climbed up the profits OF the
gold output would go down. Every
body in Colorado knows this, aud we
venture to say right here that ninety
nine per cent Of the mine owners Of
Colorado are at heart goldbugs, and
are godbugs because they know free
silver would destroy their mining
properties. 1t is q well.known fact
that the minc-owners, as a class, do
not donate to the silver campaign
attributed to only one condition; /. e.,
these mine owners know which side Of
their bread is buttered, and don't pro-
pose to injure themselves. There are
a very few cases on record where
| these men have contributed insignif-
icant amounts to the cause, but we
| venture to say that il the truth we're
| known they contributed their money
| as blind to keep the Colorado people
off their necks while they donated Sc
cretly to the gold campaign fund.
| There isn't half dozen solvent sill
yer mine owners in the whole state of
Colorado, and with all they have con-
tributed toward the silver propaganda
IL WOu1O udIuly w VSOyVVV
since 1873. The ''silver barons of
Colorado are bankrupt. The gold
barons, led on by Edward o. Wolcott
and his hosts of betrayers, we notice
have plenty of money, but we fail ut
| terly to locate their names as cOntri.
| butors to a silver campaign fund.
They even 20 SO far as to openly es-
pouse Mckinley and the gold crowd,
and make no denial Of helping the
| Wall street gang.
What applies to Colorado applies to
Nevada, Utah and New Mexico, and 1t
is safe to say the large majority of
''mine owners in Colorado and the
other silver states are goldbugs Of the
purest ray serene.
1t is time to show these fellows up
in their true Highland The New Road
has no hesitancy in saying the whole
outfit are traitors posing as silver pa
triots. The people will attend to their
case later on, you may rest assured.