Sierra County advocate. [volume] (Kingston, N.M.) 1884-1960, 1896-09-04
MR. ROBIN EXPLAINS.

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| ing recently attended the Terrific
rial Convention of National Dem
ocrats, or Sound Money Demo.
crats, and having taken part there
in as representing those OF my
faith in Sierra county, 1 find tina
/ am now censured, attacked ant
misreprasented on the following
grounds:
I. is said :hs. / have admitted
! that free silver would be good
/ thing for this district and for all
mining districts, and that 10 this
time OF extreme depression ! am
deliberately working against the
interests of my fellow. citizens
either on a Quixotic idea of ma
tional welfare, or as it is darkly
hinted in treacherous bination
with Republican influence and for
what there is in it for myself.
1t is true that | have admitted
and asserted that free silver would
be good thing for the mine own
ers of this district. | have re-
peatedly and do now assert that
free coinage would send gold to a
value Of about $40 per ounce and
that | could employ miners at the
wages they are now getting, or
even at a small advance, and reap
the profit of tae change for myself
For an ounce OF gold l viii get
$40, can then we'll afford to pay
So 80 or even 81 per day and a
mine which Just makes expenses
today will be good thing with
free silver.
l arp Q part owner Ii sllyeF-
lead mine. Silver is now 66 cents
an ounce and Unjust pay $3 per
day for miners Do you think that
when | get 81 80 per ounce | sball
at once raise the miners wages to
$6 per day? Not much, Mr.. Edi-
tor | shall raise his wages only
when | am compelled to do SO aud
then only little at a time.
When / consider free coinage
fro m the mine owners standpoint
then it would be a good thing for
us, but when | look from the
standpoint of the wage Garner it
would be a bad thing. The best,
the most productive mines of this
district are owned by people and
companies in the East and in Eng.
land. If worked at profit it will
be for their benefit. Halt loaf
is better than no bread and per-
haps the miners of Sierra county
and the Rocky Mountain region
would like the half loaf system.
The free silYeg men say they be.
lieve that silver with free coinage
would so mp and eventually resume
its old position in relation to gold.
SO they believed silver would go
up when the Sherman law was
passed and their belief now is
as well ard no better founded than
then. If the working men are
for this kind of gambling,
a game where the chances are all
against them, Why let them go,
il they can stand it other people
can.
With millions, with | believe the |
maj ajority of my fellow citizens, |
take tie position that free coinage |
Of silver as advocated by the Dem
ocratic Populist combination, is !
and likely to be not only
i'm potent but disastrous. In the
crash and panic which would fol.
low the election OF Mr.. Bryan
there would 6s DO money looking 1
Tor investment in mines, and as
now We should have to depend
upon our own efforts aud resour-
,es. | may Re very singular
miner, but valuable as they are
want 10 sell my mines. Other
of course, only want to
work their properties themselves, I
md so they don't care cent about
,apitsl looking for investment in
mines. Indeed by many it Is
,alled the Money Power, hateful
hing full of oppression and tyr
.Iuy, aud abuse of it in the most
Incorporate language Ia very pop.
liar and is the choicest tool Of the
lemagogue who strives to ride into
and power on the back
# the popular chimera OF the day.
This is about all have to say
i present Mr. Editor, and thanking
'ou in advance Tor its publication
am
Respectfully. Xapys,
GFnpaR EvRRRr,r RobIa