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Salt Lake Telegram | 1933-06-24 | Page 5 | United Silver Acton Urged

Type issue
Date 1933-06-24
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title United Silver Acton Urged
Type article
Date 1933-06-24
Paper Salt Lake Telegram
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
Page 5
OCR Text UNITED SILVER ACTION URGED West Must Evolve Definite Plan Robinson Tells Tell R Rotary Club tar Cu s I r PROVO PROVO PROVO United action acton of western westerI wester I I states tates through though their congressional I representatives is i nee needed ed to assure asure success of any measure to restore all sil silver ver vel to its it for former er position Congress Congressman Congre man J. J Will Robinson o of Provo told I Provo Rotarians Friday at the Hotel Roberts Robert With the economic future of the Wih future entire en en- tire Ure country so o dependent on solving this thi problem efforts to get such mena men mer menas I as a Senators Borah of Idaho merI I of Nevada Navada and Wheeler of Montana to te I back a n definite plan should shoud be under under- taken by those thoe interested in silver Mr Robinson declared I Had the thc proposed silver sUver bill been beer 1 p passed assed at the last session silver siver would I r rise ise to 60 or 75 cents Mr Robinson s stated The amendment which gave President Roosevelt power for unlimited un l limited coinage of silver siver was the means used by enemies enemies' of at the te white metal to sidetrack the proposed bill bU Mr Robinson declared However in i Mr Robinsons Robinson's opinion President Roosevelt will never use te this power The Te effect which the te proposed bill bills c calling alling caling for purchasing of worth worth worth-of of the silver siver and issuing of sil silver si sil- sil y vcr ver en certificates would woud have on the west wet the entire entre country and even other nations was wa-a told by the tho speaker I It t would especially be of great ulus ulu to using silver nations naton such as China Mr siver Robinson declared pointing point point- point i ing ng out that Chinas China's purchase of at American goods dropped from 78 in 1928 8 to in 1931 due to the decline in sliver silver prices If I silver siver could just jut be ted tied up with wih gold old and thus thu stabilized it i would have a tendency to bring back pros pros- perty to all al sections of the thc country which have already begun to pick pic up through measures passed by the thc recent re recent re- re re cent ent congress under President Roosevelt's Roosevelt's Roose Roose- velt's wels wel's direction ir Mr Robinson said United action acton of Utah Uth and ad Salt Sal Lake county business bulnes men to promote the he Deer Creek Cree project In Provo canyon was Nas adv advocated by Congressman Robinson Robinson Rob Rob- Rob inson before the thc Provo Business Busine and Professional Mens Men's club cub Tur Thursday da evening at Keeley's Ima Imagine lne what the thc spending of fro from I to estimated as ai 2 the cost of ot this thi project would do to te stimulate business in this district Mr Mm Robinson said and ad urged the local lo 10 loI cal to start such a campaign to obtain backing of this th project With Willi all the thc legislation being passed pase in the recent congress all al benefiting b the west ivest there never has ha been a time in the thc history of the nation naton that the west vest wet was so o well wel taken care clue of at Mr Robinson declared declared He said he was well wel pleased with wilt I Ithe the committee he secured being a member of the thc roads reclamation tion ton and Irrigation and public lands anth committees all al of which are of great greal L importance to western states
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