Show I 0 IF WE HAD FREE COINAGE Every nation in Europe will be glad of a chance to sell us 52 cents worth of silver for 100 cents Thats what the Bryan platform invites them to do says the Chicago TimesHerald Very likely that is the case but will every or any nation in Europe be able to do it The American people have generally gener-ally been accounted a shrewd people able to barter and sell with any other people anywhere Is it reasonable to think that they will give one hundred cents for fiftytwo cents We think not ncr does anyone else think so who really thinks The Bryan platform plat-form invites them to do no such thing and the TimesHerald knows it doesnt The country is assured by the gold press and men that if we had free coinage of silver all the gold in the country would either be hoarded or sent abroad If such were the case then foreigners bringing their silver to this country could not expect to get gold for it They could get it coined and when coined could and would exchange it for the products > of i the country If practically all the silver sil-ver of the world came to this country would not that fact alone enhance Ito It I Ito 1 I-to the par value of gold that is at the present legal ratio The moment it i was seen that silver was flowing to thej United States the demand for it In j j those countries from which it was 1 flowing would Immediately increase I with the necessary consequence that i its price would rise The only circum j I stances und nohh thl 11 n + I vu uu u the case would be where the supply of gold Is so abundant that there would be no place whatever for silver in the monetary system This law of supply and demand as regards money Is one that will work both ways as well with silver as with gold WTan all the silver of the world comes to the United States we may be very sure that the world will very soon be coming after It i Let the silver come j |