Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-05-29

conclude they are as we fancy OF ourselves,
or have been taught by others to imagine.
LOCKE
It has been the custom Of some
members Of the human family for
thousands of years to 90 up into the
mountains and dig gold and silver,
take the shining ore to the mlnts and
have the government stamp put upon
it.
No one ever thought until recently
that it was wrong to mine either
metal and have it coined into money,
but not long ago the principal own
ers of gold in the world received
new light on the subject (not from
above), to the effect that the deliver
for silver is one of the wickedest OBJ
iects in nature, and that therefore
his ancient calling must come to an
end, and ne be cast adrift for some
other field of labor.
At the ssme time it is thought
quite a proper thing for the gold
hunter to pursue his avOcatiOn at
the top of his bent, to dig out all the
gold ore possible, and to have the
government coin it into money. 1t
is even found necessary to help along
the quest for gold by one Of the civ
ilized CD nations of Europe, to carry
the sword into Africa and seize the
native fields of gold also to bulldoze
the feeble American republic of Ven
ezuela into Welding up that part Of
her territory which containg the vel
low ore. And so.all over the globe,
the pick and shovel Of the gold dig
ger are busy. while the silver miner
has lost his occupation and been sent
adrift. The gold hunter is a most
henefieent person, but the man who
delves for silver sinner whose lamp
of salvation has quite gone out
We have lying on the desk before
us one of those bound end gagged
metropolitan newspapers, published
on the Sabbath day, that are work
ing so hard to replace in this coun-
try the monetary system established
bv Jefferson ana the fathers, the be-
nign principles of which have come
down from antiquity, for wresched
modern British continuance, that no.
body here asked for now wanted and
on a page of this fettered sheet, not
given over to base ball news, records
of prize fights and horse races, obit-
uaries upon the silver craze, lists oil
sheritf's sales and failing merchants,
details of the latest horrible murder,
and the confession of the murderer,
whose life-size portrait is given, par
ticulars ofsocial scandals, resolutions
Of Chambers of Commerce and stock
gambling exchanges on the currency
question, annual paid for reports of
giant monopolies, quack medical adj
vertisements with likenesses of the
rescued, heroic size, list of Ameri-
cans who have taken passage on Brit
ish vessels to spend the summer in
Europe, and for perfect symmetry
throughout this Journalistic mon
strosity, fiippant, arrogant, unreason.
ing, and brutal assaults on the edi-
torial page upon faithful public ser
wants who have not bowed the knee
to Baal we read of various plausible
methods for milking the golden COW.
We cannot advise our readers to en-
term, but they will be interested in
knowing just what great benefit these
virtuous seuls yearn TO confer upon
the general public.
One advertisement reads "Sl 900
in sixty days from 500 invested
now; it may sound big, but much lar
GER amounts have been made in as
many hours"
Another reads Fortunes in gold
have been made on small invest
ments in Cripple Greek Mines. The
history, wonderful riches and oppor
tunities for wealth making of these
gold fields described in our book,
sent on receipt of ten cents. Ad-
dress. -."
Another: "Cripple Greek Stocks;
we have carefully investigated and
now especially recommend as safe
etc.
Another. "We are the official bro
lers for the stock of the Big Bo-
hanza Gold Mining Co, we handle |
no wild cat schemes" And so on
nd infinitum.
The financial editor says Local
interest in mining stocks is look
ing up, mainly because of the large
mount ofmoney invested in Cripple
Creek properties With easier money
rates, Increased activity is expected
n these shares at the Exchange"
Hundreds of companies have been
ormed for stock selling purposes,
md the speculative world is agog