Bisbee daily review., 1918-08-18

urer shall urgently invite all citizens of the United States to send to the United States treasury for minting into gold coin all gold plate, gold jewelry. and all gold of all descrip- ticns to be minted and returned to the owners in gold coin; and the silver contained with said gold articles tO be minted into silver dollars and re- turned to the owners when SO minted.
 It is respectfully suggested that to avoid public confusion and harmful discussions. congress take no more than one day for discussing and pass. ing this law. that the president sign the law on the same day. and upon the same day the law to be telegraphed in full to all parts of the United States.
 Adverse Conditions General
 The conditions now Obstructing. and in many cases preventing. gold min ing. are general and applicable to all gold mines. Manifestly. adequate re- lief must also be general and appli- cable to all gold mining.
 The present high miners wages are general and sufficient. alone. to close down many low grade gold mines
 
 is general and applicable to all gold mines and is quite sufficient. alone. to close down many low grade gold mnes which are obliged to use distant smelt- CTS.
 The high cost of provisions. mining tools and machinery, blasting powder. caps and fuse. is general and sufficient to render most low grade gold mines unprOfitable
 And all the foregoing high costs to- gether. are effectively sufficient to prevent the exploitation and develop ment of new gold mines by cOnserva- tive and cautious business interests
 Even those who have high grade gold mines are now naturally slack ening down their output. or shuuing off production entirely. because they are not receiving a just or fair price for their product.
 Relief Must Be Permanent
 Mining is a vastly costly business. and the miner whose ledger balance strikes the wrong side many months in succession goes over the hills tO the pOorhOuse.
 The worlds deficiency in gold coin is now scientifically enormous and every moment growing more stupen- dous.
 Plainly the relief sought must be Of a broad gagged. radical and general character. to be effective in this great emergency.
 Relating to the gold miner the re- cent advance in freight rates. while praiseworthy. plainly would not be ef fective
 Remission of excess profit taxes on gold mines. while praiseworthy, would not be effective as relief in our pres ent great emergency.
 The building of new roads Co scat tered mining prospects. while encour- aging. would be futile in attaining the desired Objectvie.
 As to the proposal to give the gold miners a bonus making the prce they receive for their gold equal to S3O per is wholly impractical and unwise for many obvious reasons among which might be mentioned: (a) The giving of S15O in gold for the of S1.0O in gold is not good business on the face of it. (bl It could he only a temporary expedient at the best in which the government would be loser. (c) The government would be raising the general parity of gold for the benefit of the gold miner only. not for the general public nor for the government, except insofar as there might be very slight and who'll ly immaterial increase effected in the general stock of gold by this tempo ,hu would still remain that there was not
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