Show I SILVER The little flurry in silver is significant I would not bo i it were confined to this country Our silver law is such that a flurry in tho price of the metal is possible and probable at any time Half a dozen men in Wall street can combine and on any given day can put up or reduce the price of silver 1 few points and by a larger combination they can keep the price up or down for weeks at a time Hence we say that a flurry in the markets of this country alone would mean nothing as to the status of the metal being significant only to the S speculators and the government as a buyer j I But when foreign countries interest themselves them-selves in silver n a money metal and through that interest the price is stimu stmu latcd the sign i healthy being suggestive of the early restoration of silver to it proper place in the coinage system of the world We do not mean by this to express the belief that the United States singlehanded and alone cannot restore re-store silver to its rightful place so far as this country is concerned but i some of the great European powers will join with us the work can be much more speedily spe di accomplished ac-complished and accomplished without causing any disturbance in the commercial word THE HERALD believes with Senator STEWART that the right kind of silver legislation legis-lation can be gotten through the coming Congress and we also believe that it can be put into tho books in spito of President HAitnisoxand the enemies to the metal by which he bos surrounded himself in the administration ad-ministration By the right kind of legislation legisla-tion we mean a law which will place silver upon an equality with gold in our coinage system Anything short of that will bo wrong anything less will continue silver ver as a despised and degraded metal in tho monetary sense A law which leaves to silver any of the elements of commercial commodity which encourages or permits the speculative specula-tive buying or selling of the metal will not mend matters no matter how much or how little silver shall bo coined We believe that if the friends of silver will i frends siver wi demand free coinage of silver and will refuse t accept I ac-cept anything less they will get what they I oak and what the people demand and the United States having restored the metal to Its position in our money system it will not be long before other countries will follow in our footsteps The excitement mentioned in our telegrams tele-grams bodes well for silver |