Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-02-23
THE CURRENCY QUESTION.

MIR. Proctor having introduced in the
Senate series Of resolutions, declaring
the Specific Contract Law in violation Of
the law of Congress and Mr.. Thompson
having introduced bills for an Act repeal
ing that Act and adopting the currency Of
the United States Government, our neigh
Dor of the Union glori6es abundantly, and
halls it as the dawn of great financial
millennium. Whatever measure might be
adopted which would relieve the people
of this community from the present pres
sure, and pour into the channels Of trade
generous volume of the circulating me-
dunn, We should welcome it as heartily as
our neighbor could do. We. in common
with all other business men, feel the pres
sure complained of, and should rejoice at
any turn of affairs which would enable
those indebted to US to iquidate. We
are not drowning, however, and are there
fore not disposed to grasp at straws.
Were we even struggling to keep our
heads above water, in the financial sense
of the phrase, the adoption of greenbaeks
as the basis of business transactions would
be the last kind of q life preserver that We
should seek. 1t reminds US of the pres
ence of mind of the passenger, who, when
the ship was going down, dashed himself
to the best bower anchor. We have
stated our views on this subject repeated
" and so Enthusiastically that the Union,
this morning, says of this fresh agitation
of the matter, "the GOLD HILL NEws Is
against it, of course" Our impressions
are against It; but we are not so bigoted
in our opinion as to entertain either
wrath or contempt towards those whose
belief may be opposed to ours. To err
is human, saith the proyerb, and it may
be that IN the great day when the naked
ness and deformities of human judgment
shall be giaringly apparent, We shall find
that while in the flesh our head swerved
widely from the horizontal, on this ques-
ton of greenbacks. 1t is source of con-
ISOLATION to the ungodly, that if perdinon
is to be their doom, they shall suffer IN
goodly company; so do We find comfort
in the thought that if We err in preferring
the fixed, solid and certain basis which
-~-o-., .ba h,s;pass fropsact;nne in oil
those benighted nations that know not
Uncle Samuel, we err in company with
the great mass of the community among
whom our lot is cast. The Union propos-
es to reopen the discussion of the cur
rency question, and rejoices in the alliance
of the Carson Post. It is welli The dis
cussion may result in good. If so, We
shall share in the benefit. If it result dis
astrously, we are confident of being as
well able to stand it as our neighbors.
We have expressed our views of the sub
ject many and many time. Those views
we still entertain. To argue the question
further would be mere reiteration of the
same ideas, and we confess to dlstaste
for further agitation of the question. Let
our contemporaries turn themselves loose
and exhaust the arguments on their side,
and we shall endeavor to abide by the de-
cision of the people with that perfect resig-
nation becoming citizen of that great
nation whose cornerstone is the principle
that "the voice of the people is the voice
of God"