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Newspaper
Silver State
Location
Winnemucca, Nevada, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1895
Page
2
The notice outlines subscription options including one year mail delivery for 4600 and carrier delivery at 2 cents per week. It also lists advertising rates with a square ten lines for first insertion at 250, subsequent insertions at 100, and liberal reductions for regular advertisers.
A Washington D C weekly silver paper edited by Senator William M Stewart promotes remonetization of silver. It features 28 columns of arguments by leading writers and aims to enlighten Americans about silver and the financial policy battle with England. Subscriptions are one dollar per year, with calls to send for the Siler Knight and circulate it widely.
Under the caption Por Sale the Coming Nation offers the United States as the best piece of paying property on earth with a population of 70 million mostly foots. It notes five thousand million dollars in mortgages and bonds, implying sale to any potentate with money and power. Inhabitants are described as law abiding disarmed and tax accepting. Reasons given: domestic trouble over the gold standard and a certain goddess.
Buyer warned that the plant transfer carries all risks with no revolution threat, as inhabitants are hypnotized by liberty-on-the-brain. Property must be sold and payment made before March 4, 1897. Apply to the agent in charge, Washington, D. C., U. S. A.
The Reno Journal notes that Nevada goldbug papers copy disparaging remarks from external free coinage publications. A New York Mercury poll reports 36 716 votes for free coinage and 1966 against it, suggesting the silver cause is dying even in goldbug strongholds.
An army lieutenant and a squad warn all settlers on government reserves in Port Townsend Washington to vacate by September 15. The action puts about 15,000 homes at risk of loss, as residents face displacement and the removal order impacts a large local population.
The New York World lists Li Hung Chang, John D. Rockefeller, Duke of Westminster, Colonel North, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Woh Qua as the wealthiest men, totaling about 1.08 billion dollars. It notes wealth brings little lasting happiness and contrasts royal fortune with common comfort, while mentioning Woh Qua as a Canton tea merchant.
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