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. "