Mohave County miner., 1911-08-12
Misstating History.

In the July Atlantic Monthly is an article emitted: ''The Trail of the Ar gonauts," by Mir. Charles M. Harvey.
 We have no idea who Mir. Harvey may be, but we take it that he has gathered all the data possible al d from it Las patched together a readable artic e. It is most faulty in its details, though it contains great many facts. He gives away the fact on almost every page that he never lived in the far west, and if he ever visited it, he was careful not to stray away out of heal ing of a locomotive whistle. But D, matter about that; the article has good deal that i- inc est ng in ii. and will be read by every one who contemp- lstes visiting the west sometime, of be- ing absent month or six weeks and then on his return writing history of the 'Far West"
 In the course of the article in the Atlantic we find the following:
 "The thing which was = rnck' on that June day of 1859 was the vein cov- ing of what came to be known as the Comstock LoGe, in which were hidden the richest deposits of silver ever found anywhere on the globe"
 What was really found was some de- composed quli tz from t:.e Comstock lode, so rich in gold that it excited general int crest The silver present was not dreamed of for a good while thereafter. The silver and gold in the vein for each lOOS had 55, in silver)at the old ratiOl and AS in g. Id. A ain the vein was never the richest in sil- yer, but there was more of it than W. S ever found before unless in a ID ne in Mexico and in Peru.
 But, continuing, MT. Harvey says:
 "There development. years af = ward, simultaneously with that of the silver mines of Colorado started the downward flood in ILe price of silver which broke the old ratio between the money metals; changed the monetary system of the leading nations from the double to the single standard" etc.
 There Mir. Harvey in his plunging way, does very great wrong even while he no doubt believes he is tell ing the truth. The developments show that certain financial thieves in London grew afraid that with so much honest money ID the world, the rates ot interest would be lowered, or that in great part people and nations would pay their debts and cease paying interest and how to stop this became their concernment.
 England had adopted the gold stand ard in ISIS that in her trade with the world she might exact gold from her debtors, but her action had made no difference in the ratio between the metal. That ratio had not changed in a century. So long as full recognition | was given silver by the leading nations ] it was as good as gold and, indeed, was the most reliable metal, for an old trick l of goldis to disappear when any trouble | is threatened.
 But when of the debt of our great war there was still outstanding in | heavy bearing bonds 2,2OO, 900, | O00S, the thieves of London who live on i the interest they collect pointed out to the interest-gatherers of New York and | Boston that if silver could be demonet. ized in the United States and Germany. l it would break its value, and it would | be possible to draw the interest on | these bonds and other bonds, notably ! American railroad bonds, for perhaps | forty years to come, and would, more- | over, so reduce the value Of all forms of property except gold and interest bearing securities, that it would make | it much more difficult for the people to | pay the interest and would add vastly . to the purchasing power of the money collected in interest.
 The bondholders and National bank CTS of New York and Boston saw the point. First a law was pushed through Congress making government debts payable in specie[gold and silver). Then the controller of the cure ency, NIT. Knox, was reached, and he prepar- ed bill with the innocent title, flor the better regulation of the currency" and by a sneak and some shameful falsehoods, it became law. No one