The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1880-09-04
THE CRUSADE AGAINST sEBvER..

Dispatches from Washington say that
there is an increasing demand from all
parts Of the United States for standard
dollars, and three hundred thousand
more of them were put in circulation in
the month of August just passed than
IN August, 1879. This increased de-
nand; 1t should be remembered, is to
aupply the wants of business, and is
not due to any effort on the part of the
Treasury Department to get them into
circulation. On the contrary, the Sec
rotary Of the Treasury, who predicted.
financial chaos if the Silver bill became
law, is welding his influence to pre-
vent them from being taken from the
Treasury vaults. ALP the leading Re-
publican papers of New York city are
seconding the efforts of John Sherman,
and urge as one of the reasons why
Garfield should be elected, his opposi-
tion to the coinage of standard dollars.
They speak derisively of the Silver bill,
and. point to- the millions of dollars
stored in the vaults, as. proof that the.
people do not want silver. They hope
TO secure the repeal of the Silver bill by
the next Congress, and know that Gar
field, if elected, will only be too will
ing to sign such bill. In, this they
are assisted by the Sacramento Record
Union, the organ of, the Central Pacific
Railroad Company and if they succeed,
we will again see the employees of that
company, as they were before the pass
age of that bill, paid exclusively in
silver, which was sold in San Francisco
atfrom four to six per cent, discount,
while the Railroad Company exacted.
gold for all amounts over five dollars
for fares and freights. That we may.
not be accused Of misrepresenting the
Record Union, whose articles are fire.
quently echoed in. the Virginia Enter
prise, the organ of another railroad
company, we give its exact language,
as printed in its issue of August 2Sth,
which is as follows, in an article head.
ed. 'The Silver Incubus:
"Already the silver coin stands for
SS,000.000 less than it processes to
stand for. Who is to. bear that loss?
We answer, the people; and especially
and first, the wage-earning classes. 1t
will be the duty Of the Republican
party to- demand and insist upon the
cessation of silver coinage; and the rel-
egation of the Bland dollars to the
harmless position of subsidiary coins
As legal tender it must be demone-
tized, and the sooner this, is done. the
Better it will be for the country"
That the Record. Union mis-states
the facts ls.well know to the "wagc-
earning classes" who worked for the
Central Pacific Railroad Company be-
fore the passage Of the Silver bill.
Those classes, as the railroad paper web
Knows, were paid, as before stated, all
their wageain silver coins, then worth
from 81 to &C. cents per dollar. while
the company refused to take over S. in
silver for fares and freights. Now the
railroad paper has the efrontery to
state, in the face of those facts, that
the 'wage-earning classes" are losers
lily the passage of the bill. This charge
denotes the estimation which the Rec
Ord-Union places-on the intelligence of
the men who work for the Central Pa
oi6c Railroad Company. 1t asserts.
~ fact what they, know by expert
ence is false, and hopes that they have
notsufficient intelligence. to detect the
falaehood.