Show information STANDARD the following question has annoyed me a great deal and I 1 hope you will deem it worthy of an answer through your editorials sil berat quotation with free connace of silver at 16 u 1 it will be worth per oz this increase of almost per cent would be eagerly grasped by speculators and capa lists further rich all the silver mines and bullion will not their wealth be doubled and how will the people and workmen be benefited the wadea of the workmen will not be increased at any rate not doubled now in this case will not the rich be made richer and in proportion the poor be made poorer sherein wi 1 the people be benefited oden city july the gentleman who contributes the above ie a mckinley republican after information which ia a most wholesome sign that be will not long remain a mc Kinle he begins by recognizing what silver men claim that would double the value of the bullion by at fording silver an unrestricted market and further supports their contention by telling how eager speculators and capitalists would be to obtain the coveted article demand whether made by speculators or otherwise is what gives any article value when the supply is limited silver like gold is limited in quantity and difficult to obtain so when the united states by operine ite mints would absorb the produced in this coultry try the price would rise to par while the prospector could get one ounce of bullion coined into at the united states mints neither latora nor capitalists could obtain his silver for less rich men do not own all the eilber mines the silver produced from prospect holes and small claims and by etc is fully equal to the amount obtained from the bonanza mines abo best silver mines in this country today are eardly paying expenses although the rich ore badiea only are being extracted and no development work is being prosecuted if silver was the mine owners would stand the law and the commercial world with gold mine owners if our correspondent ia of the opinion that the extraction of gold from the depths of ther earth makes the rich richer and the poorer then he is justified in the belief that glittering particles of silver from out the depth of acher earth brought forch by toil and patience to be into briffet brif fht lustrous silver dollar fl will also be harmful al they chiae to circulate as money and relieve gead of part of it present overburden The highest facea in tile world have been paid to oar balver miners this coir atry did not know what good wages were until alie sold of california and alie of nevada and utah wore poured rato the lap of the nation the mines of the west not tariff dignified american labor in regard to abe owner or ballion we have often stated there is no accumulated fc of silver bullion in the world except in the united states that minus the is represented in actual circulation by treasury notes circulating at par the people would be benefited in every branch of industry and trade by As the price of aver regulates the market price 0 wheat cot tonetta ton etca rise to par would send wheat to over a bushel and other larm produce to correspondingly high figures rising prices in all alie history of the world have stood for prosperity as surely as descending prices have in turn for poverty it Is hardly necessary iov us to go into an elaborate analysis oi why this is so for we take it that our readers aud our inquisitor inqui eitor will accept these generalizations as almost axiomatic |