Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1881-03-13

President Garfield has nominated a
tremendous team to represent the United
States at the European Silver Conference.
We are sorry, says the Salt Lake Tri-
hune that Senator Jones was not nomi-
mated instead of Howe, for it would have
been but fair to have given the man a
n,sce who knows more about the direct
bearings Of silver upon and
mon society than any other one man in
the world. Still we believe that. if ex-
Senator Thurman accepts the place he
viii. before he sails, bend all his energies
10 a thorough study of the subject, and
II he does there is not a man in Europe
who can overstep him in requirements or
in that subtle judgment which reaches a
conclusion with mathematical precision.
Evarts eau be trusted for all the emer-
oencies Of debate, and while we suspect
that his education i~nclines him to look
with favor upon a gold standard, he can
not be Indifferent to some of the lessons
which the last years have taught, and
more. he can not be Indifferent to the fact
that partial silver reconciliation is fixed
beyond accident in the United States
that an overwhelming majority OF the
people of his own country have deter
mined that the real money of the world
shall not, by making silver mere mer-
chandise, be taken away and denied its
legitimate use. Then he, too, is a thor
ough man in everything he undertakes,
and is great enough to change his opinion
sometimes. And the chances are a
hundred to ten that if he commences in
earnest the study of the subject, his own
reasoning will guide him to the inevitable
fact that silver, for the everyday trade OF
the world, for the myriads OF little trans
actions which t~ranspire between the poor,
is a more natural measure Of values than
gold, and that silver and gold should be
In commerce, asin their native matrix, in
dissolubly connected.
Then he will not fail to see that the an
nual product Of silver is far less (only
one-half) that of gold, that among four
ffths of the human family silver is the
exclusive measure of values, while among
civilized nations, just now, those nations
which use both metals are most prosper
GUS. All our Commissioners too will not
fail to note the fact, that notwithstand-
ing the immense amounts of gold and
silver in the country, together with the
hundreds Of millions Of ~greenbacks and
National bank notes, still it is all that the
bankers of the United States can do to
move the crops, and what is equivalent
to a new State is being added, with its
trade, annually, while the added mighty
works Of peace, the building Of roads, the
opening Of mines, the erection Of new
manufactures, the creation Of new cities,
the expansion of old ones, and a thousand
other works which Of old would have re-
quired q generation to complete, but
which now are completed in a single sea-
son; all these point u~nvaryingly to the
fact that as the world does now in a
single year what of old required a score
of years, it needs twenty times as much
money as formerly. And this must be
good money, something which a year of
misfortune will not cause to depreciate in
value /; something which rust will not
corrode or FIRE consume. Europe is in a
of business depression, all save
France 4; that depression is SO severe that
business houses by hundreds are trem-
bling on the brink of ruin, and something
must be done. 1t will not astonish us if
with the close of that conference, silver,
on the basis Of the American dollar, be-
ome the money, the same as gold, with
all the world except Great Britain.