The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1892-01-14
PIOCHE. NEVADA, THURSDAY. JANUARY IA. 1899.


nized as money, would be be disastrous
to our country, would drive out all the
gold and do numerous other damaging
things; but give us silver as money for
four years, and no effective argument in
favor Of again demouetizing it will ever
be produced. demonstration Of silver
will settle the tariff question aud pro-
vide market, by stimulating the indus
try of mining, for the product Of every
farm and factory in this broad land.
When the wheels Of hosting engines are
spinning and carload after carload Of oil.
yer ore, containing also much gold and
lead and copper, is being shipped to
smelters and worked, refined aud put
upon the market, then does the farmer
and manufacturer prosper, for those who
dig this ore. .,thoss who smelt and refine
ID, and all who have part,in Transforming
II from portion of mother earth to a
metal in market, require to be fed,
clothed aud housed. And, like other
people, II they can obtain laxuries they
are the ones that will indulge in them.
Not only this. bat the currency Of the
world will have been increased; for by
recognizing silver at its true value, the
purchasing power Of dollar, which rep
resents certain amount Of labor, 10 in.
creased. Therefore . days work is
warth myae with silver at par than at
discount. A dollar Of any kind Of money
represents something doing, something
accomplished. If man works one day,
for three dollars, then those three dollars
represent that days work. If the stand.
ard Of the country is gold dollar, aud
silver Is ut a discount, he has been
cheated out Of just the difference be-,
tween three dollars in goll and three
dIllars in silver. But it is only because
the legislators of our country say that
dollar in silver is not worth as much 10
dollar in gold, that there ia any differ.
ence. The demand for silver ali over
the world is such that 4l2A grains Of sill
Yer should be worth one dollar Of gold,
or anything else. Therefore il ID only
because Of an agreement between our
country and the rest Of the world under
stood, by which our ccnntry agrees to not,
recognize silver as money. and to take
less than one dollar of gold for 4l2A
grains Of silver. Oh, the pitifui ignor.
ance, the hard-headed obstinacy Of those
OF our national law. makers who either
cannot or will not see and do their duty |,
For years this wrong has been put upon.
the people. Only now does the dawn
begin to break. for they are awakening
to the cries and clamours Ct the people.
Something must be done. The people
demand it aud will no longer be stood
off by promises and falsehoods.
The reconciliation Of silver would set
tie the question of reclamation Of arid
lands, by the lands being settled and
the settlers expending money in reclaim
ing and improving them. This poor, in.
hospitable wilderness would furnish
homes for thousands, now unemployed,
who would make good living and build
up an empire, where now only sagebrush
mr. A Il th.. Af
deuol, tn" i.r renc~ "f a living thing.
But alas! Al h"ugh We own the silver
Of the world, or At lea t con,,ulling
part of it, Loud u controls our market,
and our supply must be regulated by
their demand. We are in about the
same plight as the Mexican peon, 90 to
speak, for, while abuniantly able to
throw off our burden, We are too cow
ardly to do it. At least, that is the way
it looks to US.
The resources OF this district slone
would provide abundant sustenance for q
population of $50, 0O0--with silver at par
and lead at reasonable figure.
There are fair valleys here, warm
and genial climate, and small quantity
Of water, more Of which could and would
be obtained for irrigation and other pur.
poees. We have railroad partly built
to our camp, and prospect of anothsz
coming. which surely would materializs
speedily in case Of reconciliation OF sill
yer. s.',
No better proof is needed Of the power
of silver than to look back thirty year.
and see what it has done for the West
1t has built towns aud cities ard rail-
roads. improved aud cultivated lands
controlled streams and made them use
full, established factories, and built Oh
empire where ouly desert existed be
fore. But this power taken away wher
that empire was weak, has left it strug
Cling for an existence. In some parts i
has even gone back again almost t,
savagery. The towns and cities are de
populated, the railroads are not so pros
peroas, the lands are untitled. and every
where Is visible the blighting hand o
disuse and decay. ocoAsioned by demone
tization Of silver. With silver At pa
until 1880. the dependence Of this west
ern empire would not have been entirel
upon the mines, for there would hav
been an agricultural, pastoral and manu-