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Show We Are All Interested In commenting on the silver problem, Rene Leon recently said, "So long as these two precious metals (gold and silver) are going to be used for money we must restore the equilibrium between them. Silver is the poor man's gold." Mho drop in the value of silver has damaged the purchasing pow-; pow-; r of half the world's people. It has been a factor in bringing on, and maintaining, poor business conditions, and has made international inter-national trade chaotic. It is a practical problem that affects us all. Present efforts to restore the value of silver and establish a fair relation between it and gold, should carry with them the hopes for success of all the countries coun-tries of the world. No nation will: profit more by improved condi- tions for metal mining than the United States, for it is one of our ;reat employing and tax-paying industries. I |