Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1903-04-24

To the Editor Of the Nail-Sr:
Prosperity and Souphouses' was the
heading of an article in recent lSSr"
Of he unesteemed San Francisco Cal
Now this word prosperity IS beginning
TO be a risky one to venture. at least
among the accumulatOrs OF wealth,
a term we use as opposed to the grab
bers of wealth" men worth from. say
$4,000 to $5,OO0,OOO. One OF these In
forms us that ne could have got 500
900 for a piece of property on Fourth
street in 1869, and is offered only $40,
600 for it now. when the city has five
times the population that it had then.
Another could have got $4,000 for
lot on Mission street in 1888, that
would perhaps bring $4,000 to-day.
farmer boosted that he had just paid
500 for firewood , and explained it by
saving that fruit raising means bank
ruptcy. he had accordingly cut down
all his fruit trees for stovewoOd and
felt the better for it. A big real-estate
man at Stockton says that prosperity
in his section is all bosh: that the
farmers neverfared so badly as now.
Now for souphouses: This means
the old crank cry that Democrats with
free-trade brought the country to soup
houses, but the Republicans recovered
it grandly With protection. Any man
who saws this is either fool CT d
knave. The vitality bad years Of the
last hard times were the last two
years of HarrisCn's administrator and
the first two OF Clcveland's and the
whole # this period was passed under
the Mckinley tariff law. Aye verify
Mcssrs Republicans. that causes Yo,
to gasp. does it. not? We can not he'll
it, there stand the facts; you may pre-
Earicate but you cant change history
The so-called frPe-traGe measure
known as the Wilson Bill, WAS IN
known till 1894. while all the horror
Of 93 that you keep throwing into on
teeth occurred in q Mckinley year, TO
the Mckinley law was IL operation
from October /. 1890, until Septembe
/, 1894. Many Democrats seem to b.
no wiser on this point than the Rel
ublicans since they do not use thi
powerful argument in discussions wit
Republicans SO we will inform then
right here that the Wilson law did no
cause the hard times, because it dI
not go into effect until near lS95
when the country was on the uD-grad
again; and on the other hand PFC
1ectCn could not have had saved TIL
nation. because the most fearful tinar
tial crash occurred under the Mckini2
law.
However, when all is said, all thes
disasters were not due to the fiscl
policy of either party. but from tn
scarcity of money. brought about b
the Republican leaders at the dictatio
Of Rothschild and other Jewish none
sharpers in Europe. These GENT
had bought up our bonds during tt
war at 80 to 40 cents on the dollar; c
these they We're allowed percent i
terest in gold. and consequently raise
u per cent gold on a basis OF 500
gold This tasted so good that the
soon longed for more and they accor
ingly ordered their Washington CT
ployes to pass law making the bon,
payable in silver and gold, which raj
ca their 30-per cent rag money to pa
luoo led OOc auos 10 9scaLou! I
Then bloated with victory, they gre
bolder and babe their same Washir
ton employees Gall Republicans To q
monetize silver. The money supp
of the world up to 1873 was botwe'
$250,000,O00 and 5000 ZOO 900 yearl