Show TIlE BIMETALLIC TOIOX ADDRESS The Herald hopes Its readers have perused the address of the silver conference con-ference or rather the Bimetallic Union to the people of the United States If not < they should get Saturday Sat-urday mornings Herald and read every sentence of that address Ve do not believe there is an argument or statement in it that can be successfully suc-cessfully disputed It should be circulated cir-culated in every part of the country It is devoid of the exaggerations which sometimes attend silver addresses addres-ses and avoids those irritating and often groundless charges made against men who do not agree with the advocates advo-cates of free silver coinage There Is a candor and calmness about the address which will recommend recom-mend it to thoughtful people everywhere every-where The executive committee should see that it reaches the people of the east There is little need for its distribution very widely in the west I except to furnish the friends of silver with plain and simple reasons for the i Independent adoption of free silver I coinage by the United States without I waiting for the movements of other nations I One thing the people of the east I need enlightening about is the benefits bene-fits that will come from true bimetallism bimetal-lism to the whole country as distinguished distin-guished from the interests cf the silver sil-ver mining regions The idea that the I silver movement Is simply to find a j I market for silver which will increase I its price and thus enrich the mine owners of the west has been diligently i i diligent-ly fostered in the minds of the masses j It must be dispelled by the light of truth and the address will help In that good work To hear men like Professor Lawrence Law-rence Laughlin one would suppose that the restoration of prosperity to the silver mining industry would be a I capital crime If mines that havs been closed down on account of the i depreciation in the silver market should be reopened and worked at a profit would that be a source of evil to anybody Is not the prosperity of every legitimate industry of magnitude magni-tude a general benefit to the community commu-nity The increase of the silver product pro-duct must surely be for the common welfare at any rate it cannot be a public calamity But it will be asked by the gold enthusiast en-thusiast will not the coining of fifty cents worth of silver into a hundred cent dollar prove a source of boundless bound-less wealth to the silver baron at the expense of the nation The answer an-swer no The nation will be bene fitted by the increase of metallic money which will be the consequence of free silver coinage and while a few mines which can produce silver at the present low market price will be benefitted it will not be at the expense ex-pense of the nation but the nation I will derive the greater benefit Why should it be a crime if the mines now shut down are started up again any more than it Is a crime for other depressed industries of the country to be revived wages raised and business prospered Is it an evil for silver to be produced at a profit and a virtue to produce gold at a greater profit Why should people rejoice in the rise of the price of corn or cotton and weep over the prospect pros-pect of a rise In the price of silver But as shown In the address the story that free silver coinage is advocated ad-vocated in the interest of silver miners Is not true Most of the great advocates of restoring the white mezal to its rightful position as money have no personal interest in or connection with mining interests but are striving for the welfare of the nation The retort could justly be made that the advocates of gold mono i metallism are sold to the banking and I gold speculating interests But that should be avoided Crimination and recrimination must be banished from the serious consideration of the grave question that confronts the country and it is gratifying to see that the Bimetallic Union in its excellent address ad-dress to the people avoids attacking the motives of the opponents of silver sil-ver and simply presents the truth in language that cannot be mistaken answes the fifty cent dollar fallacy exposes other egregious errors of the monometallists and preserves that dignity which belongs to a righteous cause The Bimetallic Union is an appropriate appro-priate name for the association formed form-ed through the holding of the silver conference It is a standing notice that silver monometallism is not proposed pro-posed in the place of gold monomet allism While this is a silver organiza zatlon because its membsrs want sliver sli-ver restored as a money metal it does not want to reject gold or displace it from coinage rights or put silver in its stead The free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to 1 Is demanded ana the silvsr workers want tha and I nothing ress Let the Bimetallic Union I send its views to every corner of the country and It will be found that the adage Is right Truth is mighty and will prevail I |