Show JOHN SHIRMAN SHERMAN and the gold bugs are now contending that the price of silver cannot be raised by legislation that its value is determined by the law of supply and demand this indeed is ia a strange position for a protectionist to assume they ha have e for years been contending 09 that the law of a protective tariff would raise the value of all 0 of our products and give higher wages to the working men now they suddenly discover that supply and demand is what regulates values if this is not a case of deathbed death bed repentance pen tance then we never heard of one of f all the commodities on this earth the money metals are an the only oaly ones that are am affected b by y legislation tor for the simple reason that the value of both gold and silver yer are an created by act of law if a protective tariff law raises the price of a pound of iron why can not a friendly law rai raise se the 1 price 7 1 0 of f an ounce oun ce of silver if unfriendly n e nd I 1 y legislation depreciates the value of f I 1 all our manufactured articles and the price of labor why does not unfriendly legislation toward silver cause its value to shrink and depreciate preci ate please answer bv return ma mail I 1 il and oblige ZD the american people is ona on a old basis her gold bonds are worth less than twenty five cents on the dollar this proves that mexico being on a silver basis and whose dollar is worth only fifty cents is a poorer country than portugal figures 1 never lie see |