Show DttNGELL INTIU nILL We are of tSe opinion thai there is danger to the cause of free silver coinage in the bill introduced by Senator VOOEUEES Not that It hus no good features Not that he intends it as a death blow to silver by any means But it is intended ta clear out of the way the obstacle of the silver purchases and leave to future legislation what shall be I done to maintain the policy of the I United States as to tbe use of gold ands and-s ler as standard money and to coin both gold and silver into money of equal intrinsic Taluo By the way our moaning contemporary ought to have it hot both for the President Presi-dent and the Senate committeemeii VOOKHEES McPHERSON SHERMAN MERRILL ALLISON and ALDKIOH for using the term intrinsic values in reference to gold and silver when they ought to have known that the great philological authority of the Rocky Mountains has decided that neither gold nor silver has any co J tinsio value The danger in t ifi that it meets the views of a ve rge o mber of members mem-bers of both hen S so far < it goes and might on a deat jck be accpted as the best thing to s > had fOT the present While it declrres lu vo of bimetallism it does nothing practical to secure its operation If the bill were passed and signed silver would be in no better posi u tion actually than today It would be tho worse for the throwing of 4500000 ounces a month more on an already depressed de-pressed market It might pave the way for free silver coinage and it might not Probably it vould be thought enough for the present I That would postpone the measure that I free coinage men want tillnc one knows i when The silver men in the Senate will make a mistake if they compromise on the VOOEHBES bill Free coinage of both metals is the grand object in view That is the prize of the mark of the high calling of the silver men in the financial contest They must not lose jjlghft of it The question of ratio is just now not of so j much importance On that there maybe I may-be rational and agreement agree-ment But silver coinage must not be pushed aside postponed or shelved on any consideration This is silvers great opportunity The tide in its affairs is set in and must be taken at the flood or it will go back and the cause may be lost for years |