Show j TRUCK AVOIIDS IVERtS NEVER SPOKEN When Bismarck stated that independent Inde-pendent action by the United States would force International bimetallism he revealed a thorough knowledge of the situation and made a statement I which no gold standard advocate in this or any other country dare attempt to contradict This statement has been mode repeatedty by the American press and by eminent American statesmen but It is doubly significant when it comes from one of the two great men of the eastern continent at the sound of whose voice all Europe ytcps to listen Nothing can be more logical and true than that independent action by the United States will force I an international agreement to admit silver to free and unlimited coinage To substantiate thlfe declaration i is only necessary to point ou what the effect would be on international trade I would a once establish close commercial commer-cial relations between the United States and many countries that use silver Right at the start the United States would cut into the trade of England Germany and France and would divert such a volume of traffic from those countries as to leave them no recourse but a similar standard of money They I would either have to adopt the same 1 Ul uau uu Unnll UII I hope to stay this great loss of trade The country that would first feel the I effects and suffer most by reason of amore a-more extensive merchant marine is Great Britain That is the one country I that stands in the way of a international interna-tional agreement and It would be the first country to sue for admission to I the realm of bimetallism the mont bimetallism becomes an established policy I pol-icy of the United States With bimetallism bi-metallism in the United States England Eng-land could only maintain her present I large commercial trade by adopting the same syem Englands change of pol I icy would be immediately followed by f France Germany and all the great commercial I com-mercial nations of the world and the I result would be that silver like gold I I would become standard and basal currency cur-rency the world over Therefore Bismarck I BIs-marck and all others speak prophetically propheti-cally and logically when they say that II independent action by the United States would force international bimetallism I I is just i a true anti just ag i logical on the other Hand that wtlihcnit Independent action iby the I United States international bimetallism will never be established For England Eng-land which is profiting by the present financial policy of this country and upon whose action the action of the other great powers depends will never release her until compelled to I releae grasp unti cmpeled |