The morning call., 1894-02-16

dis rict, but the gradual decline in silver
caused the owners TO reduce the number OF
town.
There are twenty mining camps within
twenty miles OF Harley thai now almost
uesefted, ana except few high-erade mines
the entlre section is one vast graveyard or
thrift and Industry
With the decline OF the mining has come loss
for the farmers, who had brought thousands Of
acres INTO cultivation, ana of the stockraiSers
and the people who arr living on tn ragged
edge OF DESPAIR In this lnLermountaln region
1891; in 1898 the product OF the mines was
only S350o,0o0
do not attribute all the present misfortunes
TO Ver. l believe that raiSins, wine and oil,
the product OF farm and dairy one time well
paid American industries, are threatened with
the product OF the peon labor of the world. but
do know that since 1878 everything has fallen
except gold. In 1878 silver was 81 33 an
ounce. wheat 81 AZ and cotton 10 cents
pound; in 1894 silver was 60 cents, wheat 60
cents ana cotton cents. In 1872 the mines OF
gold and silver were pouring Millions of wealth
into the nation, both gold ana silver being
equally used as money OF the naliUn.
There have been Presidents OF this great
naJIon away bacs In 1860 and farther that be-
lieved that he mountains OF the West were the
grand storehouses filled with silver, upon which
The whole people might feed and grow wealthy
and strong. One declared that the everlasting
nils would pay the national debt Another
sent message to encourage the miners in their
work. The Presidential chair Is not occupied
by an Alb aham Lincoln. l hate slavery. and
of all slaveries the meanest Is hnancl slavery.
That America should kDeel 10 the financial
kings OF the old world makes the blood OF
mount aineers boil. The time will come when
the silver question Will be The theme OF the
country, as the slavery Question was for
quarter OF a century, and its solution means
the emancipation of 70,000,000 American clti-
Zens from the thralldom of the most deSpicable
bondage in the world. In the face OF all mono
metallists, declare silver the best money IN
the world. 1t Is bright. clean, not easily coun-
teIfelted, good for poor and rich, and he is
traitor 10 American prosperity who decrtes IL.
Discussion havI been opened on the
silver question Leete of Nevada argued on
the principle that all restraint Of money is
restraint of trade. His second point
was that decentralization of silver was
practically class legio alton. He said he
would be his own dictionary, and started
in by defining "A fool man who could
perceive nothing. Then he stated that
all, including the President, had been
fooled by the demonetiZatiOn of sill
YER. What was the sense of bor-
rowing money with bullion in the
treasury? The dem monetiZation of silver
by reducing the value of products re-
duced labor. which produces. to that pro-
portion of slavery. Gold has value and
power; silver has now only value. Re-
store power to silver and you can compare
it with. geld, not before. Silver was the
money of distribution of power as gold was
the money Of concentration of power.
Money was practically a self-executIng
government. The Government only could
make money. and yet it compelled us 10
get money, thus putting US in a "hole."