Tombstone prospector., 1896-09-01
WRITES FROM MEXICO.
A Recent TOmbs tone Visitar
 Gives His Views.

F. J. Toussint. an Amefics:i whose home is in Wisconsin but wao spends most of his time in Mexico where he has extensive mining and business in- terests. was . recent visitor in Tomb stone. He spent about 10 days at Butte, Montana, studying new mining appliances for s.v,ng gold from placer deposits. From there he went te spo- kane and then to Cripple Greek, Col orsdo, from where he went direct to Sonora, Mexico, over the N. N. and A.
 The following letter was received lew days ago by Dr. J. M. Boyd Q Spokane from Mir. Tousssint from sonors, Mexico:
 "You wished me to tell you what l thirk of uolimited free coinage of sil. yer, and in answsr l will say that l will not say what think, but state . few facts e I know them to exist. and let you do the thinking. Before the expectation of geld our Mexican dol- lar was worth within . few cents as much a your United Ssates dollar. Now one dollar of United States money is worth i42 cents of Mexican money. On the face of it this looss like . good gold standard argument, and is often resortsd ts by gold standard men. But let me tell you what it has done for Mexico. IL has reduced the Mexican national debt four 6f.hs of its original amount. Such thing as 6 busin ess failure is almost unknown. and the country today is by long odds in better shape now than 1t ever was. And these are the reasons: Up to the time that geld appreciated Mexico bought ono-half of her necessities and lux uries of life from the United States. The other half wac procur"d from its own resources and from other coun- tries. We liked your woolen gGods, ws liked your prints, your flour, your furniture, your building materials, machinery and hardware. but we could not afford to pay l42 cents for every dollsr's worth we wanted. For example, if we sOt . hat st$3. it meant three times &l.41, and an additional duty. amounting in all to about $5.75. We had to look to another field of pro duetion. We tried the foreign couu- triss. but could not satisfy ourselves that that was the best, 70 ~e Cona- meneed resorting to Me1ico's unlim- itsd resources. and now we are produc- ing our swn wheat. rye, etc. and have put up mills to grind our own bread stuHs. We have our own sheep. and raise our wool, which we run through our own woolsn mills. We raise our own cotton. aud have cotton mills. We have our own saw mills and shin gle mills, and if, in some states we have no simbers. we buy the rough lumber in the United States and work it up into sash, doors, blinds and fur nitu.e in ou, own country, giving our pecpls employment and depriving your skilled labor of just % many days work. which means just % macy dollars.
 "That is not all nor the bsst we do. already, in many cases, turn out 8 surplus which we put on the market ir other countries, and we sell in just the same territory that you sell or used to sell ia. We can and do sell some of our products 'u the Unised States at . profit after pay ing the duty.
 "Ysu nave compelled Mexico to re- sort ts its own resources. It has done Sd, and sec the result of these few years. Continue your gold standard tor another ten years and we will sstonish you.
 You may ask hsw it can be stepped! Free silver will stop it. by making the Mexican money worth as much in