The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1895-04-25
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MINERAL.

lHc RltiSS IS green anu JIG uiiiS
dry. The best prospect, and most
certain to be realized, that Mineral
has is very dry season.
We are possessed Of novelty here
that few towns of our size can boast
Of l. e., young ladies' bachelor
hall. Two young ladies', whose homes
were too remote from the schoolhouse
to admit of their attending school
and living at home, decided to occupy
one of the numerous empty houses
and be near the school To desig-
nate this from others it is called the
Sunny side Bachelors Hall.
The Club Saturday night afforded
us the best laughs and most fun that
we've had for some time. We can
only give the Jayhawller's financial
lecture at this time He said:
81 left here February year ago
and went to Herkimer county, New
York, and can say TO you honestly
and truly that the sentiment in favor
of the free coinage of silver is more
than three to one in the east The
people do not seem to be educated on
the silver question or on finance, but
they seem TO know and believe that
the free coinage Of silver would
double the volume of money in cir
culation, make money more plentiful
and easier to get hold of. On my
return got to Chicago in time to
/ boar NAtnfo lactttrac bA oil
question and finance in general |
learned more at those lectures than |
ever knew before about finance
! The lectures are now published
in pamphlet form and sell for 20
cents copy | would advise every
man who wishes to understand the
question to send and get copy |
will now proceed to give you some
facts that | remember and some |
noted down. He said 'On the I'd day
of April, 1892, this law was passed that
| am going to read to you takes
paper from his pockeD
Dollars or units each to be of the value
of Spanish milled dollar. as the same is
now current, and to contain three hundred
and seventy-one grains and four-sixteenth
parts of II grain of pure, or four hundred
and sixteen grains of standard silver.
This is the statute that fixed the
unit and Is the only statute on the
subject till we come to 1873. This
three hundred and seventy-one and
fourth grains of pure silver was made
the measure of value; it was the U.
S. dollar. On February ~, 1873,
this law that am going to read to
you was passed
That the gold coins OF the United States
shall be a one dollar piece which. at the
standard weight of twenty-five and eight
tenth grains, shall be the unit of value
Now we have the change. Three
hundred and seventy one and fourth
grains of pure silver is not dollar
any more Gold now is the money.
Silver, greenbacks, and all kinds of
money, must be redeemed in gold.
TO show there was no over produc-
ton of silver he said: Statistics
show that during the 18th century
there was 81 tons OF silver to one ton
Of gold from 1900 to lS4S the
average was 81 tons of silver to one
ton of gold; thence to 1890, Is tons
of silver to one ton of gold He
also told us there is in the world now,
according to the director of our mint,
SO, I2T, OILS, 500 in gold and 50, $50, :
5Il 346 in silver. The redemption
money of the world is now reduced
from 81, 547, 500, 2l5, to SO, 727, OILS, :
500, or less than one-half the origi-
nal amount; or, as the population of
the world is estimated at 400, 600, =
600, it would be two dollars and fifty
cents per capita. lis becoming more
evident every day that the business of
the world cannot he done on that
amcuiA of money. WAS in places