Show MASSACHUSETTS ON SILVER The Massachusetts Republican platform opposes free silver and says in view ol the decline in the price of bullion purchases pur-chases by the treasury and the issue of certificates cer-tificates thereon should be suspended for a lime This would express the sentiments senti-ments of tho party if it read suspended t for all time The Republican party of Massachusetts is the rich mans party Its opposition to silver coinage is very natural thoroughly selfish and easily explicable Massachusetts is the center of New England Eng-land whore 1000000000 of western indebtedness in-debtedness is held and it is a matter of considerable concern to the holders of this indebtedness whether it shall be paid in silver worth only one hundred cents on the dollar or in gold worth ono hundred and thirty If the gold standard can be maintained main-tained it will permit New England creditors credit-ors to squeeze 300000000 more out of these western debtors than they are entitled to Hero is a reason why the monied interest o f Massachusetts and the northeast is so I seriously hostile to silver coinage |