Show agreement senator wolcott has visited gov me kinley and haa been assured of his hearty c o an fn the proposition to call a conference for B real adjustment of the silver question Wa believe win wo believe it will win within the coming fifteen months we believe russia will accept it austria and italy will gladly accept it and then if england dor not accept it in full ahe will open her minta of balyer she will moreover agree that her bank reserves shall be held in part in silver and will iague a five pound ailder note BO whole product of the worlds alnea will tib arand except for codd take tribune it pleases to sec that expression given a modest place among the tribunes Tribune 5 editorial jois he b e ginning orine ablution bl ution of the silver question we have always held dated from the time major mckaley McK a well known bimetallist was nominated on a platform favoring free coinage by international agreement and the mo rewe looke d into ane statistics of ane world the more convinced was quite impossible for this country alone to rf establish free coinage of silver and keep its couii up iff the gold standard of the civilized countries it seemed certain to us that our dollar would be debased by independent free coinage to the 50 cent standard of other silver money nations we believe so still but the silver men of the west insist that free comage by international agreement is a utopian dream they say the creditor nations of the old world will never consent to the free coinage of silver they are suffering from the gold standard quite as much as the united states banks are going ander there as they are here the gold standard is not expansive enough this was clearly shown at the brussels Bruise ls congress and there was a disposition shown there on the part of all but En glands representatives to favor free coinage and even the of london said they would agree to silver coined free as a subsidiary money with debt paying qualities of or that was a big concession and had the united states not gone on to the gold basis by electing cleveland futher concessions would likely have been granted by the money monarchs of the old world with major mckinless McKin leys silver record we cannot see how he can do otherwise than fulfill his promise to the people in his letter of acceptance and reiterated to wolcott free coinage by international agreement will come |