| Show WEALTH GOLD AND SILVER TRUE POLICY it ia is very generally supposed that gold and arid gilver silver constitute wealth it is a fallacy that th at lis ils ia agnost universally believed in these I 1 metals in any form hapa shape or condition do not constitute wealth at the best they only represent it the inan man who possesses nothing else tae tac la Is under eer ter berteth certain teth tain circumstances circum the poor est cat of men they will not quench the raging fraval thirst allay the pangs of hunger shield from the inclemency of the weather nor satisfy the strongest geat and most urgent demands of nature they are superior as a medium of exchange to bills transfer transferable abe promissory notes or paper of any kind that is used to represent wealth for their value is more permanent and their utility greater As well as being used for a circulating medium they are employed in the production of numerous articles of lity beauty and ara adornment hence their superiority still in the most favorable circumstances tey uey who possess nothing but these metals aust must part with them theato to obtain the means of living of being comfortable of enjoying the access accessories otis oris to agreeable existence under the present condition of society they can be employed to make wealth to increase I 1 themselves to bestow upon their possessor all that is to be disposed of or can be purchased they will buy houses lands cattle and property of every kind they can procure the staples of manufacture employ labor multi py the value of the raw material and increase the wealth of entire communities by being wisely employed simply by representing represent in F wealth and being received as such as a medium of exchange but the man who possesses real property true wealth who can feed the hungry clothe the naked and anat shelter the houseless has the advantage of him who possesses simply the precious metals he has and can dispose of that without which the man of gold cannot live and for which he must give his gold it if he would continue his temporal existence they who have dug and toiled and labored to bring Us tu precious metals from the earth in nine cases lases out of ten have ballel to enjoy them or the wealth they have procured they been compelled often through sheer necessity ces sity to part with them that they might live while tb the tha v fortunate foil toil wafe wate possessors of the necessaries ces banies saries of life ilfe have obtained them the whole history ot of the tue mining population of I 1 these vi estern regions proves this and the fact is patent to the least observant that the possessor of that which sustains life and ministers to mans comfort becomes the ultimate possessor of tb the gold aci aud silver in these and in all other regions where the people are similarly situated they who had the metals could nat lat eat them drink them nor nar wear them they bad bid to part with them to procure the of ex stence 1 in all civilized communities gold and sliver I 1 have hive a certain nominal value wh ch remains about the bame same the vast quantities of gold otta obtained ined from the mines on the pacific slope I 1 and in australia during the past fifteen years have not caused it to depreciate in value but the necessaries of life and many of the lug lux luxuries uries urles fluctuate in value as they are penti ful or scarce and difficult to obtain with tho the former the demind is urgent and oust must be met j gralin in this territory has at times within I 1 the past few years been looked upon as a thing thins of scarcely any value its market value at other times has been far in advance ot of ig Is today to day in consequence of ita its extreme giar siar scarcity city As an instance of what money value is placed upon absolute necessaries under certain cartain circus circumstances it may not beun benn be unapt ta i pt to bote quote that at the gleffe bieg bleg of lon don derry sixty cents were paid for a lipome one dollar and twenty cents for a 2 rat and about give fire dollars for a small email dead do dog in the language of job all that a man mm hath bath will he give for his life the moral to be deduced from this Is I 1 that the policy which haa baa been kept before the tho people of this territory for the las seventeen years is the only wise one for a people situated aa as we are we must cultivate the earth i that we may live if it we woud be powerful we mast husband the fruits of our oar toil toll that we may become wealthy and they tho who haye have steadfastly acted on this policy will as surely reap the fruita fruits growing from it as that they who pursued a different co course urse will fail to gain the very object they had in view it is the natural result of obedience to a law which the circumstances around ua us calls into acton |
