The Wallace miner. [volume] (Wallace, Idaho) 1907-current, 1918-08-29
Colonel Remnants Letter.
Spokane, Wash, Aug. 26, 1918

DpOhdue, w dSIl., Aug. 20 1910.
Senator Charles B. Henderson
Chairman of Senate Committe on
Mines and Mining, Washington, d. c.,
Dear Sir 1t was the old North Caro-
lima farmer who said the best way to
take the conceit out of man was to
hang him!
When a Presbyterian minister with
a face on him long enough to eat oats
out of churn importuned Horace
Greeley for money ito save people
from going to hell" Horace blandly re-
Piled Tut! Tut! There amt half
enough people go to hell as it is"
Either one of those men would
readily have told us there is nothing
immutable, sacred, holy, or divine,
about the gold standard"
But very few men in this world
do the real thinking for the balance.
A sudden appearance of good sense
always startles the multitude.
AS matter of course, and natural
part Of the worlds regular business,
cept the announcement of world war
with the philosophical remark:
""Taint very good war, nohow, but
it's the only one we've got, and. we've
got to fight it through" but merely
mention the fact that the real value
OF gold for the uses of man has chang
ed in the last 200 years-and instant
ly their murky sheets glow with all
is-hell editorials.
The mere strain of acknowledging
the simple truth that gold has greater
uses and is of higher value to man
kind than 200 years ago, ought not to
cause ring bones and spavins on our
high financiers in Wall street
though 1t may, upon his Teutonic
godship Of Germany. Which nations
now have in their jeans the bulk of
gold coin, and own the gold mines
from which to dig more-must recent
ly have become quite apparent to one
Hohenzollern.
A Case of Have To.
While gold miners are, on the whole,
perhaps, more vitality interested in the
subject matter than any other class,
bankers, as mere shareholders, are not
in good form" in intruding their opin-
ions except when specially invited to
do so by the people whose funds they
hold in trust-their paramount duty Is
performed when they render unto
Caesar the things that are Caesars"
Raising the price of gold Is a world
long step, and rightly should be - so
taken; but, as the greatest gold-hold-
ing nation, If we take the step, under
the circumstances now prevailing, 9TH
ers will be practically compelled to.
A down south darkey was telling
story involving fox climbing tree,
when one Of his hearers objected that
fox could not climb a tree--but the
darkey Immediately rejoined "True,
sub! He CANT, but the dogs got af-
ter him and he had to-"
We have recently found out this
nation can do almost anything, If 1t
has to-"
When once upon a day, more than
200 years ago, THE Old Lady or
Threadneede Street" purchased some
gold at certain price, she little
dreamed that the price she paid for
gold that day was to set the price OF
gold for all time.
Undoubtedly she paid for gold that
day what the wisest and best finan-
ciers then considered the true value OF
gold for the uses of mankind under
the times and conditions then prevail
ing--no more; but 1t is surely disclos-
ing no secret valuable to the enemy
to state now that times and condi-
tions have changed in the last two
centuries.
To dig gold and prepare 1t for the
uses OF man Is labor--much labor
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