The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-04-28
Gold in the United states.


than was ever before known-s173, 900,
900 in gold, besides $50, 000, 900 in
silver. IF these figures were reversed
the gold bugs would point to them as
evidence that the people did not desire
! silver money. 1t will be remembered
after the passage of the silver bill
which remonetized that much abused
metal-ever and anon bulletins were
issued from Washington stating that
there were so many, and so many,
thousands Of silver dollars lying in the
treasury uncalIed for, and that the
Treasurer had great fears that he soon
would not have vault room to store
them unless the coinage was stopped.
Thereupon. with one voice, as if by
preconeerted arrangement, the gold bugs
and their journals and hirelings, pro-
claimed. that it was just what they
expected they knew the silver dollar
could not be ''hoated, and this in the
face Of the fact that it was notorious
that the Secretary of the Treasury was
using every means in his power to dis
credit silver dollars and toprevent their
distribution among the people.
In this connection it will not be out
of place to remark how the nations
which led the world 50 far along towards
financial ruin on the impracticable path
of monometalism, and whose example
we were advised to follow, are sneaking
shamefacedly back to bimetalism. When
+ the silver discussion first began in this
country il was arrogantly maintained
/ that the whole civilized world was
gradually and surely drifting towards
the single gold standard This claim
was so Extensively made that any denial
of it was treated as mere imbecility.
+ The person who dared to advocate the
RECOMMENDATION of silver was looked up
on with supercillious expression that
asked. as plain as words, 'Who art
s'thou little one, that places thy opinion
against that Of the great tee-nanciers
''of the world ?"
When at last the gold bugs discovered
that the people were no longer to be
/ trifed with, they come down button
hole or two and changed their tactics.
! They instructed their retainers to throw
tub to the popular whale in the shape
of silver dollar out of all proportion,
in number Of grains, to the one for
which the popular demand was made,
remarking at the same time, with
GOODNESS that was refreshing, 1--WE will
give you your silver toy, if We are
permitted to designate its size, know
cling full we'll that you will soon tire Of
sit, and in less than two years you will
s'admit that we are right and YOU are
wrong. Ii is folly to suppose in these
''davs of advanced civilization silver
'can be used as money; only gold will
"serye that purpose"
Another Of the arguments against
the reconciliation of silver, il will be
remembered, was that upon the passage
Of the bill, gold would begin to flow out
of the country and continue to do 50 az
long as silver retained the functions of
money. This all appears very foolish
now in the light of the facts. Time has
indicated the wisdom of the adherents
Of the silver bill, and made ridiculous
the high-sounding arguments of the
great statesmen who had risen above
the commonplace reasoning Of the peo-
pie,
These remarks are prompted by the
following dispatch which we take from
a Western exchange of a few days
since:
MILLIONS OF GOLD BULLION on HAND.
The treasury department. has increased
the bullion fund -, at the New York assay
office BY transfer of $4,000, 900 in gold
to enable the superintendent to pay for for~
eigu gold bullion and coin arriving at that
port. The United States Treasurer now
hold at the New York assay office and
Philadelphia mint nearly 10000 600 in
gold bullion. This amount is sufficient to
keep the Philadelphia mint constantly
employed for the next fifteen months.
bullion and coin for the current fiscal year
viii reach at least 100000, 600.
<-e-
The Cincinnati Commercial in Il
labored article on the health of the
country says: -Four of the best cities
''for health were Yonkers, n. Y, |
average life 10 years Omaha, Neb.,
average 6S years Utica, n Y, 67.5
''years Keokuk, Iowa, GIL years and
''four of the worst cities were Jackson
''viile, Fla, 81 years Yioksburg, Miss, |
:'34.8 years; Charleston, S c., 31.3
!'years, and Savannah, Ga, 800 years >
This does the South great injustice be-
cause the estimates for the North are
made upon the basis of an exclusively
white population, while those for the
South include the negro population
which is about one-half of the whole, /
and who are notorious for their improv-
ident and reckless habits, knowing and
caring nothing about the laws of hygiene /
and subject to diseases of which their
white peighbors have 10 experience |
1t is well-known that statistics show /
that the negro mortality in the United /
States is more than twice as large as the
death rate among the whites. As an
evidence of this we will cite the fact /
that number of the most prominent
life insurance companies have instructed /
their agents to take no risks upon the