Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1908-06-16
THE WAR on GOLD

The advance hints as to what the
political platforms of the two great
parties will consist of have never men
toned mining and not word has been
said about gold or silver. There is
promise, of course. that much will he
said about the currency, but what about
the metals of which the legal tender
of the nation should be made?
Silver has became taboo among the
petty politicians of both parties-men
who can't think of anything larger than
the chance of winning and who, to
avoid losing an election, would rather
say nothing. Such Il thing as principle,
they never seem to consider The re-
publican party, in particular, is given
over hand and foot to the money barOns
of Wall Street, and there has not come
from the White House even Il breath of
silver or of gold in all that Mr.. Roose
welt has been so kind as to tell the re-
porters of the document he has prepared
for adoption at Chicago today.
Now haven't the democrats of the
the convention at Denver recognition of
gold rs well as silver? 1t is gold that is
to fight for it's life now. 1t is the gold
that our state produces. that comes from
Colorado, that is dug from the depths
OF the earth in California, that is
thawcd ont of the frozen tundra of
Alaska-gOld is what is threatened by
the republican party with its so-called
Emergency Currency Bill We have
been handed over body and soul to the
If you don't believe it, listen to this
from the Philadelphia North American,
II staid republican paper:
This law will mean the turning over
of the Treasury of the United States to
the gamblers of the New York Stock
Exchange for a period of six years 1t
Will mean the making of good times
and bad times of bull markets and
bear markets according to the pleasure
OF Rogers and Rockefeller. i'm the
National City Bank and j. p. Morgan
IN the National Bank of Commerce. II
Will mean not the slow and certain
movements of contraction and initiation
by the natural laws of commerce. but
sharp changes forced at will by the
master gamblers. It will mean the Gift
to the chief enemies of the nation of
the power to issue or retire half Il billion
of dollars, exciting speculation or COM
pciling disaster, according to which
ever best suits their betting book
What the effect will be upon the com
ing elections we do not know. We do
not know what measure Of punishment
"a long suffering people will iuflict upon
their bctrayers.
III other words, the value of money
will no longer he measured by the
standard of gold. but by Wall Street
speculative values. Gold will cease to
lie the standard. Do you understand
that? That is what the Emergency
Currency Bill means passed by re-
publican congress and signed by q
republican president.
1t is evident that the mining interests
and the miners of the nation must look
10 democratic party to fight this peril.
Let it he brought fcarlcssly before the
convention at Denver. Let the story of
what threatens the very interests upor
which we all subsist in these mining
states and upon which all business is
dependent, he told before the represent
atives Of the democracy Of the land 81
plainly that there will he no chance {,
Jnisundertand it,