Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-01-01


The prices Of. all articles except
when controlled by pecnliaf eon-
dilione. are failing; Of, Ga PIT itm
othcr words tho purthaslng price
81 gold IS increasing Why should
silver BE- exempt from this rolet
The one probability If the future
witch promises Is effect the price
of silver, very considerably, IS the
fnct chat China may be Obliged to
pay some hundreds oi millions of
.d0llnrs indemnity To japan, and
the conditions Of The payment viii
certainly effect silver prices cons
sidcrnbly one way or the other.
Both nations are silver using coun
tries. aud if It be demended hy
Japan that the indemnity be paid
In silver the price Of the metal
win certainly advance. lf IL be
demanded that it be paid in gold
the price will fall. Several OF the
European nations are IN The mar
kct with gold loans. and At to the
present scramble for tho yellow
metal there should be added al
demnud from China its price viii
certainly largely advance, Which
means that commodities generally
would decline. In al probability
Che gold ring Of England, which
forced monometallism ia this conn
try, and now forces us to retain It.
will be strong enough to force
Japan to demand gold.
AN this kind Of thing is pessi-
mistic we well know. and furnishes
nothing pleasant to read or con-
template. But is it not better TO
seq and know the truth rather than
to be nisled by rosy dreams?-
Mining Industry and Tradesman.
While we, as a practical, read
lug and thinking people, are
forced to admit much Of the truth
fulness d the above, yet re.
should not despair, Beceose we
are today sitting n tho gloom Of
deferred hope, VIC should not be
cast down. Because those men in
: congress whom we elected to rep
PRESENT us as a united people lave
: chosen to serve the golden gods,
| and thus proven @recreant to the
sacred trust imposed upon them,
we should not falter. Under our
free election laws and with each
individual a sovereign in himself
, at the ballot box, we have limit
I less powers. The conditions which
+ prevail in this country today are
l largely the work Of our own hands.
+, largely the result Of our own in
Q discretion. Under the reflection
and proud boast that ours IA the
D greatest and the best governed
7 country under the shining sun, We
: have grown careless. We have
sowed to wind and are now reapins
the whirlwind. But we have no
forfeited our opportunities. CIV
o cry cloud has a silver lining"
, why not this one? We can cure
this evil in the same manner il
which we created it. We T re
IS spousible for voting into powe.
IS year after year, the republican
d party, and we can now see the fol
~ of it. We are too tickle. Ate
o having elected q democratic pres
D ident, we we're so anxious to undI
he the misdeeds of the republican
. party, that We could not await pa
tiently the good results whicI
At would surely follow. We wante.
:, free trade, free silver, statehood
:, (for New Mexico and Arizona.
a and we wanted them at once. w
al arked the democratic party to d
At those things which it had not th
~ power to do, and because it faile
to give us speedy relief, we acte
Ut like q spoiled child and rebuked
Or at the last election. We beliey
pc that the free coinage Of silver
. the only practical solution of th
er present financial muddl e, and ey
though we have been temperate
bsfied ia our wishes, let as sti
hope.
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