The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-10-28
/. o. NEWELL g. SON wEsrMNsTER AND EDDY ST.
The Impoverished Silver States.

The inhabitants of the Pacific states
Of America Tin which term Mr.. Mul.
hall, in his concluding article on "The
Progress of the United States" in The
North American Review, includes Colo
RADIO, Utah, Montana, Idaho and Wyo-
ming as well as California, Nevada.
Oregon and Washington) are by far the
rapidest accumulators of wealth in the
world.
In the 90 years preceding the last
census they laid up four times as much
treasure on earth as did Americans gen.
orally, their annual increase of riches
per capita being $l56, as against $50
for the whole Union. Their farms yield
more than twice as much grain as the
average American farm--30 tons TO the
farmland, as against 90 in the prairie,
z in the southern, in the eastern and
IA II all the states They have nine
folded their total wealth in 20 years,
II of those years elapsing since the
crime" (which they invented and la
ment) "of 1e13." They were worth
s727, ,000, 900 in 1870 apd S6.sll, ,00o,-
900 in 1890 Since that year. as before
that year, they have enjoyed annually
the advantage shared by none OF their
fellow Americans Of taking 55 tons of
one precious metal (gold) and 1900 tons
of tho other precious metal tsilver) out
of the ground This yearly product.
ing to this authoritative statistician,
1.-The value Of precious metals that any
country has yet produced in the history
of mankind.
But this wealth is a mere additional
godsend, a wind4all, to people enriched
already in the ordinary industries of
their country Their precious metal
output is littlt over a third Of their
agricultural product OF $294, 600, 600 a
year 1t is not very much more than a
fourth of their manufacturing output
of $360,000, 900 year, which quad
rupled in the 90 years between 1870
and lS90
These are the "whole states" whom
a temperate and discreet "bimetallist"
English authority on American affairs
Mr.. Moreton Frewen, saw ''goaded in
to fury" by the lash of poverty which
the gold standard laid on their ragged
backs These are the people to whom
in l5 years we, the rest of the country,
the $50 average wealth people, the Ia
ton average grain people, paid $780,
900, 900 for silver worth $252. 900, 900
These are the states which, one and all
(save California and Oregon), threatened
armed revolution because their sister
states refused to take the whole of one
Of their less important products at two
prices and told them to go TO the regu-
lar market with their silver as we'll as
their lumber and their grain. These are
the people who have made national
issue and are now making an interna-
tional wrangle of the question, not as
to whether this single one of their in
dustries should be suppressed, or even
suspended, but as to whether they
should receive profit Of l0c or 400
per cent on its product.
1t is with no feeling of anger or
scarcely of irritation that tho rest Of Us
we $50 Americans-contempla the
collected proof of tho thoroughness with
which we have been "dono" by these
Sl56 Americans, who have been crying
all the time that we were eating them
up with tho interest on gold clause
mortgages Nay, il is with moro than
national, it is with family, pride,
pride which n thrifty Yankee father
feels in being bested in a horse trade by
his offspring, that wo contemplate this
magnificent record Of bamboozlement
And when we realize the further fact
that these brethren Of ours by plying
threats of our repudiation of our foreign
debts. have cozened the old lady Of
Threadncedle street into an offer to take
some $35, 900, 600 of their wares of
their hands, we fall prostrate in rever-
ence before their argent shrine of St
Bunko. o.--New York Press