Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-16
SILVER TRUST
Conspiracy to Make Millions at
Last Comes to Light.
GREATEST SCHEME ON RECORD

An Assessment Equal to Ono Months
Profits Called For From the Silver
Mine Owners to Elect the silver Ticket.
It Is Pointed Out This Would Be Clear
Profit to tho Trust.
Thomas S. Merrill, secretary of the
Bimetallic league of the silver states,
has let the cat out of the bag as to the
conspiracy Of the silver mine owners
to unload their bullion on the United
States government in a letter he sent
to the Salt Lake Herald. Mr.. Merrill
says in his letter. tS7es >.
IF Bryan is defeated we must ex-
pect to see silver sold at price ahat
will be given it simply by its demand
for use in the arts, which will certain
ly be not more than 40 cents an ounce.
In view of these facts, the owners OF
silver producing properties can afford
to contribute at least the additional
profits they receive from their own
silver product for one month to the
Bryanite campaign" He closes with
a direct appeal to we'll known silver
mine owners as follows:
II APPEAL TO MESSRS. MIN
TYRE AND CUNNINGHAM OF THE
MAMMOTH, KEITH AND KEARNS
OF THE SILV-R KING, CHISHOLM
AND OTHERS OF THE CENTEN-
NAL AND EUREKA, RYAN AND
KNOX OF THE AJAX. PACKARD
OF THE EUREKA HILL, DAILY OF
THE DAILY, WEST, BECK AND AS
SOCRATES OF THE BULLION
BECK, FARNESWORTH & SHARP
OF THE HORN SILVER, AND THE
OWNERS OF THE SIOUX, ONTARIO
wv. r. HEARST VICE PRESI-
DENT), AND OTHER SILVER
MINES OF THIS STATE, WHO CAN
WELL AFFORD TO ASSIST IN
THIS CAUSE, TO FIGURE UP THE
AVERAGE MONTHLY SILVER
PRODUCT FROM THEIR MINES
AND MULTIPLY THE PRODUCT
OF ONE MONTH IN OUNCES BY Ga
CENTS, WHICH is THE ADDITION
AL PRICE THEY WILL RECEIVE
FOR THEIR PRODUCT-ALL OF
WHICH WILL BE PROFIT-AND AT
|
TRIBUTED AND PLACED IN THE
HANDS OF THE TREASURER OF
THE BIMETALLIC PARTIES TO
ASSIST MIR. BRYAN IN THE WON
DERFUL CAMPAIGN HE IS MAX
, ING ALMOST UNAIDED. IF WE
CAN SECURE THE ADDITIONAL
PROFITS OF ONE MONTHS PROD
UCT OF THE WESTERN SILVER
PRODUCING MINES 1T WILL IN
SURE SUCCESS AT THE ELEC-
TION ON NOV. g."
This circular of the secretary of the
: Bimetallic league of the silver states
declares officially, and with the ut.
most simplicity, the objects of the sill
: yer trust Secretary Merrill declares
, that free coinage of silver means ar
5 addition of GA cents an ounce-"ALI
OF WHICH WILL BE CLEAR
PROFIT" to the silver trust-on every
, ounce of silver mined!
The production of silver last yeal
!, in the United States was 55,727,00t
fine ounces. Under free coinage the
additional profit to mine owners
would have been $35,755,2 ,2S0 The
government of the United States, the
7 people, not even the miners who dug
the silver out of the mines woul(
, have received one penny of this addi
tional profit. 1t would have beer
q pure velvet to the mine owners!
g The Utah mine owners organized
! last Friday night and formed them
:. selves into a strong alliance for mu
tual profit. A call had been issuet
Sept 2S, and last Tuesday night lib
eral representation Of the leading bus
mess men of Salt Lake City respond
a ed, and several of the silver min
q owners to whom Mr.. Merrill had ap
+ pealed were present.
The meeting created what will b
q known as the Bryan campaign finan
}. cial committee, which will be gen
d eral committee to have charge of col
|. lecting funds in Utah to assist the sill
y yer campaign. The committee is com
= posed of thirty-three members, in
cluding those mine owners whom MI
Merrill directly addressed-Messr!
DAILY, Packard, Beck, Knox, Mcintyre
Kearns, Farnesworth, Cunningham
Chisholm and Mr. Merrill himsel
e This committee organized at one,
with r. c. Chambers, president of tn
IS Salt Lake Herald company, prom
s. nent free silver organ, as chairman
ia Mr.. Chambers, Mr.. Hearst and M
% Tevis are the principal owners of th
:, Ontario and the Daily silver mine
: which together have already paid owe
$16,000,0 900 in dividends in recent year
S New York World.