White Pine news weekly mining review. [volume] (East Ely, Nev.) 1910-1920, 1912-07-28
NEW WORLD FIND
WAS A BARGAIN
JUDGE {. c. GOODWIN IN SALT
LAKE TELEGRAM COMPARES
COLUMBUS INCIDENT WITH
PRESENT DAY OPPORTUNITIES

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the coal which the L~usitania burns
daily when at sea. Was 1t not lucky
that the new world was found before
the tariff raised the price of coal?
The politicians in Spain were all pro-
gressives at the time. The price of
food products had been reduced to
the minimum. The wages of the
seamen on the vessels of Columbus,
S1.25 per month, were not exorbit-
ant But often their food was cheap,
so we're their sombreros and SER
rappas, and they were all the cloth
ing needed. Then that was before
the characterization of silver, and
there was 20 discount on their
money.
But what a giyeaway this dis
coyery is on the bluff that Isabella
made when she offered to pawn her
jewelry to fit out the expedition.
How much real jewelry could she
have possessed? And Columbus
had worked for years to obtain that
needed money. and had been turned
down by two or three nations. But
the three little boats, two without
decks made the voyage safely, but
the Titanic went down.
Surely 1t was time for a new world
to be found. How desperately poor
the old world had became-so poor
that the masses were falling back in
TO barbarism. There were very few
little red s~ehoolhouses, and where
they do not exist, barbarism is not
far away. Under such poverty the
manhood and womanhood of a ma
tion cannot bear the strain, and
slowly perish. We talk of the dark
ages in Europe. The original cause
was nothing but poverty. What little
of money there was had grayitated
to the few, and for the masses there
was nothing.
We wish our statemen would con-
slider that. The farms and orchards.
the mills and mines of our country
yield money enough annually to pur-
chase and pay for an empire, but IL
nearly all goes in fares and freights;
in interest on American bonds held
abroad; in the money sent back an
nually by foreigners to their fami-
lies. in the expenditures of TOURISTS
in foreign countries; in the purchase
of foreign Injuries.
Some of this cannot be avoided,
but the interest paid abroad could
be; so could the fares and f%reights.
And there should be such an adjust
ment of finances as would restore
our lost export trade and stop
the payment of premiums on
foreign pauper made products.
But while this ought to be
plain enough for any man to see.
do any of the platforms ven men
tion these things in this year 1912?
Is II not about time for the American
people to keep at home what they
earn?
A leaky ship can sometimes be
kept ahoat by constant pumping; but
would II not be better to stop the
leaks?
But to return to that first voyage
of Columbus, was ever anything so
grand as that obtained at so beggarly
a price? Indeed, except the coming
of the Savior, nothing in the worlds
history compares with that voyage in
all the events that have given diree-
ton to this worlds mighty works.
When civilization was ready to
perish, and the poor had half con-
Guided that there was no God to an
swer their prayers, the veil was sud
denly lifted from the face of the
sullen sea. and lol a new world In
describable in its loyeliness and
freighted with wealth i~ncalculable
was seen.
No wonder the seamen whose
hearts had grown dark with mutiny
fell upon their knees before thelr
commander. No wonder that upon
his return TO Spain royolty bent
abashed before him, then sank upon
their knees TO praise God for his
mercies. while the choir of the royal
chapel. with melodious accompani-
ments of the instruments, ehanted
the anthem ."Te Deum Laudamus'
and all the assembly on their knees
Joined in the praise and the thanks,
his experience has been much ike
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