Show WOLCOTTS BIMETALLICS MISSION Simply a Device to Postpone Unwelcome Un-welcome Decisions i SO SAYS THE TIMES OF LONDON GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES RUG RISK I Will Not Need a LongContinued Decline of Gold t Bring the Government Gov-ernment Face to Face With the Necessity of Another Loan Six Months Have Passed and McKinley McKin-ley Has Done Nothing London June SThe Times commenting com-menting editorially this morning in a rather serious vein upon Secretary Gages recent declarations as to the r currency says SIx months have passed since Mn McKinley was elected yet nothing has been done to redeem the pledges to which the business world attached the chief importance The uneasiness of the business community seems to have made itself felt in official circles with the result that we have Mr Gages statements which are not much in themselves but have a soothing effect on Wall street I is unfortunate however that 11 McKinley has no convictions favorable to a gold currency and Secretary Gage though sincere cannot go faster than the president As a matter of fact the Wolcott bimetallic mission is nothing but a device for postponing unwelcome un-welcome decisions To outsiders the government of the United States appears ap-pears to be running great risks with a wonderfully light heart I will not need a long continued decline of gold to bring the government face to face with the necessity of another loan President McKinley thinks that everything can be remedied by a high tariff I the proposed duties fail to bring prosperity his natural impulse will be to raise them still higher and any display of strength by the silver Ites will serve to delay still longer the p currency reform desired by the eastern states |