Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-10-06

the earth had opened and swallowed
him. So the eastern gold seekers were
left with the bag to hold.
The strangest part Of the tale is that
this scheme which was worked SO sue
cessfully upon the wise men of the east
by the old and familiar process Of salt
ing the mine-in this case the sea wa
ter-is about 30 years old. So far as ]
know it was invented by q Polish count
in the days Of General Boulanger and
worked upon guileless Parisians to the
tune Of something like $500, 900. If our
eastern friends would only read the pa
pers and keep posted, they would avoid
being trapped SO easily.
So the great ''Eleotrolytio Marine
Salts company followed the south sea
bubble and its like into the infinite
realms of space and once more the sim
gle gold standard prophets are dunn
founded - a~usgespielt "hoist with
their own petard'-and the world is
reduced to plain digging and spading
and blasting and mining to exc out its
supply of gold. "'Tis true, and pity
tits tits true"
Now, let no ''holier than thou sim
gle gold standard advocate conclude for
one moment that the unregenerate free
silverites rejoice at these ignuminieus
failures to find enough of the auriferous
metal to answer the rational demands
of the human race or mock them and
their agonies while they are writing
in the slough of despond. Far be such
cruelty from us. We shall not jibe or
guy or ridicule them. We shall not
make faces at them. We will not crow
over them. We remember the tender
lines of the Quaker poet:
OF all sad words of tongue or pen
The saddest are these: 1t might have been.
No. We will not belabor the goldies
for their utter failure to accomplish
what they esteem the greatest good
the summum bonum-to the human
race. Poor things, unwittingly and I'M
Intentionally they were demonstrating
beyond a peradventure what the silver
cranks have always overwhelmingly,
that there is not a sufficient quantity of
gold in the world for its financial and
commercial uses.
would misrepresent no human be.
ing knowingly. Certainly not such
ultra patriotic and utterly superior per-
sons as the gold standardites.
Some Inconsistencies.
With this feeling Of kindness animal
ing me, and seeking only light and
knowledge, desiring only the prosperity
Of my countrymen, anxious above all
things to tell the truth and nothing but
the truth, I repeat that in their own
way the gold monometallists have proved
beyond all cavil the lamentable insufici-
ency of the gold supply-the basic prop
osition of the bimetallic propaganda
for, if there is enough of gold to supply
the demands of the world, why do they
seek more gold? Why did they shout
with Joy when the report came that
mountains of it had been discovered in
Alaska? Why did they lift up their
voices in jubilation when DR.. Emmens
announced his discovery of "argentau-
rum?" Why did they hail with acclaim
the man who was going to extract an
unlimited amount of gold from anti
mony?
Why did their hearts-full Of the
milk Of human kindness-palpitate
with ineffable felicity when the Chicago
alchemist announced that he could
thwart the laws of nature and make
gold out of anything he laid his hands
on? Why did they Guido in gullibility
any tenderfoot that was ever cheated by
the bad men out west by subscribing
lavishly for the worthless stock of the
most barefaced swindle of the nine
tenth century, "The Eleetrolytic Ma
rine Salts company"
In short, why, if there is an album
dance of gold, are the gold monometal-
lists DESTROYS of increasing the supply?
Let them answer that. Too much of 9
good thing is VIGOROUSLY worse than
enough. If we already have enough
gold, then every additional grain added
to our supply is a grain too much, and
by just that much brings upon gold the
reproach that the gold monometallists
have sought for, 10, these many years
to fasten upon silver-that its very su-
perabundance cheapened it and rendered
it unfit for use as a money metal. The
gold men cannot deny that this is the
logical and inevitable conclusion to be
drawn from their eagerness to discover
new goldfields-even to do the impossi-
BILE, and create gold. Men are Judged in
this life more by what they do than by
what they say, and they may below
like SO many bulls of Bashan that
''there is gold enough until they go
stone blind, but SO long as they ransack
every nook and corner Of the earth to
find moreover revamping the exploded
theories Of the notwithstanding will
believe that they themselves believe
what they say, for they do not practice
what they preach.
They might as we'll come down off
their high horse and acknowledge the
coIn."
Now, 1 repeat that the silver cranks
are not reviling them for their futile
attempt to discover an adequate gold
supply. We boldly and honestly say
there is not enough gold for money and
commercial purposes. By their actions
they admit our contention. So at last
we are agreed on the great basic prooo-
sition of all financial theorizing that
there is not gold enough known to be
in the world to answer the demands Of
the world for its financial, commercial
and artistic uses''-O. e. ID.