Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-07-07
WEEKLY CITIZEN.
SATURDAY. JULY ', 1888
CLEyELAND's STATUS TO THE WEST
 ERS STATES ON SILVER.

CLEyELAND's STATUS TO THE WEST
 ERS STATES ON SILVER.
 Interviews are being published and assertions are being made by the Demo cratic press to the effect that Grovef Cleveland vii defeat Harrison ID the Vast. To read these fsllscious state raents. sn unintormed person would b. lead 10 believe that Cleveland stood to California ss the Kiug Bee in Chimes Joss House does 10 our slm0nd-eyed servitors, To assert that the sdmInis- trstion of Cleveland has gwen sstisfso sion to the silver states of the west, is s sublmity of claim that is creditsblt even 10 Democrats, and ought 10 make them fall to, andIhug themselves, thsns- ing their lucky stars for their absolute usurpstion of thst unflinching stock ir trsie. design sted as cheek.
 Grover Cleveland had scarcely wsrmec himself ID the Wbite House, ard filled lis capscious premises with the wiLI sad honey that flows within, when b. snd his Secretary Of the Treasury, the late Daniel Manning, came boldly Co 'hs front as gold bugs. in the interest 0' the bnndholiers snd moneyed men o' the east. It is true that Cleveland tenn porarily posed ss sn sdvocste of s'lve . t2 the ex ent Of send nR sn ,misssrJ sbrosd, in the person of Manton Marble. to make sn arraDgement-as vas alleged by which silver should once more b. reiustated in it's old place ia the tscs realm. and this was to be accom- plIshed b, arranging SO ths, the mints of .he worlc should be sgain opened to the coinsg' of silver, ss they had ever heretotorr been from their inception. The mar who vas selected to perform tbis gigau- tic task. Msnion Msrble, wss not msn who believed ths: si VET was 8 suitsbl' metal for money purposes. He was onf of the most pronounced enemies of sil yer, be did not believe in its use here or elsewhere, Was he R proper agent for the President to send abroad to sc- complish @ great improvement ID none isry stfsirs with his prejudices, and biased opinions? Is ii for 6 moment to be believed that if the President was really desirous of accomplishing the uonetizston of silver throughout th world. be would select ss his medium the worst enemy silver had, ss be eel taiuly did in the person of MRnton Mar bles No, it was one of the Pre7idents blufs, for which he has become cele- brs.ed. if was 8 piece of of the same stuff whence comes civil service Rnd n-partissnship, etc. Manning was pronounced against silver, alleging itF over-production, and that it had fallen in relative value to gold because it va foo plentituI. IL is true that silver will Eot purchase ss much gold as n loi5' but it will buy more wheat. corn, lands ships and manufactures to day than wheu ]. was interchangeable 15la ozs. ot silver 10 one oun.e of gold. There has ben no spprecisole tsl in silver. but a. yergance between silver and gold. Inn has not been brought about by su over production of silver. as Cleveland sn Manning asserted, but by 8 discrimln- alton ss ainst silver by its demOnetizs lion, and by the large use Of gold 1T countries form rly using paper. Now had Cleveland and Manning worked at honestly for a more satisfactory state of affairs, in the coinage ot silver 1T Europe as they did to discard silver they might have been appreciated Tn th silver-p,oduciug states of the west, ou for them 10 take the ground ot an over production of this precious metal, | f.roisl. in the light of the fact that tbr produotion of silver varies from S9O, GOO 600 to slOO 100000 per snnum' O. x5,ch i, is estimated from S35,OOO,OOO 10 e40 OOo 900 is dsed for the arts, tableware and ornameutz, leaving sn annual pro duotiou of s60,0OO 900. much of which disappears in Indis, China and IurSey' and never appears again iu the hands oi eiyillzstion. But le. us take it for grant ed inst s6O,0OO,OO0 is coined annually for money purposes throughout the world. it's effect on the S3 5OO.OOO.OOO said to he s close estimate of the worlds sIl yer. is like the effect Of 8 rivulet on tht ocesn-soarcely s ripple is perceptiole by it's addition. T. Is true that the hos tile attitude of the present sdministrs- tion towards silver, is not dissinilsr 'c inst of some Republican sdministra- tions, but why ClevelRnd's friends shoulc claim that he has captured the Pacific Coast in the coming election, is hard to understand Certainly it IS not hif silver record. which would damn hls Sd ninistration ID states much less intef- ssted in the absorbing topic ot silver than California, Nevada, Oregon, ano Colorado. What protection is to the industries of the country, the general monetiEstion of silver IS to the entire vest, snd the people living ID reEion [ Gioh in mineral deposits will be pretty positive ir November when they go to the polls. They will go there to vote for better silver administration tnsh Clevelsnd's
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 DB. TAaGERT, of Yuma, had on eIhi-