The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1895-07-05

io,nslations Of structures 800 fest high Il
ynssi raid 20 destroy the elevated railroad
monopoly. The smaller towns arc Leing
wired together and united by wire still
closer than by rail with the greater towns,
and the tendency that will he first marked
and studied I'm this enormous evolution Is
that of making the population more homo
geneous The city and country are to be-
come SO intermingled az to be indistin-
guishabe The trolley lessons the cost In
time and money of transportation, gives
the workingman more room-that Is, in
creases the distance he can afford to have
his home away from his shop-takes him
out of the tenement house and finds him a
chance to keep n cow and to till garden
and rejoice i'm few fruit trees. All this
Is not quite done, but IL Is surely under
way. Inc trolley outspreads cities, and
we shall travel as well as write by wire
over the length and breadth of the land.
This estimate does not imply that the adj
ministration of the trolley has not had
most serious faults. Give the gravest con-
sideration TO all objections To one of the
most marvellous modern improvements.
and the trolley remains the friend of the
poor man. 1t gives land 10 the landless,
because II permits the workingman To ride
farther and pay less fare than on other
conveyances. He can go into the country
TO sleep and eat, and his family will have
more health and hope and happiness. This
is not the road To ruin, but the path of
progress, peace and plenty. 1t is not on
this line that the precipice and the bloody
abyss OF revolution await us. The gulf of
despair must be sought in the territorial
possessions of some other monopoly. The
next thing the transmits con OF power by
wire Will allow the locatlon of manufac-
tories in places heretofore inaccessible, and
there will be n broader spread of land
value, and the sanitary conditions and
moral surroundings of the people who earn
their living in the shops will be extraor-
dinarlly enhanced Out of the improved
situations the force that traverses the
wires creates will emanate untold inau-
encos, all advantageous not driving to an
archism, but establishing conservative re-
serves, strengthening the cause of good
government, because manifesting In the
general welfare that the rights of the peo-
pie are not immaterial and assert them
selves In incessant victories of peace, and
that order and prosperity, patriotism and
justice, truth and thrift, the hand and
brain and heart and pocket are altogether
for human progress, that the modern i'm
provements, the spectral monopolies, the
corporate enterprises, the capitalist combi-
nations work for and not against the
workingman, whose position overruling
all errors improves with the procession of
the seasons and is advanced and elevated
with the passing years.
The Money Question.
The bitterest of the dissatisfaction and
the most serious of the illusions of millions
of the people, who have INDUCED imagina-
ton in the creation of phantoms of OPP
preston and conjured up fantastic theo-
ries of impossible tyranny, concerns "mon-
ey" and particularly the standards of
money. The Importance of the standard
of money regards the obligations that are
undertaken. If we were all out of debt,
we could make choice of the material of
the new standard without prejudice, and
it might he gold, silver, copper or iron,
without harming any one. But we are
not about 10 take IA new departure and
must consider the situation as 1t stands.
Many citizons believe that silver is the
true and honest and gold a false and dis
honest measure of values; that there have
been enormous losses To mankind in the
depreciation of silver and the alleged APP
probation of gold. Trey say, measured
by cotton and by wheat, silver is the fair
standard. a comparison of wages with
gold will, however, show that gold has
appreciated but slightly, if at all.
During the 33 years the gold standard
has been, as Webster said of our flag
full, high advanced" There have been
two sides to the gold and silver questions
There are gold and there are silver mono
metallists As the world has been plowed
and sown and narrowed and reaped the
fair for all standard is bimetallic. We pass
from that proposition hurriedly, for it is
debatable. 1t has been held that gold was
not subject to fluctuations, but that is IA
mistake. Silver has been overproduced
and il has been necessary To limit its coin
age To preserve the parity of the two met
ais Let that go also as touching and
clinging TO controversy. The upholdcrs of
the gold standard have cried continually
that gold alone was money, and they have
not told the truth, but they have turned
the tide of fortune against themselves.
The rush of nation after nation for gold,
the increasing demand ut all the money
centers for that metal, as ii it was hoav
ems own best gift, has caused the whole
earth to be searched for the precious vel
low metal, and the drills have found it in
the deserts and the mountains, and cheap
transportation added to modern machines
hastens Ii into circulation. TAcre Is the
quartz mill and the improved chemistry
that grinds the rocks and collects the par
ticles. Gold mining has become as certain
as coal mining There was more gold
found in 1893 than ever before. The out
put was increased in 1894, and 1t will this
year far surpass all records.
From all quarters of the globe comes the
news of gold finds. The mines of Russia
once second only to our own, show aug
mented returns, the same story comes from
California, from British Columbia, from
Alaska, from British Guiana and from
Terra del Fuego, from Mexico and Peru,
the old marvellous mines yielding anew
to modern science, skill and mechanical
facility; above all from South Africa,
where there is n supply, in touch of the
drill If not in sight, that will unquestion-
ably amount to billions, and i'm Colorado it
appears that, deeper than the silver mines,
are gold mines that promise to outstrip
not only the present, but the past of Cali
fornia and to compete with the unparal-
leled stratifed mines of South Africa and
perhaps maintain for the United states
pre-emincnce in yield of the precious met
al, though the extraordinary competition