Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1894-01-31
Sensible Remarks on the None tary Question.
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 ae answer is as plain as the sun light at monday: Silver being de- monetized. thus destroying the greater half of the money of the world. and at the same time destroy ing one of the greatest and most important industries of the Ameri- can people.
 The world requires its regular crop of money as much as any other crop, even more, for without the money necessary to move crops they must rot m the fields. Can any one inform Us how money can be sufficient for business purposes when 65 to 70 per cent Is destroyed bv crazy legislation or otherwise9 Suppose we should bur- up or otherwise destroy 70 per cent of the wheat crop, would 1t not be very high and Scarce1 Would not about 70 per cent of the people have to get along without wheat breadf Does not the same rule apply to moneyf Gold now being the only money, is it not from 90 % 70 per cent higher than formerly compared to ever thing else, and the great mass of the people almost wholly deprived of it's use and benehtl
 Why silver should have been demonetized in 1873 is one of the anomalies of the century. We were just at that time returning to a spe- cie basis. with an enormous debt to be paid Tn specie, and that we should deprive ourselves of our natural ability to meet our obliga- tiOns by shutting out of use the greater part of our money metal is indeed anomalous. 1t would be like a man obligating himself to furnish a certain quantity of wheat or corn, and then ploughing up and destroying his crops. Every one will admit that any one who would do that was sIrely insane. If so, our government was inssane, and still remains in that same condition. We sincerely hope that the suffer ing and want of the past and pres ent will have tendency to restore our government and people to com mon sense. Any one who has read a little history knows that no nation or people were ever prosperous and happy when money was scarce. No nation ever advanced in power and dignity except when money was plentiful mean solid metal money; money of ultimate redemp- ton.
 There Is great contention and strife throughout the country at the present time over the tariff tinkering legislation which proba- blv adds somewhat to the stagna ton of business; but fix that mat ter as you will, times will grow harder and money.more scarce until silver is restored to its former hon. orable position, There are some who profess to be strong bimetal- ists. like Sherman, McCreary and Dan Voorhees,, but fight with all their might and power against a double standard or the remonetiz- ing of silver. Such people are really unworthy of notice, for they profess one thing and act the reverse. They say that We must conduct our finances in such a way as to distress the great powers, England and Germany, so they will lead and show us how to work a double standard. Suppose that We should succeed in distressing the working and producing classes of the great powers as much or more than we distress our own people, have we any assurance that it would cause those powers to change their policyi Would it be Christian like, even If we could do so2 think pot.
 They say we cannot carry bimet- alism without the aid of those great powers! Why notf We carried it fifty years without the aid of Eng land. and for a time against Eng land and Germany. Silver, part of this time. was at a premium Of three per cent above our ratio of I6lGf. Tl,>,u-sS sn evil hour we fell down before the golden calf, and France carried it alone one year at l5l toI. Every child ought to know that the moment that our government adopts the double standard at the ratio of Is to l, silver bullion will be 7.29 through ought the civilized world. All the combined powers of the earth can not budge 1t one iota from that price unless it be to raise the price. Our government, standing with out stretched hands ready to take all that comes, it is impossible for 1t to go below.
 President Cleveland, Carlisle and Sherman say we must have a cur rencv that will pass current every where. But they do not tell us how it is to be accomplished. Perhaps thev are waiting to have the great powers tell them. We do know that our S20 gold pieces will not pass current in England. When they take our S20 pieces they weigh them and allow us at so much per ounce. We are told that our great secretary of the treasury has desert ed the people and gone over the line and joined the bond-holdlng gentry. We hope he has cast his i3t in pleasant places. We have no further use for him. Let him stay Ii is not the first instance ot such yvavwarduess. Benedict Arnold and Judas Iscariot are both able exam ples. The former is said to have received a large sum of gold for his apostacv. the latter some 3O pieces of silver. That was before silver was demonetized we presume.I There is one qualification m our secretary's case, he has gone over the line and now faces us like man whilst the others are lurking around amongst as stabbing us m the back. Not long since such tel- lows were termed "copper-heads. This whole controversy may be summed up and elucidated sue cinctly as sfollows: European bond, holders are holding SS,OO00OO,OOO oi