The Courier. (Genoa, Nev.) 1899-1904, 1902-10-31
Never More Alive Than Now.

House and the Hill Bill in the Senate
the declaration that 'the Silver ques-
ton is dead" is an insult to the intelli-
genee of every man who is at all con-
versant with the provisions of those
pending measures, the enactment of
either of which into law would abso-
lutely wipe out the last vestage of
recognition which the white metal
now has in the currency system of the
nation.
1t would not only accomplish this,
but it would reduce silver from one of
the precious, to the list of base metals,
to be used only for merchantial pur-
poses, an perhaps in the GLOVER branches
of the arts and sciences, with nomin-
al commercial value of fifteen or posi-
bly, twenty cents per ounce. The Jour-
nal has called attention to this fact
in a number of previous articles, to-
gether with the inevitable effect that
such reduction would have upon the
gold as we'll as what is left of the sill
yer mining industry of the State. But
the matter cannot be too often or too
strongly presented to the people of
Nevada, for it involves the question of
the preservation or nearly, if not fully,
the destruction of all mining industry
within our borders. AT the present
price of silver-a little over fifty cents
per ounce-a few of the richest of the
exclusively silver mines are being
worked at perhaps small profit. Does
anyone question the fact with a rs per
cent reduction in the price of the met
al, that every one of those mines must
be closed down? If there is mine in
the State that is being worked exclu-
sively for gold, or which does not pro-
duce greater or less amount of silver,
we are not aware of it's location.
Neither do we know of ''gold" mine
in the State, which without it's silver
accompaniment could be worked at
profit to its owners. Does any sane
person believe, under those conditions,
with such reduction as we have men,
toned, that half dozen of the mines
now besng operated in the State could
be worked otherwise than at an actual
loss to their owners?
That the Fowler and Hill bills if sue
cessfully exploited would effect such
reduction is admitted, and boastfully
so, by their most ardent supporters,
both in the Senate and in the House.
That such reduction would have the
effect upon the mining industry of the
State that we have described must be
equally apparent to all who are at all
familiar with the character of the ores
in the mines now being worked in the
different districts in Nevada.
Instead of the Silver question being
a "dead issue" it was never so much
alive as at the present time. There
never was time since the demonetiz-
alton of silver in 1873, when the bimet-
allists of the country should remain
more closely united than in this year
of our Lord, 1902 There never was a
time in the history of Nevada when
her most vital interest was more
strongly threatened than by the mel g.
ures now pending in our National
Congress.
Nevadans, will you aid the threat
eners in carrying out their hellish de-
sign by permitting the Hanna gang,
now working the State" to purcha.
the election of Senator and Congress-
man who will vote for the passage of
either of these destructive measure s?
We do not believe you will.-Journal.