The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1884-09-12
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS.

makes some suggestions In communl-
cation printed in another column, which
deserve the consideration of all who are
engaged in or benefited by that great
industry. In this campaign 1T seems
that self.interest is the controlling mo-
tive of persons engaged in certain in
dustries, regardless of its effect on the
general welfare. Here in Nevada there
are only four commodities produced for
expectation. Three of these-namely,
silver, beef and wheat, are not protect
ed by the tariff laws, while wool u.s.
The silver miner has to sell his bullion
at the price which it commands in the
London market; the wheat grower has
to sell his grain at the price it will
bring in the Liverpool market; and the
price of beef, though mainly regulated
on this coast by the supply and de-
mand, is also, to some extent, in
fuenced by its value in European mar
kets. The wool growers alone, of all
the producers in Nevada, are protected.
A duty of from five cents to twelve
cents per pound is imposed on all woods
the value of which is twelve cents or
more per pound in Australia or South
America, to protect the wool growers,
while the bullion, wheat and beef pro-
ducers must dispose of their products
as best they can. Why, then, if self
interest alone is involved in the present
campaign, should not the bullion pro-
ducers, and all who are directly and
indirectly interested in mining, follow
the example of the wool growers, and
resolve to give their political support
only to the party or candidate who
favor their interests? Let the grain
growers of Nevada, who in the last
year shipped hundreds of tons Of wheat
over the Central Pacific Railroad TO
Port Costa, to be disposed of at the
price which it was selling at in Liver.
pool, less cost of transportation, COM
mission and other incidental expenses,
organize and pledge themselves latter
the manner of the wool growers, to sup
port no party or candidate that does
not favor the reduction of the tariff on
wool, on sugar, on iron-in short, on
everything they consume in the produc-
tion of grain, and emphatically declare
that if self-interest, and not the great
est good for the greatest number, is to
be the ruling motive in politics, they.
will take hand in the game Let the
bullion producers of the State, and
everybody who is directly benefited by
silver mining, organize and resolve that
as they are losing from twelve to
eighteen per centum on the product OF
their labor by reason of unfriendly leg
islation, that they will support only the
men and the party that advocate the
free coinage of silver on equal terms
with gold at the United States MINIS.
Under existing laws miners are obliged
TO sell their bullion at discount of from
twelve to sixteen or eighteen dollars on
each and every hundred dollars they
produce. and this discount goes into the
United States Treasury as profit on
coinage. Abolish this discount, which
is high enough to ruin any legitimate
business in the world, and an impetus
will be given to mining which will re-
suit in the working of thousands Of tons
of tailings, and the resumption of oper-
atoms on many old mines, besides de-
veloping new ones, and giving employ
ment to thousands of men, and restor-
ing prosperity to our impoverished
State. In resolving to support only the
party and the candidates that are favor.
ably disposed toward the silver interest,
the miners will display less selfishness
than the wool growers. as by restoring
silver to its old standard by making its
coinage, like that OF gold, free at the
minis. they will benefit not only
themselves but the whole community