Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-10-01
BENJAMIN BUTLER.
His Views on the Silver QUes-
tioH, Money Kings and the
Way.Is-s rstalIircDrp

Butler, being interviewed, said
Silver is only a manufactured
article. 1t is the utmost nonsense
in the world this talk about gold
and silver as bases for circulation
About 3 per cent. of the gold in cir
culation is lost annually by wear OF
destruction. Four per cent. Of sill
yer is so lost. When a piece Of
coin is destroyed, the man who has
it loses its value. The Govern
ment also loses it value, because
the so-called intrisic value no longer
exists. When a piece Of paper
money is lost the man who has it
looses its value and the Govern
ment gains that much. The prop
erty Of all the United States is
pledged for every dollar of paper
money or other circulating medium
that it issues. Gold and silver are
only parts of the property of
the country, and they are very
small parts. What folly is it to
say that one part only of the
country's property shall stand good
for the redemption of currency,
when they can have all Of it so
pledged by doing away with gold
and silver altogether. If these
metals were still in the mines they
would be just as valuable as a basis
for circulating medium as now.
There is no necessity for their use
at all. The stamp of the Govern
ment is all that is necessary to es-
tablish the interchange. The Chi
nese know better than we how to
put away their metal wealth. They
pave their cellars with it, in great
flags or squares. Then if a man is
seen carrying off one Of the squares
he is asked where he got it. It
would be the same with the gold
and silver in bars, but for the Gov
stamp upon 1t. When I
took possession of New Orleans
there was 100000 Mexican silver
dollars among the seizures. I had
it done up in great packages that
weighed more than one man could
carry. It was stacked up in the
Custom House. There was nc
guard over it, but it was guarded
by the eyes of the multitude and
none of it was ever lost
BLOOD IN HIS EYES.
Continuing on the silver question
be said: "Let them keep it up,
pile on the people this and more.
and in the end they will rise and
throw off the yoke. 1 have grand
children who will live to see the
and Goulds taken out
md hanged to the nearest lamp
post. After there has been blood |
he'd we shall settle down again for
while. Those money kings sec
he dangers already, but they do |
lot see the remedies. When l was
candidate for President, Gould |
aid Butler must be driven into
he ground He couldn't see that
t was better for man with consid-
rable wealth and family and prop
rty interests to be at the bead of
he masses and able to control them
lie only saw in the background the
orch of communism, as he thought.
ome day a real red communist
ill lead these men, and then he
ill see the difference. Every man
, a communist now, in the eyes Of
he community, who breaches the
quality of man. Christ was a
communist of Jerusalem. As the
cad of the labor element, [ could
ave settled this whole railroad
uestion as no other man could set
e it.
THE GREAT MISTAKE.
The mistake | made in running
n President was like running
yainst stone wall. l knew that
lie people in all ages had foiled ]
in every crisis of i'm
ortance to themselves. 1t is the
STORY Of the ages but I was fool
h enough to think that the people
I'd grown wiser and better that
e world had progressed in the d. \
ction. of human knowledge and
,derstandings and power of con-
ntration. I thought that the labor
8 of the new republic were more 4
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