The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-09-13
FREE SILVER IN MEXICO.
An Intelligent business Man Disproses
the Gold Bugs Misstatements.

a IOllOW1ng.
Major Jules A. Randle, a resident Of
Monterey, Mexico, but a citizen Of the
United States, has written an interest,"
ing and timely letter to J. w. Gaines,
Esq, of Nashville. Mr.. Randle is an
o~ld-fashioned Democrat, a man of pro-
nounced views and marked intelligence,
and thoroughly equipped to give a faith
full, interesting, ard instructive history
of the effect of free coinage of silver in
Mexico.
The letter is as follows:
J. w. Gaines, Esq, Nashville:
You desire to know the effect of Do,
coinage of silver in Mexico. ~
been doing business in Mexico Ace
1866, and since 1880 have lived I'M Hex
leo, consequently, have had a good OPP
portunity to know the country and its
conditions. I operated, bought and
sold property there from 1866 up to
date. | have known the eagle dollar of
MexlcoI mean the present silver dol
lar-when it sold in New York at $1.06
to $l.l2 in American gold, when a gold
dollar vas worth $1.32 to $1.34 in green
backs. Then Mexico was not in a -four
lshlng condition. A very few men con-
trolled the finances and the country
was IN constant revolution. The poor
and middle classes had but few rights
or privileges, and hence, naturally arose
~dessenti0ns. Today we have q liberal.
progressive government, paying it's
debts, and it's affairs managed for the
benefit of Mexico and her people. In
the past fifteen years we have built
thousands of miles OF railroads, and
with but few exceptions, none Of them
have been in the hands of the receiver,
and no reason on Gods earth for one of
these, save from a sharp financiering
standpoint often adopted by American
Spectators. The Mexican government
has given large subsidies, and notwith-
standing the Lombard and Wall street
brokers, who seem to run the great
American government, they have sig
nally failed to cripple and demoralize
Mexico.
Yes, sir; we have free and unlimited
coinage of silver, and it buys every
thing we want in Mexico, without in
quiring what London and it's sister
city, New York, are paying for silver.
Mexico is prosperous under free COIN
on money or any merchandise, no
trusts or syndicates controlling the
people or the government. The panic
of 1893 in the United States was I'M
known in Mexico except through Amer
lean visitors. Rents, wages, products
been affected by American panics, or
by the low price of silver. There is not
a vacant house in my city (Montereyl.
nor have we had a business failure for
years. Monterey has 10000 population.
/ have lived in the city of Monterey,
state of Nueva de Leon, and since
1880 we have doubled our population
and increased our business a thou
sandfold. High tariff in the United
States and the spectators in silver,
backed by the American government,
have made Monterey in particular
and Mexico, generally, the most pros
porous section Of the North American
continent. The Window ruling on
the lead ores that were flowing into the
United States and right afterWard the
Mckinley bill made Monterey one of
the grandest smelling towns on thu
globe.
That ruling and tariff caused a large
portion Of the Mexican trade to go to
Europe and added millions Of money to
the people who seem to manipulate
Washington. Our country and it's
customs and habits seem to me to ba
catering to England and adopting or
trying to ape English manners and
customs. The wealth of the United
States is rapidly falling into the hands
of a favored few, and If this thing
goes on for Is years more lords and
dukes will be as plentiful as they are
now in Europe.
I am an American and have retained
my citizenship and have always felt
proud to say that I I'm an American,
but now I see my country drifting II
such an aristocratic government ,eaa-
trolled by trusts, and that mo1sy con-
trolled largely by foreignersJ1that I
tremble for the futu11s Thf4all gold
money proposed by M pnd is
humbuggery. If all the sif
yer of the world were put IN circula-
ton you would injure about one thou
sand men and benefit millions. Being
. Democrat l am for the great ma
jority.