Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1894-09-14
REPLY OF JOHN BENNETT,
OF KINGSTON, TO INQUIR-
les FROM THE TARIFF
COMMITTEE.
[Concluded ]

CONCLUDED
Evidently there is a depression
in trade. Among others visiting
the money centers, is a silver miner.
He is simply shown the "notice"
on the door which reads: "No ped
lefs, book agents, or cranks allowed
in here. No mines bought or sold.
Beggers are liable to be arrested,
etc."
1t looks gloomy for silver, but
the stone which the builders re-
jected may yet become the head of
the corner.
Place silver with gold before the
law and the mint, and the silver
producer needs no money to pay
cash for the labor which he en-
ploys, his product is money ITSELF
and always has been since civiliza-
tion began. wide, any treatise on
money or political economy.)
The silver producer will employ
10000 people, if not directly, he
will at least indirectly, and great
many more. He has not been buy
ing any fine clothes recently, or
good things to eat. 1t takes no
Adam Smith, or Matthew Marshall,
or Senator Stewart to tell you how
he, as well as every one who lives
around his camp, would make the
money fly.
The fruit -raisers and gardeners
in the vicinity of his silver plant
could sell all their produce, and
the Kansas and Missouri farmer
could feel the drain upon their sur
plus corn and wheat; and they
would all buy new clothes.
The miner would have new and
imported machinery and tools, and
thousands would go to work to
make them, aye millions would be
manufacturing clothes, tools and
luxuries. for him as we'll as for
those whom he had set to work,
and twelve months would not roll
around until there would not be an
idle man in any city who was will
ling to work. And Secretary Car
Isle could call in his bonds.
This Government must have a
"wbeel in It's head" Allow nae to
again call to mind the time when
you and [ were boys together, or
our fathers were. The silver coin
in circulation was mostly foreign
then. The United States was not
producing silver much. Since then
we have become a great silver pro,
ducing nation, the greatest in the
world, Now we turn right around
and by antisiiyer legislation destroy
the industry.
What kind of a fnancier would
YOU call a man who would do tha'
in his business-destroy one of hii
greatest industries. an industry
from which he could derive cast
direct, no tariff needed to protec
it, whatever may be needed in othel
industries.
| We think that we express III
views of nine-tenths of the citizens
of this immediate section in "add
ing" as you suggest, "such gener
al or special matter as you may b
possessed of, and which in you
judgment will be of value to th
committee.
We also take advantage of the ex
pressed desire in your circular let
ters that replies "shall give tul
expression of views and not be re
strieted to merely answering th
questions cstegorically," and vii
. be confined at the same time t
what sffects our specific business.
Your effort to get at the -rea
t cause Of our financial depression
we fully appreciate, and are not Q
that small percentage of citizen
who denounce your work as part
san and claptrap, and we belIeV
= that your circular letters are nc
thrown out for the benefit OF
certain class or classes. WEI
this the case we would like to haT