The Delta independent., 1894-07-04
How the Scales Can DO Made to rail from
tho Eycs of Eastern Men.

tho eb Oh l1ASIerh Mehs
A. S. Condon, friend, in boyhood
days, of Senator Hale, of Maine, but
now resident of Ogden, Utah, pub
fishes long letter in the senator's
home organ, the Ellsworth American,
in which he takes his former eastern
associates to task for their greed for
gold and unfriendliness to western in
terests from which are extracted the
following paragraphs:
you have loaned your money to us
at enormous rates of interest while we
were getting ready to set up house
keeping on our own account, till now,
without notice, you not only rob us of
all we have in sight, but you seek to
spread blanket mortgage over our
future and the future of our children
by claiming 43 cents on each dollar
that we earn.
'lf the silver dollar be worth at the
present time but fifty-seven cents,
what has become of the other forty
three cents? Tor but little while ago
the silver dollar was worth u hundred
cents The integrity of silver was
never questioned till recently, never
till the Shylocks of Wall street got
hold of it and begun to pool issues
with London, and to talk cockney and
wear Lon'on clothes New York and
Boston, with the help of London, have
stolen forty-three cents out of every sill
yer dollar, and that is all there is to it.
Silver is the poor mans money be-
cause it best meets his requirements,
and because of its bulk the rich
man cannot hoard it. The wage
Garner gets his pay in small sums
of silver and dispenses it for his
daily wants. For his daily require
ments the rich man wants the earth.
If silver were coined at the mints free,
as gold is, and sent on its mission to
the markets of the world as untram-
meled as gold, do you think this crisis
OF hard times would be on us to-day?
Would the masses be crying for bread
while the bankers are crying for gold?
If silver had been more plentiful, small
depositors would have saved many u
weak institution that this senseless
panic has swept away.
'Thc west suffers most because the
west produces nearly all the gold and
silver used in the United States, and
eastern bankers have drained the gold
away from us and placed an embargo
on our silver. A few years ago you
had T. mining craze of some sort down
in Maine. | do not remember what
you were digging for-rnaybe brnss,
but no matter; you had an embryo min
ing boom. Suppose it had been copper?
Tunnels would have been driitcd at
great cost and forgcs lighted, and
hoisting works crectcd Maine would
have been filled with laboring men,
caDitali3ts and trarnps.
"Now suppose that in the very height
of your prosperity, when money was
plentiful and business was gilt-cdged,
the people OF the west had prevailed on
the government ut Washington to dis
courage the uses OF copper in the navy
yards, or discrcdit it altogether: would
not the fires of your furnaces have been
exti1guiGhcd, your shafts and tunnels
hllcd with water! And with what APP
prehcnsion would you have looked
upon the hungry unemployed turned
loose on the charity of the public!
81 do not believe we would tap our
forcheGtls with the finger and call you
hair-braincd, nor would we laugh at
your calamity" 49, S~-----.