The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1891-09-19
SILVER DOLLARS WANTED.
The following bona fide proposition
down to us from Idaho:

comes down to us from Idaho:
NOTICE.
OFFICE OF RED CLOUD MINING Co.,
HALEY, Idaho, Sept. 8, 1891.
Bids for delivering at this office from
5000 to 10000 silver dollars of the United
States coinage, or so called cheap dollars,
per month, from date, will be received at
this Office, to be opened on the first OF
each month until the passage of a free
coinage law.
Bidders will be required to furnish a
guarantee of good faith, by bond or
otherwise, as a bid under one hundred
cents per dollar by any party other than
the United States government will be
regarded by us with suspicion.
No bids above ninety-nine and one
half cents per dollar will be considered,
while bids below seventy-tive cents per
dollar are not expected at the present
price of silver.
In case the United States government
desires to bid, we will not require any
guarantee other than an agreement to
share the profits Of the transaction with
us.
RED CLOUD MINING COMPANY,
E. b. TRUE, Superintendent.
In a private note Mr.. True explains
that he has seer 80 much through the
press about silver dollars not being
worth a hundred cents that he is anx-
ious to procure some. He says he is
now paying a hundred cents for all used
on the mine; that if there is any truth in
what Mr.. Harrison and Mr.. Sherman
and Mr.. Cleveland claim, he thinks he
easily ought to be able to obtain five or
ten thousand dollars a month at a dis
count.
There is a great deal of irony in the
foregoing. The high officers Of the gov
eminent always in a plying tone say
they are most anxious to have silver rec
ognized as money, but the moment any
proposition is made to carry out their
seeming desire they are all up in arms
and fight what they call a cheap dollar.
This gentleman has a large force of men
at work that he has to pay off every
he pays them a portion Of their
wages IN silver dollars; he wants to get
them, if they are 40 cheap in the east,
1t a discount. He offers to divide the
if any gentleman will supply
hem. And the lesson of the whole bust.
ness is, that if, with all their talk, the
officers of the government cannot supply
dollars at less than one hundred
each, if the government of the
United States would but say so, the
dollars would be worth a hundred
anywhere around this old world.
The silver dollar business makes us long
or Hoods Sarsaparilla," because it
lives us that tired feeling
Think of it! All the states of Spanish
america favor silver; all the hosts of
ndia have only a silver standard; it is
practically so among all the hundreds of
Millions in the Chinese empire: it is all
he money except a little paper money
hat the masses of Russia ever see; half
he money of France is in silver: the
eserve in the Bank of England is one
ourth silver; the governor of the Bank
f England says there is not gold enough
n the world to serve as a basis for the
trade. And yet our statesmen
ay that if the 65,OO0,OOO of people in the
United States, backed as they are by the
ichest country on earth, in need as they
re of twice as much money as the same
lumber of people elsewhere on earth,
are to say that henceforth they will take
he ground that the fathers did, and
lake silver a full measure of values. the
esult will be disaster. Did ever before
set of wise asses SO discount the glory
nd the power of their own country:
Hon. L. f. COLLINS, chairman of the
tate democratic committee. in announc-