The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-27
Especial to The Herald

Boise. Ida, May Ex-Governor Nc
Connell. today mailed to the Iowa
Non-partisan Free Coinage Silver club
of Des Moines. reply to a number Of
queries sent him. He says in part:
In reply to your query as to the av-
erage cost of production of silver in
the present silver dollar so far as is
relates TO its cost of production from
the mines of this state, 1 beg leave TO
say that an observation of thirty-f1vs
years in a gold and silver mining coun-
try has led me to believe that every
dollar of silver produced from our
mines has cost on an average in human
toll and money expended more than ths
face value of the metal
Only the Bright Side.
II also believe the same may be said
of gold. While few mines have in all
ages and in all countries proven prof.
liable, yet, in writing them up, moth
ing has been said Of the thousands os
miners who have gone forth from time
to time and suffered the hardships OF
climbing mountains, wading through
snow, often hungry, sleeping in wet
blankets and enduring all privations
which attach to mountaineer and from
tiersmen, returning bankrupt, broken
in health and spirits. We only write
the bright side of the picture.
If we as nation owe a large sum
OF money TO the citizens of other ma.
tons, it is the duty of those in charge
of our business management to provide
for the payments of those debts. If a
farmer owes his neighbor, his merchant
or his banker an obligation payable
in the near future and has provided for
the payment thereof, by planting a
field of corn. or by sowing a field OF
wheat, the area of the cheaper crop
being enough larger than that of the
dearer, to make the value of the re-
spective crops equal, what would the
neighbors of that farmer say il
he should deliberately DESTROY this
product of one of their fields.
thereby reducing by one-half his
ability to pay his debts? NV opin-
ion is they would take him before A
board of lunacy, and he would be COM
mltted TO an asylum for the insane.
Yet our lawmakers practically did
the same thing, and they are still at
large. With large debts payable in
gold or silver, they deliberately de-
stroyed the money qualities of the
white metal and by so doing reduced
by one-half our ability TO pay our OBJ
legations. The people of the state OF
Idaho, with her God-given treasure
caves of both gold and silver, con-
tend for honest money, and in that
contention demand that the money Of
final redemption in these United
States be the same as the founders Of
this government and the trainers Of
our constitution declared it should be
gold and silver-and we further de-
mand that its ratio be the same as
before it's decentralization to l.
Have Grown Aweary.
1--WE are heartily tired of the SUBJ
terfuges of those who would toady to
the bankers and aristocracy of tbs
old world; believing, as we do, that
the United States is capable of in
augurating and carrying out any f.
nancial policy we determine upon. We
own our own gold and silver mines.
cotton and wheat and corn fields.
vast deposits of iron. Our people are
industrious and ingenious. Nature
has endowed us with everything cal
culated to make a great nation Then
let US, like our revolutionary fore
fathers, declare our Americanism and
dictate the policy of others instead Of
allowing them to dictate to us"