Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1905-10-28
WHO ARE THE
THIEVES NOW?
Has Not the Time Arrived for Silver
Coinage Advocates to Say
Il Told You Sol"

All things do not come to him who
waits, but some things come some
times.
The country is shocked at the
startling revelations of the methods
of certain great insurance compan-
les with headquarters in New York.
New York City is stunned; some of
its chiefest idols are broken, conf
dence falters and interest goes up.
Some western men are malicious
enough to say al told you so.'
Why? Because those insurance
thieves are the men who were fore
most in shouting "sound money" a
dozen years ago. A little group of
them, not twenty in all, worked up
the conspiracy which caused the de-
monetization of silver when the
government, States, cities and indi-
viduals owed quite six thousand
millions of dollars. BY the act, they
reduced the value of all property
except gold and interest-bearing Sc
curities one-half, as measured by
gold. They doubled the value OF the
gold and the interest bearing secur-
tiles, by reducing the property val
ues of the land so per cent. When
they had done that and the people
began to clamor because OF the rob-
berry and the unparalleled burdens
placed upon them, then those cor
morants Put on an injured look and
bewailed the apparent dishonesty OF
men who demanded that the dis
honest" silver dollar be restored.
And the great toady press of the
East pointed to those financial
giants, those stern advocates OF COM
mon honesty, those superb hnan-
eiers, who would save the western
inflationists against themselves, and
would restore the country to finan-
cial sanity. AS last device they
precipitated the PANIC of '93 and
with Grover Cleveland to help them
Grover Cleveland, who was elect
ed on a platform demanding silver
remonetization-they finally de-
stroyed halt the real money of the
world and left the land reproach
and the pity of poor old Mexico.
Tens of thousands of men were
ruined, business was paralyzed,
nearly all railroads were in the
hands of receivers, and a procession
of 100000 tramps was the most sin
lister picture ever shown to the
country.
But God took pity on the land at
last. The harvests were cut oft in
southern Kurope. in Australia, in
Argentine, and the world had to
come to the United States tor bread,
even as the brothers of Joseph went
to the granaries by the Nile for food.
This gave the United States in three
wears a balance in her favor of more
than two thousand millions of dol
lars. Then great gold discoveries
in the Rand, in West Australia, in
Cripple Greek, Alaska and the North
west Territory, coupled with the
miracle of the cyanide process, be-
gan to fill the world with gold, and
the United States, under these rein
torcements of money, has taken on
such prosperity that many men for
get the shame and sin of 1893, "a and
'os And so much gold has flowed
into New York that the city has
been surfeited with wealth.
But now, as from clear sky,
comes the thunderbolt which shows
that those great tinanciers, those
stalwart upholders of Sound
money" those men who were so
shocked because the millions of the
masses would not be content to be
robbed without a protest, were all
the time thieves. Now comes the
proof that all the time those immac-