Arizona republican., 1892-03-16
SII.N Ek.

The first account of silver being used as money current with the merchant" as recorded in sacred history when Abraham, the father of the Jewish race, purchased the cave otMacphela from the son of Heth as burial place for the daughter of Terah ;-Sarah-his wife and half sister; but subsequent discov- cries have proved that silver was used as currency in the opulent cities of Euphrates and the Nile thousands of years before Abraham moved out west and started cattle ranch with capi- tai of branding iron, very much like some people have done in Arizona.
 To skip about 1000 years, during which time silver and gold, iron and copper were used as currency by clvi- lized and semi-civilzed mankind, we come to the organization of the Ameri- can, government when the American dollars composed of l00 cents was adopted as the unit of the currency of the Nation. The pillars of Hercules were continued on the dollar in com memoration of the tabled exploit of that doughty hero of antiquity in opening the Mediterranean on to the Atlantic ocean.
 In fact Uncle Sam had twins-one named "gold" and the other named "sil- ver," and they got along on terms of equality until trouble ensued in the family on account of the Civil war; when at family council held by the senate it was decided that one of the twins must die to save the life of the family.
 The lot of death fell on ''siver" and the bond holders who held mortgage on Uncle Sam's property, bought at a pa triotism of fifty cents on the dollar, hired an old granny by the name of sherman to commit the atrocity of strangling the child and decree was sirruptitiously passed through congress that "gold" should live and "silver" die.
 When 1 commenced working the sil- yer mines in Arizona (long before Neva- da was born )silver was worth l25 to l37 cents per ounce in the market at San Francisco, and Mexican dollars sold at a premium Of 10 to b per cent for ex- portation to Asia.
 Now silver is worth 80 cents per ounce in the market and Mexican dol lars 70 to 75 cents.
 There is a great deal of difference be- tween selling wheat for l25 cents per bushel and 80 or 90 cents and the only difference between a wheat field and n silver mine is that the mine has less value the more it is worked; and the wheat field increases in value with ages of irrigation.
 The wheat fields in Mesapotamia and along the Nile yield as much or more than they did in the days of the splen- dor of the Assyrians and the Pharaohs.
 The mines of King Solomon (if the whole story is not a Jewish metaphor cannot be found.
 The denomination of silver as it is called but putting it in familiar Ian. guage stranglIng the twin has paralyzed that industry in western America and Mexico. The silver miners are working for dead child-alas!
 The president promises the west relief but candidate will promise anything before election and perform nothing 
 The only hope visible for the restora- tion of the strangled twin to life is in an act of congress restoring the American dollar to it's former usefulness and honor.
 A greenback which is not iDtrinsicslly worth iarthing goes for it's face be cause "it has the image and superscrip tion of Caesar"
 1 should like to know why an Anne ri- can dollar with the same "image and would not be "money current with the merchant"
 C. D, F,