Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-07-13
RIDICULOUS LOGIC.

1t matters littIe, INDEED it does NOT
matter at all, if NJ BrSan, ikt@ Dem
ocrat ic candi*ate ~ President, is
being paid twen,y 1loH7a"t! dollars a
year and traveil.g ~eXi~n>ee frr
preaching the doctrine Of fire. silver
throughout the United States. He is
a poor man and conld i'll afford to de-
vote his time exclusively to this task
without compensation. IT the silver
mine owners Of America, and those
individuals who are in agreement
with them, choose to set aside q large
retaining fee and employ this speaker
to travel from State to State advocat-
ing a financial doctrine that will
bring benefits to them, it at least ar
CUES strongly for the earnestness Ct
his employers. and does not Of itself
cast shadows Of doubt on either his
patriotism or his eaTnestneSs '-S. +.
Wave.
The above paragraph appears in the
s. F Wave, a society newspaper de-
voted to the chronicaling OF the
movements OF the paryeDue social set
of the metropolis OF California, a State
thai is now languishiDg because OF
the decadance Of silver mining in Ne
vada.
II the publishers Of that journal
had an ounce Of brains they would
realize that the revival OF silver min
ing meant a great deal to them and
would put two dollars into their
pockets where gold mining only puts
one.
If the Comstock were booming az it
used to, the s. F. Wave would u
making money by the barrel. One
does not zee the expensive srciety
functions in San Francisco as that
were all the rage in the good cid DAYS
when everv deal in Opbir and Crown
Poiut was followed by a dozen or
twenty society events that made
champaign as common az Spring
Valley water. Only a few people in
San Francisco o can afford to give
their friends an entertainment with
out nearly starving tbs mselves &c
death flor the next SIX months. Many
do it to keep up appearances but when
they do, the cold man" groans and
bleeds inwardly and when people Of
the middle class give a few blow outs
to be in the swim. the till Of some
bank has to suffer and false entrys ir
the books tell the tale a few month:
later on of the eXtra-agance. This i.
California under the gold STANDARD
advocated by the Wave, the 10 ,ria
that tells when the society bads take
bath or Miss Singer Of Mob Hill
has three people to an Afternoon tea
In the old days n society ~iourna
was not obliged to include every Ton
Dick and Harry in its list, but COW
In order to keep alive. a 20 ETY. pape
has to rake the south OF Market par
Of the town for subscribers an
Butcher Town and Tar Flat must b
occasionally mentioned along wit
Mob Hill, or the papers circulatio
department feels the protest.
These comparisons are made be
cause the S. F. Wave seems only adj
to discuss the silver question from tn
st md point that the reconciliation
silver will help the owners Of silve
mines. As we'll might an offor med
to laise a famin fund to help 5 star
ing community, be opposed on tt
grounds that it was a scheme to el
able Touring mills to dispose Of the
flour. 1t is q money question, not
metal question. There is II none
famin in the country az it must
met with more money. It makes
difference whether it is silver or som
thing else. Gold will not appease tt
hunger for mouey as there is l.
enough of it.