The San Francisco call., 1897-07-08
Governor Adams Broad Views
on the Greatest Metal OF
the Centuries.
TWENTY STATES REPRESEN TED
IN CONVENTION.
Rich Ores Exhibited to the First
international Gold Miners
Assembly.

the mum Der OF the uc'cSo'S' ~ aNS~
ance, the first International Gold mining
Convention will satisfy the expectations
OF its most enthusiastic supporters. Inere
are at least 600 delegates in the city, rep
resenting twenty States in all sections OF
the Union, and 200 more are expected dur
ing the day. .
There are representatives from Venezu.
ela Mexico and British Columbia. Among
he most prominent delegates are ex-Con-
gresham c, A. Towne Of Minnesota, T..
Y. Smalley OF Chicago. secretary OF the
National Sound Money League; Hon. j..
r. Hedges, Pittsburg, Pa; Professor J.
A. Holmes of North Carolina and Profes-
sor George S. Knapp OF Chicago.
at the Miners National Bureau of In
formation are arranged displays of rich
metallic ores from nearly every mining
district OF the continent. Probably the
richest OF these came directly from the
Nashville Exposition. They represent
the mines OF North Carolina and Georgia
and are valued at ST, oO0. coo.
The Broadway Theater, in which the
congress convened. was handsomely deco
rated with National EN- blems and BAN
ners, none OF which have any expression
on the great question OF the ratio OF coin
age between gold an silver.
At 10:30 o'clock, R. F. Hunter, chair
man of the executive committee, called
the convention to order. A great many
ladies were present both as delegates and
as spectators. in the box set aside for
foreign delegates was Vice Consul Cuneo,
representing Italy.
After prayer ty Rev. NJ. A. Ellis
Secretary Irving Mahon read the cali.
Acting Mayor o. B. Scobey welcomed the
delegates on behalf OF tue city and was
followed by Governor Alva Adams, tenn
porary chairman, who delivered an ad-
dress of welcome and explanation of the
purposes of tho convention. He said;
To increase the gold mining industry is the
purpose of this convention. While local SELF
lshness may have inspired the call, the i'm
portance OF gold production reaches beyond
the interest of the N iner who mines it, or the
State in which it is found, and becomes a
question as wide as human commerce and civ
lliZation. more god" is the purl ose of this
assembly, aud it is the only platform ever
presented TO congress of delegates that did
not meet opposing votes.
Gold is the only deity before which univer-
sal man has ever bowed. Religion has never
reared altar that has not been shaken by
the clerk of heresy. Political wisdom has
never devised code or constitution that did
not invite revolt No moral system has
ever won general approval. Only behind
The banner OF gold does there trail the
hungry. 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
tho same love OF gold; no chasm Of creed or
race that VIII not be bridged by lives and
swords in its pursuit. This convention repre-
s.nis states that produce one-tourth of the
gold OF the wor d aud can. with encourage
inent OF capital. double that production.
Our desire 10 increase the product OF gold
is inspired by patriotic and industrial sent-
ment 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 haudmad OF industry, the vehicle
of an enlightened lhi IHB .l15rS 80
broader culture and ed ication that VII
liherate labor from te thrnidom oil
idleness, give TO the mas Of people fairer
and better opportunities of development and
lie: a in all, the god that will be the
are II OF higher and nohr civilization than
with the crimes of Corte, or Pizarro, il it
is to ins pre- only avarice and greed, 1t had
best remain in its unfatho ned vaults
The depressed condition OF commerce and
industry, the unnum bered idle ha nds, shonld
turn the attention of every patriot to tne
mines. All history teachts that nothing re-
lieves business depression loosens the bonds
Of industry aud labor as quickly as an in
creased supply OF the Coinage metals of the
world
Civilization is not yet lid enough to have
found any satisfactory sub ,titnte iof gold aud
silver as money me ais. AS they have been
scarce or pleniiful has civilization ebbed or
flowed. The periods When coin money has
been most free in the arteries OF trade have
been the golden ages OF tho past; when money
has been most scarce were the dark ages OF
history. What blood is to the human body is
money to the worlds system oil business and
commerce. Lessen II anu You cause weakness
starvation.
Iiwas not an accident or chance but the
workings OF aosiuve econ omic and monetary
PRINCIPLES, hat made the p ,riods hat followed
The discovery ana piliage pf Mexico and Peru
and the finding OF gold in austria ia and Cali
fornia phenomenal for pre- gress in commerce.
inte ligence. discovery AMI all the elements
of civilization.
1t was the discovery of tile metals and their
use that enabled man 10 emerge from caves
and bar b lrism, and from that day the h is
torian AS but TO know the metal product of a
nation 10 read the story Sf its prOgress and
power.
If California would equal her gold product
of 657, II some of the ioie money and labor
tn at now burden the banks and labor marts
could be utilized 10 deveiob the mines OF Colo
rndo and other mountain States thera would
come 10 our Nation an inc uslrial change anu
emanci patton recalling the emerceuce OF Eu-
rope out OF the deep shfdow o, the d inu,e
ages under the influence of the gn.d watch
Spanish conquest sent eastward xcross the sea.
Since 1892 gold, silver .nd COPPER mines
oic Noout tuS why iH"SHtIy LHdt pdlu
dividends. II this c0nven zion can turn the
attention of capital rom reproductive invest.
menis to legitimate minii.g II will have sd-
ynntaged country and investor alike. Busi-
ness care an sense in mining will pay better
than most lines OF iuyestmant.
Prospecting as ROAD 10 Individual fortune
may be an il.usion the pathfinder seldom
enjoys his own discovery, s.: even good mines
require large exp-ndl'ute, but legitimate
mining as vocation Is prof able business.
Many e0pie act and inyest as though mining
was exemnt from the requirements of pru.
dence and judgment. whit other in Yestments
demand.
If you invest in mines as you do in a hat
poo! ut the races you might as we'll try Monte
Carlo; your chances oi gain are Just as good.
and tnete is little difference in the moral
aspect OF such investing.
Mining is legitimate business and not a
gambling venture. 1t l. the mark OF the con-
scrvatve 10 decry mining us u gamble-a
risky speculation.
Gtn rally these cautious, wise conserva ives
invest in railroad and otner securities IL YOU
could examine their list of stocks to-day you
would, perhaps, ind 'chisoD, Topeka and