Show SILVER AD THE VETO I The majority of the people as well 1 as of the newspapers of the country wlll be found endorsing the Presidents I veto of the Bland bill for the coinage I of the socalled seigniorage The gold standard folks are pleased with his I action ac-tion because they do not want any increase i in-crease of silver currency Many of the bimetallists and most of the free silver coinage advocates approve of the veto because they do not want any halfway half-way measures or makeshift expedients expedi-ents If ilr Bland will prepare a straight free silver coinage measure while w edo I e-do not think It can be made successful 1 just yet It i will at least gain the I support sup-port of the advocates of silver and gold I as the money metals of the country and put to a fair test the existing sentiment sen-timent in Congress on the financial I question His present bill cannot be I passed over the Presidents sidents veto nor 1 will It prove satisfactory to any considerable L consid-erable portion of the country if l it I i should prevail I It is useless for partisan papers to try to make political capital against I Mr Cleveland because of this veto for It is in line with his former course on j the silver question and there is no extensive ex-tensive feeling of disapproval concerning I concern-Ing it However it is amusing to note i the changing expressions of some papers pa-pers on this matter For instance this I Is what our morning contemporary contcmporarI said the day before the veto I In this connection we sincerely hope I that President Cleveland will veto the seigniorage bill There is nothing in it I when we come to study itover I And this Is its comment two days I after the veto To us the veto Is a most direct proof of the incompetency of the Executive that has been supplied That Cleveland is a blmetalllst of the kind that does not believe in the unit un-it iii r ijf limited coinage of silver Is well known and that he shares the views of a great many financial authorities Is also or ought to be understood And while we consider those views mistaken it is a very poor way to combat them to say that he never as yet studied the elementary principles goyernlng the subject At present he Is with the majority but It Is to be hoped that before be-fore long the tide of public sentiment will be overwhelming in the other direction di-rection The vote on the silver purchase repeal re-peal bill and the refusal to complicate it with a free silver coinage provision was no fair test of the congressional sentiment as to silver An Independent free coinage bill would provide such a test and Bland would do well to let the country see where the representatives representa-tives of the people stand on the most important issue of the times |