The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1893-08-31

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The mines in the United State
produce in year 100000 ounce
of Gold and 60,0O0,000 ounces o
silver. Forty times as much siive
is produced as gold. In 1856 tn
gold mined was l,700.00o; the sive
mined was 20,0O0,0O0. The rati,
Of silver mined to goi,i has been
steadily increasing; the price Of silver
has been steadily falling. The bull
ion value OF silver dollar was 100
cents in 1883, the year of its demon
citation. Now it is about 66 cents
Bland Of Missouri the silver cham
pion, is a native OF Kentucky He
went to California in 1865. when %
years of age, and afterwards located
in Virginia City; New. He became a
miner, and was County Treasurer OF
Carson county when Nevada became
a State in October, 1864. The day
before the bill admitting the State
passed Congress the battle Of Bermu-
da Hundred was fought. In 1863
Mr.. Bland returned to Missouri In
1872 he was elected to Congress by
100 majority. In 1878 lie carried
through the bill remonetiziu= The
coinage Of silver dollars. lie has
been a member of Congress since
1872, and has long been Chairman
of the Committee of Coinage,
Weights and Measures.
Adoniram +. Warner, temporary
Chairman, Of the recent Chicago Sill
yer Convention. and otIicial mead CT
the party in the United States. , an
Ohio man, as might be supposed
from his prominence: that is lie rep
resented the Marietta district Of
Ohio in several CONGRESSES, ana was
all advocate Of free and easy curr"n-
cy, paper Or silver, it didn't much
matter which. He was born in Eric
county, New York, taught school in
Pennsylvania, went to the war as {,
Captain in 1861, was wounded at
Autietani AM settled &: NAio after
the close II t.. rnstii;!ic,. IL !hg
fnrty c;::i':l Congress he .al ,tet
rows in iront OF Frank Had. Ia,
tariff reiorm"r, who was able 10 keep
his eye OF. him without, however,
being able to enlist him actively in
the free trade crusade, OF which Mir
HurI was a champion.
The Republican National Con
vention at Minneapolis declared that
tho people favored bimctaii~n, and
that the Republican party demanded
"thc use Of both gold and silver as
standard money" Tho Democrats
at their National Convention declar-
ell I'VE hold to-the use OF both
gold and silver as he standard
money Of the country, and to the
coinage of both gold and silver,
without discriminating against either
of the two metals. The Peoples
Party, in convention at Omaha, de-
clared in favor Of "free and unlimited
coinage OF silver and gold at q
ratio Of IL to |, and for national
currency, sale: sound, and flexible
issued by the general Government
only, a full legal tep'!e- ior al ''ebis
The Proh;'it;oHists III Their! National
Convention at Cincinnati. ignored
the silver question, and the social
lists held NO convention, tiI3u5il they
ran candidates for President aH,! ion
Woe President.