Show f the ta ai 35 bri we a aph in sa sat t issue on the ilard hard times in v Calir california ornia wo we observe that we are not alone in the opinion expressed ti therein lem in the sacramento bee it a paper edited witia much ability says bayl I our people meaning Californi californians ani will in time discover di cover that our troubles arise from our persistency in illan mantius ing a financial system contrary to that prevailing ahdong am otta thop with whom all our commercial and financial business is transacted thus 0 giving ivan 0 them the advantage over us this inn language 11 is used in in re reference forence to the specific contract law ot of that state a law wo we will venture to say the people never irever demanded it was IV as ell enacted acted for the benefit of the donled influence and has ever since operated disastrously di ly to all classes of community excepting those who make it a business of specula tinz tins upon the currency of the I 1 nation gold ia i a of that state and should be treated as any other product either gold or currency must be vie fie stan standard darL in every crery and territory east of the rocky Mount mountains ning currency is the standard and got gold is bought and sold the same as miar mi ar or coffee is bought an and sold the government has declared arvd that its paper shall abah be the currency and california lias has declared dt C lared that it shall not be lii i f but I 1 t that b ft it 9 shall sh i lat ft all I 1 ib be e a marketable article the result is that california is growing poorer every day she Sh ohis has not anong enough gh gold on hand for ordinary transactions but his hac an abundance of currency ilow how did all this currency get into the state not alone through the agency of government t officers ceis certainly it has been shipped to san francisco on speculation we think california is wrong in her position on the currency question it is today to day the only stain upon her hear loyalty andee hope to see it wiped out by liar her next legislature 0 the red ed bitoff independent one of thi the ablest interior papers ot of tue state says we have always advocated the adoption of tile the national curi currency ency in califor nii nia because we have havel thought hought r and still think it would be advantageous advant 1 grous to the state in developing its ces opening in 0 its mines building it its railroads and causing ausin the hum buin of industry turing and business generally genei genci ally to resound theoti throughout hout her borders fit filling I 1 ind thu the poor nun man s pocket with wilh money au and the working mans house with all thu the necessaries of ilife causing enterprise to start st up in all stations with new mer ener gy and lile life these are arc a lew few of the results that would flow from such adoption t 4 we contend that gold is tho the commodity the supply and demand for which regulates Pau lates its value r we contend that gold and silver nevor never lid did furnish a medium of trade or commerce or exchange as a circulation el me daum in any country paper has always and always will be the medium of business transactions ci edit is the basis of all commercial transactions the credit ol of the iho government being the best therefore we have advocated tho the adoption of the paper of drabe abe government gold is ol 01 ww ie of tile the staple articles ot of production of california and government might as well legis legislate bate in reference refe renco to the wheat of ohio or the coal and oil of pennsyl f t vania as to the price ot of gold the 1 article of calif aini e r i the an ounce the better tor our dur airier mi rier mand will control the price of gold the same as wheat Du DUMAS AiAs c h novelist is in new york yorka lie ile is hunting material for anew a near novel bedl better come t to 0 utah c can ah obtain enough hair stand on end for the balanco balance of his life I 1 I 1 1 1 1 46 |