Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1892-01-27
Walker Lnce Bulletin.
Official Paper of Esmeralda County
SALT LAKE TRIBUNE: It is dis

SALT LAKE TRIBUNE: 1t is dis
couraging to see newspaper on the
West coast that talks as idiotie aad as
vicious at the same time as the yerlesl
purchased sheet Of the goldites in New
York City. But such paper is the
San Francisco Bulletin The writer
on silver in that paper is particularly
sggravatlng, because he writes in
style, and his words have a tone which
say: There cannot be any possible
mistake about this, The man thai doubts
or questions the perfect accuracy OF
either our stalecaents or conclusions
should either be Kissed for a fool or
damned for a rogue lie simply as
sumes that silver has reached its pres
ent price, compared with gold, through
natural causes. and that TO propose Tor
the Government 10 undo its work Of
IS years ago and TO give silver au
equal chance before the law with gold,
Is nothing more nor less than propo-
sitlon to sell IA cents worth of silver
for 100 cents worth of gold. lie does
not knew the fact that IN making his
statement, he ignores the significant
truth that there IL Inference between
money and commodity. lie does not
know the fact apparently that ali
things are valuable according to the
demand for them and according TO the
quantity. He does not understand that
silver has fallen in comparison with
gold, simply because the Government
withdrew Its demand for silver, and
Withdrew from it its reorganization of
silver as q precious metal. and money.
And while he rants and raves he does
not understand that il silver is at a
discount so is California wheat, SO is
California honey, so is California wool,
so 10 California wine, SO is every pro-
duct of loom and of land in Calif"r
mia. In other words, he does not
know that when the California farmer
goes out with his grapes, or with his
wool, or with his honey, or with his
mission blankets, or with his lumb der,
or with any other of the manifold
products of the Golden State, TO buy
the geld necessary TO pay the mortgage
10 h,n or IN his tha
bank, he has to give up one-haf as
much again as he had to give 10 years
xgo for the same thing.
II he will but study this, he will pos
sibly SEQ why under the Italian sky Of
California, above the productive soil
Of California, in place blessed by ma
ture, A. no other State in the Union is
blessed, and the men who work are
complaining that they are making
nothing. They are charging it to
railroad monopoly, or to the tariff, or
to some other fool thing, and do not
understand that on the narrow basis of
gold, money is made so much more
valuable than property that there is no
reward left for toll If he will study
that part Of the business little he
msy come down perhaps from his tall
horse, and consent for the time being
to pony, or if he will fully study the
question, he may possibly conclude
that burrc would be the most appre-
pirate thing for him 10 ride. And that
when any man, be he the editor of n
great paper, or be but just an ordinary
common scrub, makes up his mind
that he has reduced a certain subject
to an exact science, and that to disagree
with him is certain evidence of
either iMbecility, insanity or dlshon-
esty, there is just chance that the
wise man may be mistaken, and that
all the time while writing so pro
foundly he may be making monu-
mental ass of himself.