Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1898-01-06

fled the silver question. These people
In the west were accustomed to the
use OF metallic money. The people
OF the East were unaccustomed to the
use or metallic money.
Why metallic money hardly exist
ed for years before the war. 1t did
not exist during the war. The peo-
pie OF the East had become accustom-
ed to paper money and unaccustomed
to eith"r silver or gold, and rejected
the use of both, So that we had
paper in the East in broadest use
whereas on the Pacific Coast and in
the mountain States the feeling was
quite to the contrary. There they
are used to the coin, and do not like
the paper money. l find that 1 have
to revolutionize my own habits twice
every year in the way Of becoming
accustomed to paper and metallic
money, go West and recur to the
use of the metallic money, and 1 find
that / do not like to have twenty
dollar gold pieces and silver coins in
my pocket, and after 1 become accus-
toned to them l prefer them to paper
and then after awhile, on my return
East, | strike paper money again and
have no metallic money. and paper
money is distasteful to me, for it
seems to be the storehouse of conta-
gion OF every kIrd.
Now, this is mere matter Of habit.
Had we consulted the habits of the
West, we would have permitted the
owners of silver bullion to present it
at the mint and to receive either it's
coinage value or its market value
according to existing legislation, in
absolute coin, receiving in the one
case all and in the other only a part
the difference between the market
value and the coinage value being re-
tanned by the Government as seigni.
orage. And what would have been
the result? Probably e-fourths
or more of the bills Of the miners are
for wages. The silver coin is paid to
the men from whom they obtain their
supplies, and the merchants use it in
buying flour and grain and clothes
and other supplies.
Thus you would find the actual use
Of silver extending to the entire
Western region, where they dre ac-
customed to it, and gradually to the
Southern and Middle Western States
where also they are accustomed to it
and like it, and you wonld have
circulation of this currency in the re-
gion that now most requires it, in.
stead of having this silver acCumula-
ing in you TREASURY, where it consti-
tutes menace to the world. For
recollect that the average intellect
does not comprehend that that silver
is constructively coined and in the
hands OF the people in the. form of
silver certificates. The average in
tellect regards it as an accommodation
Of silver which, as n result of hostile
legislation, may be let loose upon
the world and produce flood Of this
money.
So l say wise public policy would
have put your mLIls near you raw
products, your mints near your
mines, and the result would ha We
been that both gold and silver would.
from these centers OF production and
centers Of coinage, have been spread
all over the Western and the Southern
region, and would gradually reach the
East itself, and accustom the people
there to the use OF the only real
money, the only money of redemp-
ton.
Now we come to the question Of
what justice requires at this time.
Philadelphia has thus far appropriat-
ed almost all Of the coinage Of tho
silv or and gold product in the West.
Only recently, outside of the legisla.
ton relating to the Carson mint, has
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