Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1893 — COLORADO'S CLARION CRY. [ARTICLE]

COLORADO'S CLARION CRY.

Free Coinagn or Death—ln Appealto tha American Paople,, The silver convention, fn Den ver, Wednesday, adopted »long series of resolutions, from which w» estract the following: “The people of Colorado, standing in the gloom of impending disaster and representing in condition and sentiment the people of Montana, Idaho, Nevada, South Dakota, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico, ask for your calm and candid consideration of the following facto before you give your approval to the destruction of silver as money and of the final establishment in this country of the single gold standard. “The Sherman law is not the work of the silver-producing States. It was forced on the country against their will. They have not sought to impose upon the country some new financial nostrum, but have asked simply for the restoration of the coinage laws as they Were from the first year of the Federal Constitution until the furtive repeal of 1873. The Sherman law waa the trjck by which that restoration was defeated. “The charge that the bimetallist demand that 60 cents shall be made a dollar is a lie. It was the trick of the single standard conspirators that lessened the value of silver. Had gold been demonetized instead of silver—retaining for silver its greatest use and chiefest functiqn, and depriving gold of its greatest and chiefest function, gold would not to-day be worth $5 per ounce and silver’s value and purchasing power would be increased largely above its former highest figure. “The silver mining Statesand Territories, embracing 1,000,060 square miles of continent and 2,000,000 Americans inhabiting them, depend pecuniarily upon silver mining for their prosperity. That industry is tho very heart from which nearly every other industry receives support. “Those who contend for the gold single standard wilfully mislead you as to tne cost of producing silver. We say to you liLthe most solemn and truthful manner that reliable statistics prove that, including but legitimate items in the account, the silver of Colorado costs by the time it is on the market not less than $1.29 per ounce. “If the schemes of the gold kings are accomplished—if the present silver law shall no unconditionally repealed, the great bulk of us will be made paupers, and our beautiful and wonderful btate will be set back tn its march of progress more than a quarter of a century. Colorado, great in its resources, proud of its business record, filled with brave men and resolute hearts, makes thts its appeal for preservation to the open-hearted and generous people of the country. We arc confident that It will not be in vain. Hopeful of speedy delivery from the crushing burdens of a financial svstem. begotten of the greed of Great Britain’s remorseless money power and of the prosperity inseparable from an American system, which includes the free coinage of gold and silver at tho American ratio of 16 to J, we submit to the peopleoi the United States this statement of our cansc.” The convention, after arranging for a fund with which to disseminate free coinage literature in the East, adjo’Orinxl sine die. ,