| Show NEVADA SILVER MEN A Rousing Contention Held at Reno Resolutions Adopted RENO New July 15A mass meeting was held here tonight and vigorous speeches made by Hon T G Newlands I Nevada congressman and others Resolutions were adopted amid great enthusiasm en-thusiasm which after giving a lengthy review of the financial situation for a number of years pst declared Less than one hundred millions of gold have gone out of the country within the past six months and behold the failures insolvencies and monetary I mone-tary stringency I the withdrawal of less than a hundred million gold has so seriously affected values how will the destruction of the money of four thousand millions of silver af fect the value of products and communities with which the debtors of nations as well as individuals pay debt i we thus place ourselves within control of theBritish gold trust and subject ourselves our-selves to its bounty for all we use I we bind ourselves to respond to their calls for gold when caprice or disaster in some one of the numerous English dependencies de-pendencies respond to the call for her gold what will oar condition be then Remember that England owns the accumulations of the gold of the world and has loaned it out to other nations upon gold bearing bonds We I can get no gold except from England Is I it wise to subject us to the disastrous effects ef-fects of every financial storm which may occur in any one of Englands dependencies dependen-cies The resolutions continue All gold now in America Englands gold loaned to the United States and which she canal can-al away at any time by the sale of American securities as she has done Amercan twice within the past three years Remember Re-member that England has a corner on the accumulated gold of the ages The annual an-nual product of gold from the mines does not affect this corner as it is constantly diminishing and is onlysufficlent to meet fVio flomanrln nf dentistry anti the nrta Remember that America is the largest owner of silver in the world She has a vast accumulation in the vaults accumulaton vauls represented repre-sented in circulation by silver certificates and treadury notes I England owned all the wheat and America the oats would it be wise in America to pass laws preventing pre-venting tho use of oats We disclaim any intention of appealing to any inherited prejudice againstEngland or her policy England knows her own interest and sustains it by legislation America apparently does not know her own interest or i she does fails to sustain sus-tain it We call the attention of eastern money centres to the fact that they themselves are interested in the industrial aspect of this question The east has more money invested in the mining region than the western people have Do owners of the Northern Pacific Central Pacific Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe Denver Rio Grande Midland Union Pacific Oregon Short Line and Great Northern realize that silver mining is at the bottom of most of the industry in the six states and three territories upon which they rely for business Do they realize the vast amount of eastern east-ern capital that will be destroyed by the destruction of silver mining and the industries allied to i Imagination fails to picture the disaster which will come from an overthrow of silver mining and the industries allied to it What the coal and iron mines are to Penna what the manufacture of textile fabrics is to Massachusetts what the raising of cotton I means to the south what the raising of wheat means to the fertile valley of the Mississippi silver mining means to six states and three territories constituting onethird of the area of the Union We appeal to the people of the east and south not to yield to the scare which has been created designedly by the gold trust with a view to stampeding the friends of silver We appeal to them to insist upon legislation which will free this nation from financial dependence upon England which will secure to us legislation creating creat-ing a financial system of its own that will us bring in harmony with the debtor nations and the silver using nations and make the United States the money center of the world |
