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Show thpy propo.e to ki-op up to thn rail, they ran not, nor will tlioy, pimsnnt to (iiiiiilciiiuu'o in any way perversion of history. Sued imlii:y is in itself most L'.v'i'iitiully lui'l ami riinnot, tliorefoic, stili-rrvo a jfooil 1'inl, lint as'nlo from liial fuel we ailvocatos of five i-olna(i' liave truth upon o;irsiilo ami the trntli prnprrly pro.-i'iili'il anii argued licforo ; that uvr;i triliiuial, tin: people, will i iirry I he il ty sooner or later. Wo are prinupti'ii lo make these re-i re-i murks al'ler perusal of the Salt I.nkn j Trihnnr. of yestenlay, ill which il is slateil lhat "Franee Is a binietalllt ; eoDiitry." Now that statement is mis- leailinj;- Franee is not now, nor has j he been, slrielly xpeakiiiR, a lilnietal-I lilnietal-I list eonnt rv since aliout the year lfjTI. i It was in thai year, if we are not nils-I nils-I taken, that the J.aliii inonelary union was fori 1 of these Furopeaii nations: Franco, lU'lpinm. Holland, Switzerland and Italy, and the. agreement between them nt the time tho union was formed resulted in. not unlimited, unlim-ited, but in restricted, eoiinij'f of silver. It is true that both old nnd silver are full legal tender for the payment pay-ment of debts in France, the same as is Kuld, silver and greenback dollar in our nation today, but thai doesn't alter the fact that in this matter of coinage In little Franco relegated silver to tho background then ami that she still keeps it I here. The fact is, France followed in the wake of Knglund iu ( relegating silver to the rear. ANKNT I'HKK COIXAGK. Upon the matter of free coinage, The Times is not at all in accord with tho president; still it must admit that he argues it most ably from a goldito standpoint. The Times believes now, as it has all along, that the position of those two eminent men, Benjamin Harbison and (iitovEit Cleveland, on the silver question, is altogether wrong; still in all charity it is free to confess its conviction that the mistaken ideas of both concerning it have been prompted by motives the least calculated calculat-ed upon to mislead, or to deceive, their fellow countrymen. Bias and prejudice, preju-dice, so much engendered by affiliation politically and by social ties, naturally make man oblivious to the lessons of experience and to the teachings of his- ! tory, and this reflection causes us to I deplore the fact that so many of the eminent men of the east of both polit-j ical parties cannot, apparently, treat I the matter of free coinage squarely ! upon its merits as a most important economic question, which must be solved ultimately by righting the wrong perpetrated by tho demonetization of silver in 1H?;L In the campaign of education, however, how-ever, which the advocates of free coinage coin-age are now engaged in, aud which i |
