Mohave County miner., 1895-07-20
4 SilUer Standard Countru.

~ '' see"'ou oy 'ho opponente Oi un. restricted silver coinage that if this coun. try were to adopt 1t, without other gold monometallic countries also adopting if we would at once go to A silver basis, or have silver standard. The Industry has before this given the reasons to doubt the accuracy oi these predictions, but for the sake of rhe argument we can all admit that the adoption of unrest,ict. ed silver coinage would make this A sil. yer standard country. We say, if we must have only one kind of metallic money in circulation, all the best inter. ests of the great mass oi people demand that the metal shall be silver. Oar man. ufscturing, agricultural and com mercial interests all would be the g.iner by adopting silver standard, and, ss we see It, continuance of the present gold monomstalIic system must lead 10 fur. ther injury to every class and final iuin to meet.
 Oa our southern border we have Mex. leo AS neighbor, which has A silver standard, and we can there see the di. rect result and benefit of it. No country on earth is more prosperous than Mex. ico, and none Is now so attractive ,o the manufacturer, business man, farmer or fortune seeker. It Is country where there has been no decline in prices, where wages have advanced, and where every department of business life is en- toying remarkable prosperity. Located so near AS we are m Colorado, we see the proof in many sh pes And. too, ststis. tics prove that every silver standard country has been prospering, while all the gold monometsllc countries have been retrogrsding and suffering all kinds of financial calamities.
 Here are points in which Mexico is i'm. proving, all the imT rovemeDt being due entirely to her silver standard:
 Pirst-It has developed her msnufsc- turing industries more in the past twenty years than they had developed in the previous 300. The reason is twofoId first, sll imports being paid for m gold, and home products being paid for a, home in silver, the imported ones be. come 30 high that 1t pays very hand somely to manufacture them at home. Secondly, the silver coinage remains mostly at home and gives the country plenty of money, which always stimu. iates every form of manufacturing.
 The largest smelters m the world have been built in Mexico, by Colorado men, the bottom and actual cause being Mex. ico's silver. policy. The finest cotton mills in the world are being built there now, and the continuance of the present policy will soon make Mexico a formid. able opponent of the United States snd Europe in the markets of the world for cotton goods. Railway machine shops and smelter, which we're d half dozen years ago located on the American slde of the Rio Grande river, have been moved across to the Mexican side. and are adding to Mexican wealth at the ex pense of the United States. If We can believe the English authorities. India Japan and, U some exr ent, China, have been rapidly developing their manufsc. turing industries for the same reason. We have an illusr4tiJu of this fact si home. Denver had fine modern cotton mill, in which various kinds of goods are made. They are largely sold in China and Japan. American and European capital has lately been invested in cotton mills in Japan, and the proprietor: give an assurance that in A very short time they will turn the tables and be able to sell Japan. made cotton goods in Denver The reason is thls: fl cotton goods can be made for five cents ya ard in a silver country, they can be sold in gold coun tries for say four cents per yard in gold, which is equivalent to eight cents in sill yer, thus giving sixty per cent profit. No gold country can approach such thing as this. And what is true stout cotton goods is true about iron, steel and all other kinds of manufactures Why man. ufacturers in the United States should he blind to their opportunity in thIs direc tion, and by an adhesion to gold mono metsllism kill their own business and build up a rivals, is hard to understand. Certainly in England it is better under.