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Show It Is very curious how Impudence and error combined can nliow n very plain situation to become complicated riio tteaty of the powers with f'hlna Plainly suya that tho Indemnity Is to ho paid In Halkwan tuels, which Is a silver slug, or weight Tho foreign Ministers are now claiming thnt the payment shoul 1 bo m ,de In s,old. nt the. ratio which tho Halkwan lad l,ro to gold nt tho time nf tho treaty, iho Clilncso niturnlly resist thla, nnd point to tho jliin provision of tho treaty, which docs nn mention fold or a ratio, or tho commutation nf sllvct Tor gold or Mill for silver It says simply und solely tint tho Indemnity la tn bn paid In so many Halkwan taels Recause Ihe ( hlnoso resist lids transmutation lemnnl the Rochester Dem. rnt und Chronicle accuse them of ways that nre dark and tricks thta nre vain" Rut we think the shoe Is on the other foot, It is tho Chinaman tint Is entitle 1 to that gib. If silvei had risen Instead ot fallen there would hnvo been no do-iinnil do-iinnil for gold and ns It Is, the de-maul de-maul is wholly iiuwrirnntod |