The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1882-02-22

Our antt-silver contemporary the H.
ter Mountain, in its issue last evening,
dishes out to its readers ito usual ill-di-
gesttsl and shallow reasoning upon the
silver question. 1t would seem that q
person possessed Of fair reasoning now
ers and having access to the reports Of
officials whose duty it has been to COZ
late statistics bearing upon this subject,
which reports cover the movements Of
the precious metals for the lust decade
Or two can arrive at but one conclusion
touching the wisdom Of the coinage act
Of'7S. 1t has becn shown that that
act made resumption possible; that it
gave Vitality to languishing indus
tries; infused new life and vigor
into those which were fairly prosperous,
and marked new era Of prosl Gritty in
the United States. 1t has also been
shown that our exports of silver have
been largely in excess Of our imports Of
the same metal, that silver is constantly
approaching IN value, that foreign nt
tons are eagerly purchasing 1t ana our
own people gladly taking it. Still, in
the faa,c Of these facts, our anti-silver
contemporary keeps up it's senseless chat
ter about our fraudulent dollars" our
''dishOncst tlollars,' not being in circu-
lation; that 1.-the people will not use
them ut home, and they cannot Ike sent
Abroad" From the prtinacity with
which our neigllln,r has continued its
attack upon the silver industry Of this
vicinity We arr led to believe it honestly
thinks rs it speaks. But cranks are
found nearer Butte tl,a., is the cell in
which (;uitcau relNDses ut Washington.
We have evidence Of this fact in the an
lcarance Of tho crude notions concern
ing silver which, periodically appear in
the columns Of our evening cx,tcn,ln,r-
airy.
Some way, who evidently delights in
with, s.ing the ground and lofty tu,n-
bling vt the xmfer Mountain when it at
telllpts to discuss the silver question,
must have given it IN old copy of the
New York Mining Record yesterday,
accompanied with the injunction to
''rcad what some paper had said about
silver, and then ''go after" the MINER
ami all other advocates Of hi-lllctallic
currency. How our anti-silver neigh !
l"r acquitted itself in thc onslaught |
may IL sem in the shallow, illogical |
'lrivel which occupied column Of its !
last evenings issue. The Inter .N,w..-
tai", as usual, knows just where to stop
1t is AN adept ut garhling and !
picks ont what suits its purpose, but |
on',ts to quote the irrefutablc argu-
mcnts under which it. nicely chosen
are swampesl. The extracts Of
which the Inter Mountain has made
such poor use are found in an able arti- !!
Gle which appears in the Record Of
the 4th inst., under the caption |
"Et ru Brute-Struck in the House Of |
its Friends" The Mining Record had |
stated, ''tllat the il2!! grain dollar con-
tains s.Ni per cent. more silver for one
hundred cents in gold than is given BY |
Great Britain, Germany and France"
This assertion the Lcaslville Herald CO
pied and in the next sentence asks, |
This may be true, but is not the obi
CATION imperative that dollar in silver |
should lie the absolute eql,ai in value o. |
q dollar in gold::' TO the question the !
Record gives flat negative. We are |
sorry that lack Of space prevents our re-
producing the unanswer:sble article Of !
that able friend of the silver industry in !!
answer to the Herald. But we cannot |!
do less than give . couple Of paragraphs
which may answer ~ well for our anti
silver contemporary as for the Lea.lville