Show STERLING MORTOX TO MILLERS The millers of Nebraska gave a banquet ban-quet in Omaha a few days since and I were addressed by Secretary of Agriculture i Agri-culture Morton Incidentally he touched I touch-ed upon the financial question He said there hould be legislation for the regulation regu-lation of the millers which would put j up the price of cereals so that the farmer far-mer might get 1 worth of flour for 53 I cents vorth of wheat He thought there ought to be a law passed which would compel the millers of the state I to comply wit3i this regardless of what other nations might do i Very facetious that but it is not i argument It is on a par witht the plans of Edward Atkinson to make whisky 1 and cows legal tender When it becomes I be-comes necessary for opponents of free I coinage to resort to such arguments it is an admission that their case Is weak in the extreme The point they overlook or ignore is that from time I immemorial silver has been a money metal and would be today had it not I been that the influence of those who I favored gold alone as a money metal was powerful enough to accomplish its demonetization If there is gold enough I in thejworld for all monetary purposes why is it that gold is being hoarded today Why should there ever be any fear or apprehension that free silver would drive out the gold If there is sufficient gold to supply the demand of the whole world for it for money then if the stock that the United States have went abroad it would have the effect ef-fect to inflate the currency of those countries to which It went and to correspondingly corre-spondingly depreciate it The truth of the matter is there is1 not enough gold to supply the money needs of the world |