Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1900-11-06
NEVADAS LoSS,
THE ONLY STATE IN
THE sUNION TO DE-
CLINE IN POPULATION.
The Causes Which Have De-
vastated our Once Prosper
Gus Towns.
To the Editor Of the APPEAL, Sir

To the Editor Of tho APPEAL, Sir
The population of Nevada has de-
creased several thousand during the
last ten years. It's cities and towns
have been deserted and are now falling |
into decay. Many of them have
scarcely building left standing to
mark the sites of what we're ;once per-
feet hives Of industry, thriving and
pOpulous towns, whose inhabitant is
were prosperous, contented and happy.
On every side desolation and ruin meet
the eye, and the question naturally
arises what has wrought this change.
why are those places deserted. why are
those mines closed. those mills idle,
why is every industry and every bust
ness PROSTATE?
These questions may be answered in
three words: unfriendiy legislation.
By whom or by what party was this
unfriendly legislation enacted? By the
Republican party. Why was the Re-
publican party hostile to the industries
and interests of Nevada and the inter-
mountain States? Because for twenty
five years it has been owned and con-
trolled by the money brokers of New
York and London. aud the interests of
those magnates were opposed to the
silver industry aud to those engaged in
it. Silver was the balance wheel
which preserved the equilibrium, not
only between the two metals, but be-
tween money, the medium of exchange,
and the industrial products it was used
to purchase. The money dealers wish
ed to increase the purchasing power of
gold, to make moEey dear and labor
and commodities cheap. and to accom-
plish this and make gold an article of
iuctuating value, they demonetized
silver, destroyed one half the metallic
money in the world, threw the whole
burden of exchange upon gold alone,
thus doubling its purchasing power
and reducing silver to non-commod-
ity and correspondingly decreasing the
price of it and of every other commod
ity. These are undisputable facts and
NO argument should be necessary to
make them understood by the people
of Nevada and tho silver States
IF, then, the demonstration of silver
destroyed the silver and other indus
tries of the State, paralized trade,
swept prosperous towns out Of exist
enee, and brought poverty, want and
restitution to many Of its inhabita n is.
and if hostile Republican Legislation
brought about this deplorable condi
ton, surely it is the sacred. solemn anl
imperative duty of every citizen of Ne
vada, irrespective OF party, to vote
against the PARTY that sold the inter.
ests of the State to the money broker:
and bondholders of Wall Street TIE
interests of home, family, the State
and Nation should be above the inter
ests of party and every citizen, Re
publican, Democrat and Silver part,
man, who loves his home, his famil,
and his country should vote for tn.
party that will do equal justice to al
Glasses anu U6I6DO the Tree INSTITUTION
of his country. That party is the Sill
yer and Democratic party led by w. J
Bryan, the champion of the people
the lover of constitutional liberty, ant
the defender of the inalenable right
Of man everywhere.
Citizens of Nevada, your interests lie
in the same plane, you all want good
honest, economical government, gov
ernment of the people, for the peopl,
and by the people. a government tina
will protect the rights and interests o
all citizens, the poor as we'll as the rich
and by just laws promote the prosper
ity of the Nation. and transmit to you
children the blessings of free institu
tiOns. When the very life of the Re
public trembles in the balance vot,
against its deadly enemy, the Repub
lican party. and for thu party tina
stands and always has stood for huma,
rights as defined by the Declaration o
Independence and the Constitution O
the United States, the party OF Wash
ingt0n, Jefferson, jackson and Lin
coin, and generations yet unborn viii
rise up and call you blessed
A NEVADA SILVER MAN.
IF Won want n NJ Noriprfon r.;