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About The Conservative (Nebraska City, Neb.) 1898-1902 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 9, 1899)
Hbe Conservative * Stntoiiicnt of the Product of Gold nnd Silver in the Republic of Mexico , Revised and Corrected from 1877 to 189 $ . Vnluvs upon Mintage llasls. VEAUS. 1877-78 1878-79 1870-80 1880-81 1881-82 1882-88 1883-84 1884-85 1885-80 1880-87 1887-88 > . 1888-80 1889-00 1800-91. . . ' . 1801-02 1802-03 1803-04 1804-95 1805-00 1890-07 1807-03 Total GOLD. $ 747,000 881,000 042,000 1,018,000 937.000 050,000 1,055,000 914,000 1,020,000 1,047,000 1,031,000 1,040,000 1,100,000 1,150,000 1,275,000 1,400,000 1,425,000 4,750,000 5,475,000 8,500,000 9,025,000 $40,589,000 BILVEU. $24,837,000 25,125,000 20,800,000 20,234,000 29,829,000 29,609,000 81.005,000 83,220,000 84,112,000 84,000,000 84,912,000 40,700,000 41,500,000 48,000,000 45,750,000 48,500,000 47,250,000 64,225,000 51,450,000 (50,088,000 ( 07,525,000 $887,028,000 TOTAL. $25,584,000 20,000,000 27,742,000 80,247,000 80,200,000 80,625,000 82,750,000 84,140,000 85,188,000 85,047,000 85,948,000 41,740,000 42COO,000 44,150,000 47,025,000 49,000,000 48,075,000 58,075,000 50,025,000 00,183,000 77,450,000 $883,017,000 Exhibit of Coinage of Gold , Silver and Copper , in the Republic of Mexico , from the 1st of July , 1873 , to the 30th of June , 1808. YEAllS. 1873-74 . 1874-75. . 1875-70. . 1870-77 . 1877-78. . 1878-70. . 1870-So. . 1880-81. . 1881-82. . 1882-83 1883-84. . 1884-85. 1885-80. . 1880-87. . 1887-88. . 1888-80. . 1880-00. . 1800-01. . 1801-02. . 1802-011. . 1803-04. , 1804-05. , 1805-00. , 1800-07. , 1807-08 , Total. Gold dollars. $ 800,743 802,019 800,401 005,750 001,003 (558,200 521,820 ' 492,0(58 ( 452,500 407,000 828,093 423,250 425,000 410,000 840,820 805,100 243,298 808,000 291,940 801,072 553,978 545,237 505,780 452,474 450,210 $12,473,773 Silver dollars , $18,840,007 10,880,958 10,454,054 21,415,128 22,084,208 22,102,987 24,018,528 24,017,895 25,140,260 24,083,021 25,877,879 25,840,728 25,850,000 25,600,000 26,711,000 25,274,500 24,828,820 24,238,000 25,527,000 27,169,870 80,185,011 27,028,981 22,034,788 19,200,009 21,427,057 $503,801,750 Copper dollrs. $15,000 21,712 8o,051 9,035 41,034 16,800 14,035 42,258 11,972 $203,200 SUMMAHY. Totals : Gold , $12,473,778 ; Silver , $598,304,736 ; Copper , $203,296. Grand total , $610,981,825. Exhibit of the Coinage of Mexico from the Establishment of the Mints in 1037 to the end of the Fiscal year of 1808. COLONIAL EPOCH. Unmilled coin from 1537 to 1731. . Pillar coin 1732 to 1771 Bust Coin 1772 to 1821 INDEPENDENCE. Iturbido'n Imperial Bust 1822-1823 Republic Eagle 1824 to Juno 80,1873 REPUBLIC. Eagle Coin , from July i , 1873 , to Juno 80 , 1808 GOLD. $ 8,497,950 19,889,014 40,891,447 $68,778,411 * 557,392 45,040,628 $45,598,020 $12,473,773 8ILVEU. $752,067,456 441,629,211 888,563,989 $2o82,26o,656 $ iB,575,5 < x ) 740,246,485 $758,822,054 $598,304,756 COPPEIl. $200,000 ' ' ' 'skjs'g'a $542,893 $5.235,177 $ S.235.77 $ 203,296 TOTAL. $760,765,406 461,518,225 929,298,829 $2,151,581,960 $ I9 , 32,96l 790,522,290 $809,655,251 $610,981,825 SUMMARY. Colonial Epoch from 1537 to 1821 , $2,151,581,960 ; Independence from 1822 to 1873 , $809,655- 251 ; Republic from 1873 to 1898 , $610,981,825. Total , $3,572,219,036. JOHN J. VALENTINE , President. PROSPERITY ANI > EXPANSION. No amount of sneer or protest on the part of reluctant demagogues and news papers can longer blind even the "plain people" to the 'fact that , in spite of all hindering influences , prosperity has come again to the people of the United States. The last year equaled in its vast volumes of business any previous records in the commercial and industrial history f- of the country. The strongest men who direct the investment of money unani mously concur in saying that the prosperity of the country is fully re established in all the walks of business Not only this. These same authorities stake their own money , and counse everybody else to stake his money upon the broader proposition , that this re markable prosperity has come to stay t goes for nothing that preachers of the gospel of discontent continue their igno- MJ : ble efforts to stem the resistless force of isiug confidence everywhere which really produces this great blessing to our people and country. A few may isten yet , but even they refuse to heed. Nothing can stop , or even check , the ' / ! < ' mighty wave of business prosperity vhich is bringing our people upon the greatest and most enduring revival of business expansion which they have ever known. Mr. Washington E. Connor , the late Mr. Jay Gould's confidential man and broker , says that the people do not yet ap preciate our present prosperity. It is , he says , just beginning to dawn upon them. Foreigners , who , "two months ago , " could not see our changed conditions , are now keenly alive to the truth about them. < Gov. Roswell Pettibone Flower , one of the greatest and safest of our Amor- can financiers , joins in these opinions of our great business revival. He hesi tates to put a hint to it. There will be periods of decline. "Good times , " says Wall Street's latest king , "will cer- ; ainly be with us BO long as Europe re mains so largely in our debt as she is at present. " And he adds : "The tre mendous balance of trade in our favor has brought so much money into the country that investors do not know what to do with it. * * * Our foreign trade is growing all the time. We manufacture the best goods in the world steel , cotton goods , everything and can undersell foreigners in their own markets. It is not a question of 'dumping' our grain , our meats , and other exports , on foreign markets. They are sought for , and so long as they are sought for to the extent they are now , the balance of trade is bound to be in our favor. " And it is in the face of such a picture , in no way or sense overdrawn , that this great nation is asked , at enormous sac rifices of treasure and human life , to make conquest by force of arms of mil lions of people who are fighting for in dependence that our trade may be ex tended to the Oriental countries a mo tive as base as the result of it all would be , simply wanton and wicked. A republican badges in honor of confederate heroes who fought and fell as men never fought and fell before in defense of what they held to be their sacred rights and freedom , points a strange contiast with the times when every man was denounced from every platform and nearly every pulpit in this section of the Union who dared to deplore the civil war , or who did not vote the republican ticket , as a "south ern sympathizer , " a "rebel , " a 'traitor. "
