Show SILVER Those Republican mine ownotsand thoso Republican miners who shouted themselves bourse when Congress passed a silver bill which had been carefully drawn to suit the enemies of silver are singing very low nowadays and the Republican newspapers I which in their ignorance were a few weeks ago taking great credit to the party for the new law are keeping discreetly silent since they have discovered their blind patriotism has ied them into making apes of themselves them-selves That is to say such of them is profess pro-fess decency are keeping silent though I others are brazenly clinging to their error and insisting that the law is a good one These latter journals are conducted on the I principle that it shows weakness and iznor t f unco to confess a mistake On Monday the government paid a dollar j an ounce for silver or twenty i nine cents less than the metal is worth I when stamped with the eagle and the head of the goddess Perhaps the price will bo higher tomorrow or next week and perhaps per-haps it will bo lower this will all depend on what will best please the speculators the price being fixed by them every day and at such a figure as will make the most money for them Isnt it a shame that the American Congress through ignorance or corruption should pass such laws as the one which makes silver the football of a handful of men whose headquarters are in Vail street I |