Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1889-12-18
A NEW YORKER ON SILVER
He Sees the Eand-WTlting on
the Wall.

APPEAL OF DecSsnDef 7Iil TO HHu II
friendly private reminder Of tn
political waywardness of your edi
toriaI stray from the orthodo,
standard. should call forth in sait
issue of Dec. 4th, still stronger evi
dence Of the pfopriety of gooe
, "drubbing" The weli-earned cleo
ton OF Tom Reed to the Speaker
ship in an open fight naturally die
not leave boiling advocate in an
enviabie frame of mind, but il
scarcely justified the still more
reasonable proposition to bolt the
'92 Republican Presidential nomi-
nations unless-what ?-unless the
Administration gives tree coinage
to silver! Ii you will kindly re-read
my said private REMINDER you Will
find no attempt to give my views
or any eastern view" on the silver
| question. gave my views on the
| APPEALS position as a presumably
consistent, straightforward, Repub-
licaH sheet-simply point OF eth :
les; my humble idea being this !:
That inside the Republican party
itself should the missionary work
be done OF bringing the major per-
ton to any proposed project, line of
action or way OF thinking. The
probability of two great parties
dividing on the que stion OF free
coinage of silver would seem too
remote to justify any coy advances
of even a Nevada Republican to-
wards the hard-hearted Democrats
who stopped her Mint from coming
her own bullion. To bring about
hymeneal rites in that quarter and
set up housekeeping on purely
silver issue, would require a greater
political earthquake than the APPEAL
is in the habit of predicting.
confess that l NAV be 'ssadly
deficient in my knowledge OF the
silver question:" which appears to
be many-sided, with inscrutable
future tendencies and results. In
fact doubt If / comprehend what
the '-silver question" is from the
APPEAL standpoint. But L infer
that the APPEAL would advocate
compelling our Government to
stamp as money and declare it to |
be legal tender, whatever silver |
bullion might be brought to it, on
such basis as would make the said
bullion buy more than it viii now
do. If that could be the result of |
such action tor any considerable
tune, who could oppose it? Ger
tainly not he who owned or wished
to acquire landed property or inter
securities. The more
money the tenant has the more rent
he can pay. Tut fear your friends
IN the East will not partake, for /
1isclaim the millinery with which
you have so literally adorned my
Were it real instead
If fictitious, should still conject-
Ire the botton reason for "the de-
aging hosting wor IS" of Nevada
mines was rather owing to the want
# silver ore to heist than the diff
renee of few cents per ounce in
he value of the silver produced.
The ''gold bug of Wall street" is
n Illusion GgmeDt of your i'm {
gination. A great proportion of
he real mines, silver and gold, is {
wned in Wall street. The country t
, all one, and the interest of any
ertion is the interest of all, but q
sst must GO in the same direction
> the leg.
Probably free coinage, or an in
rease of the present coinage will !.
help the silver kings
10, in your section. to large sx-
mt, dig the ere on the assessment 2
Ian and then speedily turn it into :
lie bonds of the "gold bugs" or @
,ntable real estate. To bring this D
bout why should you over exert n
ourself, unless, indeed, you hap
IN to be one of the silver pro.
lcers? New YORK.