Show the financial commission we feel encouraged with the appointment of the commission on international bimetallism and one reason for that encouragement is that the deseret news has seen fit to deprecate the movement with singular futurity the church organ has been decidedly wrong in all its speculations on national politics of late ever since the time that the news was flauding lauding brave billy bryan and speaking cf hon frank J cannon as of seeming poetic and prophetic destiny it has bean guessing wrong as the final re bulan showed on the financial policy our contemporary now tells us that it is idle to speculate at this time on aliat the commissioners will be able to accomplish but it nevertheless pro coeds at once to speculate as follows lol lows undoubtedly they will in their support of the causa of en counter influences to those which prevailed in the last at conference held at brussels a few jee ra ago that is tho commissioners agreed to disa erea thia means in every auch caes that BO far from hilyer being advanced from it now occupies and for moro than twenty years haa occupied ia 13 mere pronouncedly dei graded tann if hesitation recording it had not taken place it is quite apparent now in the light of the past political blunder of the people in the defeat of gen har rigon that had he been elected reelected re balver would have gained favorable international ter recognition at the brussels congress As the newa remarks the man of all men who was expected to be entirely hostile and in no degree compromising in his position baron rothschild was about the most moderate of any of the european delegates regarding the treatment to be accorded the white metal he was willing to agree to the free coinage of silver as a subsidiary coin with full debt paying qualities tiet in amounts not our delegates would have accepted that rather than noth ing though they were striving for full recognition of the white metal in tho meantime an adjournment was taken until autumn and after the election in tho united states the colgrass con grass convened again Then our delegates were not prepared to act for they did not know what would be the policy of the president elect and they asked for a further adjournment until the following spring when president cleveland went into office he discountenanced all negotiations and the congress met again simply to adjourn sine die it was tha adverse silver sentiment of our government as then constituted that nullified the whole movement in favor of international bimetallism now a party is again in power friendly to silver and president mc Kin leys administration can be trusted to back the zealous endeavors of the able ailder advocates named as commissioners the seeds sown at the brussels congress have been sprouting in the political soil of the old world and we believe that this country is nearer to bimetallism today than the Br imagine we have high hopes that the commissioners will take up tho work where the former congress left off and secure tree coinage of silver in the only wiy that it can be maintained on a parity with gold viz by international agreement |