The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-01-18

metallist, and he may pgoQss>y % -
down q . crank. He undosbtedIy &c
uuired his ideas On the silver question .
! . remote place and time, and his linn
tied brain Recommendations have pre-
vented the Intrusion AZ ansther an
more senaible one upon It. The n,ann
derines from such y source can do N
harm here. II IL On the outside Of tn
Territory where they are liable to b
quoted and useo - IN evidences aontns'
it, Interests BY enemies Of the industry
that enenges the attention and capital d
. great majority Of the people In THU
section and many more In other silver
producing camps.
We will suppose, for instance, that
mono,netallist 0f Congress rises In hia
place and says: II hold in my hand
newspaper published 1t Butte, Montana.
That city - one Of the great silver-pro-
ducing sections Of the West. Its local.
~ relieves the paper Of any Suspicion Of
London or Wall street influence. 1t h
non-partisan in politics and presumably
independent Of party dictation. II its
ability is to lie Judged BY its size it should
be fairly respectable. The extracts !
read are from an article In reply to some
thing which appeared in the Denver
Tribune III y recent date. The
sentiment in favor Of silver h %
extreme in Colorado that no pa
per lares advocate the siugle standard
there. Neither would any person have
the temcrity to do it In Montana in the
face Of an open adverse sentiment. SO,
it IL fair to presume, the intelligent peo-
pie Of that territory have the cousage to
sacrifice their interests for the cause Of
truth, and are not seeking to force
worthless metal on the world for their
own ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Such self4lenying
disintertYtedness Is noteworthy in this
selfish world. While every section Of
the country L. crowding the halls Of
congress with petitions praying for the
encouragement and protection Of Ito
special industry, the selfsacrilicing ex-
ample of the patriots Of Montana, as
voices! in this paper, will stand forth in
this venal age 10 the shadow Ut . great
r0ck in u weary land, ia fruitful OasisOf
knowledge in desert Of ignorance"
He would then proceed to read from
the Inter Mountain Of the 18th inst, the
.i,lls>winv exfr,acis.
IAN accommodating mass Of short
weight dollars which overflow the
Treasury vaults and cannot be. forced !
into circulation it 1.-THE Denver zribuMc)
regards ~ the palladium of the county's
safety. The dollar thst We now use,
and which is being coined mt the rate OF |
Two millions u month, represents Is |
cents Of intrinsic value: fOur-iifths IL |
real worth AMI one-lifth imitation. This |
kind Of lo0se and deceptive talk is in
duIged because it Is supposed to win ia
v"r with silver mine owners. But We
question whether any sensible man,
miner, mefchant or manufacturer, he
iicvrs that his interest is advanced by
such shallow sophi>try.
ia this CLAUSE Of the bill the bland bill
rlasSes, that il was aMDn talked down.
and thu free coinage provision was
to save the rest If the MEAS
urc from Arrrl.>s Ihr.litiOn.
We Se3Q mt that the ratio Of H.! to I
l,:;1 not Aaen recovered, and the dollars
Win0d on that basis are dis
llOisOrt'd OH account "ftl,cir light weight.
We cannot see the wisdom Of CUNtin,l-
ing this coinage. and We cannot soc
our silver producers arr belne-
sttt0 by thu government continuing
Inc manufacture Of light weight dollars.
An honest inquiry into the
acts Of the cast. shows that our inflated,
silver currency III no way lN.Mctit~ hull
ion Prs"lucel> and is really harmful to
he country"
Although extracts like the foregoing,
rom = journal published in tn. first
mining amp in the west, arr calculated
- siO tn. silver interest immense harm,
md bee. iOted far more effectively than
/ comm" dire .ly from I."n.l"n or Wall
irsrt, slit there is some compensation
against til ,ir NJ schief; they carry upon
heir facr evidences III l'eing the utter
'n,,~ If i,,ol. The statement that silver
'rsmlucis are not lxnctit,.i hy the
government continuing the ''c.'inagc Of
light weight dollars'' is palpaplc pro"f
fl >cniie in,bscility or outright idiocy.
NTH rs much show Of SENSE might it
u stated that silver producers would
'M l.. injured ifthe government sl..N,l,l
the coinage "f silver alto
ether.
The frequent use If the expression
d0llars," by the Mt.r
'f"""f"" certaialy shows the losses-
ion of lightweight int ll.rt by that
'urnal. Silver, intrinsicslly, is Of
more value than ID. 1t is extensively
>e,l in the mech: inical arts, while gold
nters hut little in them. suppose gold I
hould b. dir'nonetised throughout the
World, its value would not equal that Of ,
ron. In view Of the fAct that gold and
liver derive their value from, their usc :