Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1894-01-31

The Denver sun of the % inst.
reports the hosting in a single day
from the Littiy johnny mine of
Leadville of Sl2S, 900 in gold. The
best record ever made before was the
hosting of S11S,0OO in silver from
the Robert Z. Leee mine, also Of
Leadvilie The expenses Of the mine
on that day were probably 5000.
We wish to call the attention of the
Chicago Tribune, in particular, and
good many other papers in the East
to the fact that this SIPS, 600 In gold
was produced at cost of $500. We
know, considering how those jOurn-
ais have dealt with the silver qdes-
ton, that they VIII instantly insist
that gold shall be demonetized. If
gold can be produced at a little more
than SO cents an ounce, we are salts
fed that these papers, and especially
the Chicago Tribune, will rush to the
defense of the people, and see to it
that they are not any longer robbed
by accepting gold at the rate of $50
an ounce. We heard good deal
about the lightweight dollar last
summer-the sixty-cent dollar. We
saw in several papers, and especially
the Chicago Tribune, where, in Ger
tain places, silver was being mined at
80 cents an ounce. Now, if it was
wicked TO pass silver which cost so
cents an ounce for 81. 1929, what can |
we think of Government or of a |
people which tries to pass an ounce |
of gold, which cost only s. cents, for
$50? This is matter which goes
right to the integrity of the subject,
and we insist that the papers, being
honest, of course, who raved all last
summer over the fact that as silver
could be produced at half its COM
mercial value, and at about one
fourth its coin value; it ought not to
be used as precious metal: 1t ought
not to be considered as money, and
more than that, those men who
thought it ought to be recognized as
real money, nut be inherently and
essentially dishonest, they surely
must protest against this gold swim
die, for we have have a sample be
fore us of how GAO ounces of gold
were raised on certain day from a
certain mine, at an expense of only
SO centsan ounce, and how il was
palmed off on the Government, on
the people, at the rate of $50 an
ounce, and hence that such a tran
saction lacks all the elements of that
ancient commercial integrity and
honor for which our people orig
inal'y were noted.
We trust that the first movement
If the Chicago Tribune will be 70
lave gold demonetized; that the sec
md will be to explain how monu-
mental are the scoundrels in Lead
lille who insist upon receiving $40
Der ounce for their gold, and third,
n how much danger the property of
his country is now in, because of ,
he nefarious practices of the men &
Who mine gold in the West, and who
Ire seeking to obtain $40 for some
hing that cost them less than one
bird of one dollar. OF course. it is
ii very simple, and those gentlemen
rho write sagely in the East ought
0 be notified at once of this work j
which is going on at Leadville, and
u other parts of the West, and :
light to lose no time in notifying !:
he Government that, as things are
urning out, there is no safety in US
no gold any longer as money, and
he only possible substitute which
viii satisfy the people at all, viii be
hose cheap diamonds which will c
ome in when the Wilson Bill shall y
became a law, aud shall have per !
ormed It's perfect work