Arizona weekly citizen., 1890-04-26

THE silver question IS the most i'm portant item before the people of this country, at present. Everybody IS cor cerned in it, not merely, as sonic may think, the silver miner and those con nscted with him, but everybody who in any way uses money. The present hard times are due to the lack, of sufficient funds for current purposes. The farmer, whose lot is at present being so much dsplored, as head over heels in debt and his available property mortgaged for every cent he can get on it, must have money to live on. There being an in- sufficient amount Of currency in circula- 1t on, hard times must necessarily ensue
 The man who has products to sell, must take what he can get for them; if money is scarce, and he is unable to wait for better times, so much the worse, he can .only grin and bear it.. The capitalist CD uhe contrary feels none the stringency, it is to hIs interest to make money scarce and dear. He robs the masses by mani pulating the current funds to feather his own nest. This outrageous con- traction of the currency is what suits him, and of course he would fight all measures to increase the circulation. It is the old story of labor and capital, but in a new form; the rich growing richer, the poor poorer. In putting enough money into circulation, is to be found a remedy for these evils. That a greater amount of currency for circulation is needed, has come to be an admitted fact. Business cannot be allowed to stagnate and grow s duller at the present alarming rate; |: something must be done, and that quick ly, too. It must brighten up. The farmer must have money for his pro- ducts; with his prosperity comes the prosperity of the mechanic, merchant. manufacturer, and mill employee. With this crying evil for greater circulation, why hesitate for one moment, to rein state silver to its true place, on an equal as standard of value with gold? There is not nearly enough gold to make it alone an available standard. Silver has been a medium of exchange ever since the world began, and is just as rare per capita, in the United States, as it has been at any time. The increase of popu- lation, indeed, is in greater proportion than the output of the silver mines No danger is therefore to be apprehend- ed from of an oVsrplus of silver. More money must be had to meet the increas- ing population, and any other course than bi-metalism would be suicidal. With the resources oi almost inexhaustable silver. producing territory, no other medium of exchange need be looked for, than a paper cur -rency formed on silver basis.
 By the act of 1873, resulting in the degradation and decentralization of silver and the making of it mere commodity,
 has resulted in the reduction of all values B per cent. and in the same pro- portion has indebtedness increased. Fac tories, homes, farms, ard all kinds of property were made cheap, and mOISy was made scarce and dear, finally re-
 sulting in the present condition of af- fairs. Silver should be restored to its right and proper place Of equal standard ship with gold. Times will then become more prosperous, and everybody will bt benefited by it. and not merely, as some pretend to think, the silver producer who, however, is as deserving of pros perity as any of his countrymen.