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Show JOXES JAW. Tlie Sliver Jirualor Talks Silver. Sil-ver. Cold, direeubuchsiiuil Oruot to a .ew York Itejiorier. New York, 4. 3ena:or Jones, of Nevada, was interviewed here, to day, on various subjects. With regard to the silver bill, tbe senator says there is not the slightest danger of it being diuturbed. The reserve of $50,000,-000 $50,000,-000 silver in tbe treasury bas done more than any one thing to restore and maintain confidence in resumption, resump-tion, Bot prices on tbe upward turn and put tbe wheels of iuduatry in motion. The present business activity ac-tivity and flow of gold is based on starvation in Europe and good crops in this country, and when local and temporary causes are removed re-moved and gold again flows to Europe, a3 it must in time, we will either have to increase the volume of currency by silver or silver certificates or encounter another panic. When ! asked about the destruction of legal j tenders, bo said the redemption of greenbacks in gold and their final re tirement will not keep an ounce or dollar more of gold in this country when tbe European demand sets in. The idea ia a fallacy advanced by some of tbe journals here, that the demand lor gold abroad will lead to ita being bought by money brokers and shipped just as we ship so much wheat or produce, and when that demand comes, however great it may be, the holders of greenbacks, instead of rushing rush-ing to the treasury for gold, will hold greenbacks with just as much confidence confi-dence in its value as in a government bond. They are likely to be at a alight premium ovor gold. On being asked if be thought the currency wae inflated at the the present time, the senator said some of these pawnbrokers pawn-brokers down in Wall street will tell you it is inflated. They want to buy a thing for a piece of guano, and not for gold. If it is inflated it is inflated in-flated in tbe right way. Prices have risen and will continue to rise for the next five years, and you tell your friends to buy real estate in New York, or Chicago and they will double their money in the next three years. I've got some that I will sell and take 90o. so called Bilver dollars. The inBtautaneous growth of this country in population and its business interests in-terests will require, ten years from now, five times the amount of currency cur-rency now in circulation, and the people will wake up to it before long. Banka will be compelled to bank on every bond they can reach to Bupply the demand. Jones would like to Bee Blaine nominated for preaident, but Bays Grant will get it. He is the man for these lively times, and he will be elected if nominated by such an overwhelming majority that he will Bink the partisian in the patriot. The general will rescue such a splendid vote in the south, that the solid south will cease to be a threat of menace to the people of the north, and a Btalwart policy will be no longer required. The south will again bud and blossom like a rose garden, and government will foater schemes for the improvement of her : rivers, levees and canals. General , Grant is a wonderful, if not a great i man. He seems instinctively to do the right thing. Hia Chicago speech ' will gain him many votes from tbe , bitter element in the south, if 1 he is nominated, of which I have no doubt. Grant takes a much broader and more comprehensive view of things and has ideas for promoting pro-moting our commerce with foreign nations. He is enthusiastio in his realization there of the greatneaa of " a-int ia elected again, u- i&tory ostfed' " ta tuiae' VJiOS will not only be orecfVor his unflinching will, but loved for his intense devotion to the republio, and every state and portion of it alike. He will be a second Cin-cinnatua Cin-cinnatua in pursuiti and achievements. achieve-ments. Tbe senator thinks Leadville mines far surpasa tbe bonanzas of the Com-atook Com-atook Lode in their palmiest days. There is more mineral in sight now there than at any one time in the bonanzas. I say this on my experience experi-ence and judgment as an old miner and a personal investigation. |