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Established 1924
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The Rejection of 16 to 1 Silver
The failure of the Wheeler
bill to pass the Senate, while
disappointing to the hopes of
many silver advocates, was not
unexpected by those who have
followed closely the trend of
silver discussions during the
past two years. Senate object
ion to the Wheeler measure
was unquestionably based not
so much upon opposition to
use of silver as a supporting
monetary medium as to the
proposal to place a definite
and fixed value upon that com
modity.
Disinclination to establish a
fixed ratio with gold has been
disclosed by many of the most
outstanding silver advocates,
among them Senator Pittman,
whose own much discussed sil
ver measure merely provides
for purchase of silver for mon
etary purposes at the prevail
ing market price. This reluct
ance is clearly indicated by
other outstanding silver pro
ponents and apparently has its
roots in doubts as to the effects
such action would have abroad
and upon our foreign relations
and policies.
The imminence of the pro
jected world economic confer
ence, which is pledged to dis
cuss silver from an internation
al standpoint, was doubtless
also a factor in the rejection of
a plan which would tend to
establish a precedent value
which might seriously embar
ass or otherwise influence the
conference negotiations.
At all events the defeat of
the Wheeler bill does not mean
the death of the silver issue in
the United States. The issue
before the Senate was not
whether silver should or should
not be employed as a mone
tary medium but whether the
price should be fixed ,on the
basis of sixteen parts of silver
equaling in value one part of
gold.
Inasmuch as this question is
to become a matter for world
wide consideration soon, it ap
pears distinctly inadvisable for
the United States to undertake
premature action to establish a
price for the white metal.. If
this fails there is still every op
portunity for the United States
to take such independent act
ion on the queition as may best
suit our convenience and de
sires.
In the defeat of the 16 to 1
j proposal the silver issue has by
no means met its Waterloo. It
is still one of the largest and
most important questions be
fore the American people ow
ing to its bearing on the quest
ion of currency inflation and
the bolstering up of our shaky
currency structure and must be
fully resolved on that basis be
fore the silver question can be
come a dead issue in this nat
ion.
Just for Fun
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Another paradox is that
while a woman cannot run as
fast as a man, she usually
catches him somehow.
Love’s young dream is great
while it lasts, but it sometimes
ends in a nightmare
If some practical farm relief
is ever enacted it will be real
news.
Anyway those technocracy
fellows succeeded in coining
one of the ten ugliest words.
Surely we ought to free the
Philippines. We have deprived
those little brown brothers of
their revolutions long enough.
The former Kaiser still in
sists that he did not start the
World War. Be that as it may,
we will concede that he didn’t
finish it.
Imitating Amos n’ Andy,
some economists are now advo
cating “reflation.” But if it
will end the “repression” we
are for it.
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INTERESTING NOTES
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The longest electrified rail
way in the British Empire is a
200 mile stretch in the Union of
South Africa.
! A vacuum container recently
; exhibited in Europe is said to
keep ice cream frozen for at
j least twelve hours without ice
or other freezing material.
The Carnegie Commission
has awarded nearly 2,500 med
als and more than $4,000,000
in monej for deeds of valor
since 1904.
An entire family of a new
race of prehistoric men who
lived about 40 to 50,000 years
ago has been discovered in
caves near Mount Carmel, in
southern Palestine, according
to word received in London by
Sir Arthur Keith, anthropolo
gist.
TEN YEARS OR SO AGO
i From the Hyder, Alaska, Miner
December 23, 1922.
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Jack Fitzgerald, manager of
the Titan, brought clown $19
donated by the crew at the
mine for the Hyder kiddies’
Christmas tree.
T. T. Thompson, who brought
the first cows to Hyder in the
spring of 1920, has sold his da
iry business to Ben Oien and
left Saturday for Oregon.
The annual birthday cele
bration of the Ocean View Ho
tel will be held on the night of
January 29. There will be
dancing and a big feed, put on
in Bill Tooth’s own inimitable
style.
The case of Wm. McGrew vs
Billie LaHurr and Mrs. Del.
i Wakefield, tried in the district.
| court at Ketchikan this week,
was decided in favor of the de
fendants.
Articles of incorporation of
the Cripple Creek Mining
Company have been filed in
Juneau, the incorporators be
! ing James Wickersham, J. W.
I Kehoe, Lockie McKinnon, John
W. Frame and Harry Hummel.
The company is organized to
develop the Cripple Creek
group of five claims, nine miles'
from Hyder.
The tunnel on the Titan is
now in 91 feet, with a full face
of live blue quartz that is well
mineralized with iron pyrites
and makes a good grade of
milling ore, according to Jack
Fitzgerald, manager. The tunn
el must be driven about 100
feet more to get under the big
ore shoot that crops on the sur
face.
The committee in charge of
Hyder’s second community
Christmas tree entertainment
have completed their arrange
ments and a night of real en
joyment for old and youngisas
sured. A program will be put
on by the school children, who
are being trained by their
j teacher. Miss Olson. As the
I entertainment is a community
> affair, everyone in the valley
! is expected to be there.
Miss Johanna Porter and
John W. Goughian were mar
ried Saturday evening by U. S.
Commissioner John W. Frame.
Miss Margaret Lobley and
Wm. Murphy were witnesses.
“Jack” Coughlan is one of the
original old-timers of the camp,
having been h,ere since the
start of the first mining excite
ment thirteen years ago. He
erected a number of buildings
in Hyder, including the Hotel
Hyder, of which he is now the
manager. His bride has resid
ed here about two years and of
late has been housekeeper of
the hotel.
FRANK A. METCALF
CIVIL & MINING ENGINEER
U. S. MINERAL SURVEYOR
JUNEAU ALASKA
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