San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1893-07-27
SCENES IN WONDERLAND.

The Fail of the Bastile-
Short Stops--Person-
al Mention, Etc.
LA CONCORDIA, MONTEREY,
July q, 1898.
To the San Antonio LIGHT.
The drop on silver is seriously
felt throughout the border states.
Many new enterprises that have
lately been inaugurated will be
abandoned for the present, or until
the price of silver is restored.
Many of the mines are closing
down and will remain closed for
some time, while others are re-
ducing their forces. In the CatOrce
mining district, in the state OF San
Luis Potosi, all the mines have
been shut down and over 5000 men
are thrown out of employment.
THE BOARDS OF TRADE WILL MEET.
There is a movement on foot
among the merchants and import
ers of Mexico to call meeting of
the boards of trade to meet at the
capitols of the states for the pur-
pose of providing ways and means
to prevent the depreciation and de-
struction of the silver and to
protect the mining industries of
the country.
In order to get their views your
correspondent interviewed a num-
Der of the Monterey merchants as
to what action they would take. A
majority of them are in favor of
shutting down on all foreign
trade. That is that they
will not purchase another dollars
worth of goods, nor import another
article from the United States or
Europe, until they put their silver
dollars on par with the Ameri-
can dollars. AS the Mexican dol
lar contains more silver than the
American dollar, they think it
should have the same perchasing
power as the American silver dol
lar. But it has not, it takes one
dollar, half, ten and a five cent
piece to buy an American silver
dollar.
If the merchants and manufacture
ers of the United States will not pro-
tect them and allow them the same
value for the Mexican silver dollar
that they do for the American sill
yer dollar, they will not purchase
another dollars worth of goods
from them. If they will not do so
then they propose to erect their
own factories and manufacture
their own goods. Many of them
think that this conspiracy against
silver has been concOcted in Eu-
rope, and they propose to cut her
off entirely. They can get along
without their goods.
The merchants, miners and cap
italists of Monterey are thoroughly
aroused on account of the depreci-
alton of silver. They propose to
take a bold stand on the silver
question.
SENATOR STEWART IN MONTERREY.
On Friday morning Sen. w. c.
Stewart, of Nevada, arrived from
the City of Mexico, and spent Fri
day and Saturday in the city.
Your correspondent called on him
for the purpose of getting his views
on Mexico and the silver question.
He spoke very highly of the coun-
try and the treatment that he re-
ceived from her citizens since he
has been in the country. He re-
marked that Mexico has a great
future before her; her resources
are unlimited, and when developed
she will be the richest country in
the world.
He informed us that he is inter-
ested in the silver mines of "San
Miguel del Mezquital," which are
situated in the state of Zacatecas.
These mines produce high grade
silver and gold.
When we questioned him about
the silver question, that is now
agitated in the western states, he
didn't have word to say. He was
as dumb as an oyster. We could
not get word out of him on the
silver question.
While here, he made a trip to
the Topo Chico hot springs, and
took a bath. After he returned,
he informed us that it was
the best bath that he ever
enjoyed. He visited all the hot
and cold spring in the United