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SIXTEEN TO ONE
An expert writer, who is familiar with the state of ^
affairs in silver using and silver producing countries, says
there are sixteen reasons assigned for the extraordinary
rise in the price of the white metal, whereas there is
essentially but the one metal to meet these sixteen de
mands—a new statement of the doctrine of sixteen to
one.
1. There is a gathering in of all available gold
everywhere, with the heavy drain to this counti\. As
gold leaves there is the enforced use ol silver.
2. The new British paper, war money or notes, the
equivalent of $2.59 and $5 American money, are of too
high denominations for the bulk of the population, and
there is consequent call for smaller silver currency..
3. There is process of hoarding of silver money in
all silver using countries, and in those countries which
have been depleted of their gold.
4. There is prospect of the indefinite continuance
of these conditions.
5. The silver requirements of India have been in
creased by the war.
6. There is a shortage of the national silver reserve;
in the French treasury which occurred by reductions dur
ing the first two years of the war. To restore that short
age increases the demand.
7. On the western war front paper money is unpop
ular. The troops demand a metal money, and that means |
silver.
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8. There is increasing American need ox silver Duir
lion for subsidiary coinage.
9. The very high prices now prevailing in the Asi
atic world are a greatly increased drain on silver.
10. All the financing of the English armies in the
East and of the English trade in the Persian gulf, Meso
potamia, East Africa and Egypt is on a silver basis.
11. Unsettled conditions in Mexico for nearly five
years have deprived the world of one of its chief sources!
of silver supply. j
12. The extensive shutting down of copper mines in
this country has made a further material reduction in the
output of silver.
13. I. W. \Y. agitation and its strike effect has cut
into the mining of silver and into its refining and trans
portation.
14. The increased price of chemicals which form an
essential part of the refining process, difficulty in getting,
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crude oil and the greater cost and delay in transportation
have all had their effect.
15. The entrance of China into the war has stimu
lated activities in that country which are necessarily con
ducted on a silver basis.
16. There has been an exceedingly favorable crop
vear in the Orient, which means greater trade and a fur
ther demand for silver.
Some of these reasons are as attenuated as some of
the tenets of the old doctrine were said to have been. Rut
on the whole they furnish an interesting summary.
Alaska day will be celebrated at the Seward public
school next Thursday and besides the students, all who
can comfortably crowd into the assembly room should be
there. Alaska Day means much to us here in the north and
will mean much more in the future.
“Pompadour Bob” is the way some of the papers re
fer to LaFolette. We would suggest Pumpernickel Bob.
In these times of steadily climbing prices, it is an item
of sweet solace to learn that sugar is to be cheaper.
The Kaiser’s volubility concerning Riga is equalled
only by his reticence concerning Verdun.—(Charleston
News and Courier.)
G.W. PALMER
KNIK, ALASKA
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