| Show MVMIJAtmlUMI tlllUl lrecnt yrore hays wllnd the production by what may be termed chemlrnl processes literally the manufacture man-ufacture of a 1 new metal aluminum and 110 extensive use In the arts It nay be sold that tha metal Is I not nanufacturtd but Is I only extracted from the clay that produces It Hut Ihl point out 110 ngnro In the connre lion In which the metal la I here referred re-ferred to For present purposes It Is I ouilHent ta say that the piospector doa not find It In metallic form he sees It only as a calcareous substance If from such a substance eo useful a metal can be produced why cannot gold be obtained In a similar way 11 t Is known that It Is I a most widely dtrrllKed slllsianeo nOli Iht eel the waters of the ocean hold It In solution Iccentl there have appeared In prlnl statements to the effect that gold has been produced from other ubBlnncei and alleged scientific the rles > as to how this has been and can ho done have been elaborated The notion nf ancient nlchemliiu are bong bo-ng discussal I and tint too In a proc Ual way by scientific men who seem 10 believe It paislMc for man to discover I dis-cover the avtrctR by which nature pro < luccs tho yellow metal Buppose they succeed what then Suppose another Uesaemer shall arise who by a chemical process vlll cheapen cold ai lie chenM > n d steel what will bu the consequences Here I 1 a theme for speculative contemplation contempla-tion Ta manufacture gold chenily would < 0 to destroy This Is a paradoxical I para-doxical statement but a true one as anY one eBn nan It Is I 0118 ot the mot ssclesu uf melI ansi woull Intantly oeoeo tll be weed OR money the only Itrlbulo that gIven It lIlue were It to bo produced by a cheap manufai turlng pe Woull the discovery of a methol fir pioduclng gold fhenplj Iw a blt sIng s-Ing to mankind The dirt rcrults of such n 1 discovery < tot ha t-ot doubtful bencdcencc Th world woull be bewllderwl The rare would nnd Itself without a 1 measure of value No man woul1 hnw any Idea what he was worth Solvency and Insolvency In-solvency would be terms without den nlllons How to ray enlstlnK elobts and dlohnlI enmoting ontel wouM be problems that no man rouhl solve ever heart ot civilization would become ns ashci for gold In I the heart of the highest civilization man ha yet mined would eel up a better one than eldv might ensue can only be speculated specu-lated upon Hut no new discover In science ever nl wrought the pfrmintnt disadvantage disadvant-age uf the human rare and a plausible te W nnlr line I ot reawnlng lead ta the belief that I a discovery which would tout I destroy all the gold there In 1 In the vrurld or Its > ulu vvhlih In n sepse Is I the coma thing would work co harm 10 monlln thot uuld long ell lure A new standard ot value woUld be devUcd and established and enforced en-forced by law ana there Is little doub that the Intelligence and cease of Jus lire to which the present age has at talmvl would set up a better one than gold now Is I In view of tIe nchlYOmenl oclenee Is I dally making Ill Is I two 1I1ud to as crt that she will rot yi t find some method uf nil actin gold from tin Tia associates among vtht h II ib unds III nature eo easily as to do trny Ito vulau ao a moll v nla ss I bough chemUts hold It ta be an tilt i mcntary substance not to ba created by combination ot uther elemnt It Is Impossible to foresee In what nbuiul anon It may yet bo produced nor to predict that It will long eonUnllo M aree a It I Is I now The ore men ot science 100 are willing to believe that the world Is on the eve of gnat developments along these lines |
