Show f Who Are tile Bobbers An eastern Republican organ Which is very rabid on the silver question regard inK producers of the white metal as so r many robbera of tUo public treasury thus attacks tho sellers of silver bullion to tho government under the Sherman law I Tney hold the weapons at Uncle Sams fhcat and compel him to fork over the diflorcnco between one dollar find twenty nine cents and eightyfour cents which they put into their pockets not in the inform of silver mind you but in good M bard gold worth its face value the wide world over This worshippar of the yellw deity Mems to be under the impression that silver is sold to the government at its i coined value instead of at the market rates And yet the dally dispatches which it publishes bear the tidings that the treasury department is haggling with thos who have silver to sell in order to securftTjnrchases as required by the law atthe very lowest current prices Not ven eightyfour but seventytwo cents per ounce Jias been paid by the government govern-ment Jately Where then is the stand anddelfrer demand of the silver men n CHEho same paper goes on to ay < > 59 During the past eleven months we have c J f z c f 1 r been forced by the SHEHMATT act to issue I fortynine million dollars of treasury notes in payment of silver bullion that we didnt want anyhow and that if we had wanted it we could have gone out in the open market and bought at nearly I onethird less than the price we paid Well if that were true it is not the fault otthe silver men They did not < < want t1 e FREEMAN law It was passed to prevent tho passage of a law which wpnd J have been acceptable to them and for the welfare of the country But teethe tee-the country have paid just what would have had to be paid lathe open market mar-ket for the silver which the SHERMAN law requires to be purchased monthly no more no less It is by such misleading statements as those we have quoted that a prejudice is being worked up against silver and silver men as though they were defrauding defraud-ing the nation and making themselves rich at the publio expense It is told to the people Of the east that silver can be produced for twentyfive pents an ounce and a great many people believe it They need enlightment In the large majority of instances silver sil-ver mining cannot be carried on at a profit when silver Is below seventyfive cents an oupce and if the white metal does not take a speedy rise that will bp emphasized by the closing down of many more mines and the shutting off from the market mar-ket of large quantities of silver This may have a beneficial effect not only in convincing the old theorists that they have been in gross error on this question but in creating n demand for the white metal which will raise it to a living price on tliQ market However It is not the personal benefit of silver producers that the agitation for silver money has in view It is the needs of tha country for more money the deliverance de-liverance of the debtor class from the grasp of the creditor class and the betterment bet-terment of the qonditton of agriculturists who under the cruel rule of gold are gaining little more than half the value of their commodities The silver miners are suffering with all ether producers by the prevalent monetary system and if there are any robbers under it it is the speculators specula-tors in gold |