Mohave County miner., 1896-05-23
Bimetallism.

Bimetallists advocate a monetary sys tenn that shall employ both gold and sI. yer as the standard money of the country because there is not enough gold to meet the business operations oi the world, and for that and for no other reason do they demand the rsmonetis ition of silver. Gold itself proves every day that it is made. quate by widening trade balances, which is put another way of saying that in ratio to the inability of gold money to supply the needs of commerce are the commodI ties of commerce appreciated in their market value. Every seller of commod ties knows this to bs true by experience
 Gold mononetallists are trying yer, hard to convince the people that tb, maintenance of the parity of the two met sls, with equal purchasing and redenp ton power, would be s commercial and financial impossibility. but the people vii not be 30 convinced. The history 3f the country prior to 1873 and their own goo1 common sense tells them that the reason ing oi the gold tnndsrdites is that of tb, mooey-lender, the mortgage. broker and the bondholder. Perhaps the most deepl,
 ooted of the political tsnets of the real wsslth.mskers of this country is their un qualified belief in monetary system tha shall make gold and silver the standard of value without discrimination agains either metal.
 Since the slaughter of silver, political economists and statisticians tell us, the average depreciation in the value of those things which the great wage and farming class produce, including wages, has been s5out 45 DOT cent But land rent, dwell ing house rents, cost Of travel, street car fares, interest on money and the thousand snd one other things that are controlled by corporations, money lenders and rent y4thsrers have suffsrei no such loss; and shy have they not? The answer is found in the restricted volume of standard money which is the natural as we'll ss the intended c,nseqrence of driving the silver dollar out of its legitimate place as gold'- co ID ,nion in the country's monetary system.
 The goldites tell usthat the government has coined more silver dollars since 1873 thsn in the whole previons lifetime of the couotry, which is true. but they omit tn say tn It by the act of demonetizing silver provisions were made to make the silver dollar token dollar, redeemable in gold, thus forciug gold monometallism upon an unsuspsctin9 people. But for the fact that gold is pledged to redeem our silver dollar they would not pass for more than about 50 cents. They were boldly, un. ceremoniously and surreptitiously reduc ed 10 their bullion vaIue when the right was conferred upon them to be full dollars inst SO long as it suits the conspirators to re. deem them in gold money, but not . min. ute longer.
 In order to keep silver wholly depend. ent upon gold for recognition as money Secretary Carlisle grants the exclusive right of option to the governments cred. itors. That is to say, the creditor of the government Is given the right to designate the kind oi money he wants his claim paid In, and naturally he takes gold, because the government itself recognizes only gold as the ultimste redemption money of the coun ", thus belittling all other kinds. Now, all that is required to make both silver and gold the standard money of the nation is for the government to reserve the right to pay claims against it in which. ever metal, gold or silver, 1t may elect to pay in. This would be the governments admission that t held one kind in just as high esteem as the other and that It would not be forced to discriminate against either by any creditor. Then open the mints to both metals without discrimina. ton or favoritism. That would give the country bimetallism pure, simple and honest.-S. F. Call.