Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1885-11-27

Salt Lake Tribune.


for the Government to call in the sill,
yer dollars already coined and, in.
ereasing their weight by enough to
make them on par with the gold
dollar, recon them; arguing that the
Government would only lose what it
has already made through buying the
bullion at discount. Our cores
pondent is evidently perfectly sin
cere man and deserves candid an
swer. We have, in effect, tried to
make the matter plain on many occa-
sions. Were the Governor of Idaho
to decree that henceforth no bread
should be made in Idaho out Of wheat
en- -four, but that all bread should be
made out of corn meal, and had he
the power to enforce the decree, our
correspondent will readily see that
the price Oh wheat would fall and the
price Of corn advance, because the
chief use that men make Of wheat
would be taken away and the demand
for corn would double. In that case
it would not help matters to say that
henceforth bushel of wheat should
weigh 40 instead of 60 pounds, in
order to make the 100 pounds of
wheat worth as much as Sc pounds of
corn. Precisely in the same way the
apparent value of the silver dollar has
decreased; not because there is too
much silver, but because of tremen-
dous conspiracy to take from silver
the chief use to which it has been de-
voted for hundred generations.
Because of the double burden placed
upon gold, that has advanced in val
ne compared not only with silver, but
to every other form of property. In
such an emergency the plain duty is
not to pay a royalty on the rascality
which has thus far been perpetrated,
and not to offer premium to incite
further rascality in future, but to I'M
do the Legislation that has made all the
confusion. The only question is as to
results. A great many timid people
fear that if our Government, without
an agreement with foreign govern
ments, decides upon that course, the
United States will be showed under
with the avalanche of silver which
will be started down upon us. The
answer to that is that through the
years the Orient has never returned
the silver poured into it, except in
the case of China sending back some
trade dollars. All the Spanish Ameri-
can countries have no standard but
silver. The demand for silver in In
dia and China amounts to some $780,
ooo,ooo per annum. The whole pro-
duct OF the mines of the world, out
side OF our own country, does not
meet that demand into some $25,OO0,-
900. Besides that there is a vast
of silver consumed in the arts
All the silver in Europe is
IN coin, and most of it is in actual
circulation as money. Were the
whole amount dumped upon us it
would not give the people of Ameri-
ca nearly as much per capita, added
TO all we now possess, as the men of
France have. Hence we hold that
he fear OF great crushing avalanche
u silver upon us. in case silver is by
aw restored to its old place, is a
sroundless one; that Europe could
not suddenly raise and pay out $780,
100000 in silver without it's causing
he metal to take its old place beside
# gold. Hence we do not desire
hat the weight of the silver dollar {
hall be changed, but that the law
hall read that, just as of old, men