People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1896 — Gold and Silver Mining. [ARTICLE]

Gold and Silver Mining.

There is more good horse sense in the letter of Mr. Evans of Ottumwa, lowa, about natural conditions of mining in the west than anything I have read for a long time. The eastern man' knows nothing about the western mining. The real facts are that this country is a gold and silver producing country- The two are best mined together. With but few exceptions the mines produce both gold and silver. A well equipped mining outfit consists of apparatus and tools aud machinery to mine both metals, and no miner is without all this. When you round up theoutputof both in the entire mining districts, the ratio between these two appears to be struck in the eternal hills.* It’s a law of God. Man’s laws are useless when that higher law is followed. It is very poor logic to legislate against natural conditions and environments. The statesman never does. In this country congress has killed the silver goose that lays the golden egg; for it has stopped the use of silver the mining of which produces gold. The rule'in this country will always be the more silver mined the more gold produced, and vice versa. Let congress keep on legislating against the natural conditions and environments of the people for awhile longer if it wants to create disorder and resistance to its foolish laws. Patriotism is not blind submission to tyranicaflaws plainly unconstitutional. Majorities must learn to stand for constitutional •laws or they will not be in trie majority any length of time"

LUCINS O. WILSON.

Chicago, Sept. 23.

Money that is continually increasingin value is most disastrous in its effects upon all industries. *** , • In carrying on industrial operations, safety requires that the selling price shall not fall below cost of production. * * * With money continually rising prices necessarily continue to fall until profits disappear.