The record-union., 1897-07-08
INTERNATIONAL GOLD
MINING CONVENTION.
Six Hundred Delegates Attending
the Denver Congress.
Governor Adams Delivers an Address as
to the Objects of the Meeting.

More Gold the Purpose of the As
sembly-Nothing Relieves Busi-
ness Depression as Quickly as
an Increased Supply of the
Coinage Metals-Mining a Le-
gitimate Business and Not a
Gambling Venture.
DENVER, July I'm point of the
number of delegates in attendance, the
first International Gold Mining Conven-
ton Will satisfy the expectations of its
most enthusiastic supporters There
are at least 600 delegates in the city.
representing twenty States in all sec
tions of the Union, and 200 more are
expected during the day. There are
representatives from Venezuela, Mex
leo and British Columbia.
Among the most prominent delegates
are ex-Congressman c. A. Towne of
Minnesota, E. V. Smalley of Chicago,
Secretary of the National Sound Money
League; Hon. j. r. Hedges, Pittsburg,
Pa; Professor ]. A Holmes of North
Carolina and Professor George S.
Knapp of Chicago.
AT the Miners National Bureau of
Information are arranged displays of
rich metallic ores from nearly every
mining district on the continent. Prob
ably the richest of these came direct
from the Nashville Exposition. They
represent the mines of North Carolina
INnnroio
coo.
The Broadway Theater, in which the
congress convened, was handsomely
decorated with national emblems and
BANNERS, none of which have any ex-
preston on the great question of the
ratio of coinage between gold and sill
Yer.
AT 1890 o'clock r. A. Hunter, Chair
man of the Executive Committee. called
the convention to order. A great many
ladies We're present both as delegates
and as spectators. In the box set aside
for foreign delegates was Vice Consul
Cuneo, representing Italy.
After prayer by Rev. NJ. S. Ellis,
Secretary Irving Mahon read the call.
Acting Mayor O. B. Scobey welcomed
the delegates on behalf of the city and
was followed by Governor Adams.
Temporary Chairman, who delivered an
address of welcome and explanation of
the purposes of the convention.
Governcs ADAMS, the Temporary
Chairman, delivered the following ad-
dress:
ITO increase the gold mining industry
is the purpose of this convention While
hax ~ -
cell, the Importance of gold production
reaches beyond the interest of the miner
who mines it, or the State in which it is
found, and becomes a question as wide
as human commerce and civilization.
More gold is the purpose of this as
sembly, and it is the only platform ever
presented to congress of delegates that
did not meet opposing votes.
Gold is the only diety before which
universal man has ever bowed Relig-
ion has never reared an altar that has
not been shaken by the clerk of heresy.
Political wisdom has never devised a
cCde or constitution that did not invite
rev olt. No moral system has ever won
general approval. Only behind the
banner of gold does there trail the hun
cry, enthusiastic, unframed hosts of the
human race. 1t matters not what land
bore them, what faith guides them
what altar hears their prayers, what
color God tinted their skins; every heart
pulSateS with the same love of gold; no
chasm of creed or race that will not be
bridged by lives and swords in it's pur-
suit. This convention represents States
that produce One-fourth of the gold of
the world, and can, with encouragement
Of capital double that production.
Our desire to increase the product of
gold is inspired bp a patriotic and in
dustrial sentiment and aspiration. We
want not the gold that is the gold of
conquest, not the gold that is the idol of
the miser. but the gold that will be the
handmade of industry the vehicle of an
enlightened faith, the means of a broad
er culture and education, that will lib
crate labor from the thralldom of idle
ness, give to the mass of people fairer
and better opportunities Of development
and life: all in all, the gold that will be
the agent of a higher and nobler civil
ization than We have yet known
THE depressed condition of COM
merce and industry, the unnumbered
idle hands, should turn the attention
of every patriot to the mines. All his
tory teaches that nothing relieves busi-
ness depression, loosens the bonds of in
dustry and. labor as quickly as an in
creased supply of the coinage metals
of the world.
1T was not an accident or chance, but
the workings Of positive economic and
monetary principles that made the peri
DDS that followed the discovery and pill
lage of Mexico and Peru and the finding
of gold in Australia and California
phenomenal for progress in commerce.
intelligence, discovery and all the ele-
ments of civilization. 1t was the dis
covery of the metals and their use that
enabled man to emerge from caves and
barbarism, and from sthat day the his
torian has but to know the metal pro-
duct of a nation to read the story of it's
progress and power.
IF California would equal her gold
product of 1857; if some of the idle
money and labor that now burden the
banks and labor marts could be utilized
to develop the mines of Colorado and
other mountain States, there would
come TO our nation an industrial change
and emancipation recalling the emer-
gence of Europe out of the deep shadow
of the middle ages under the influence
of the gold which Spanish conquest
sent eastward across the sea.
L know that this is not the forum,
or the occasion. for the discussion of BIZ
metallism, but as the Eastern press
and many individuals do not understand