Show CHAJVDIJERS SILVER BILL That bill of Chandlers is exactly inline line with his famous letter of OctoberS October-S last to Booth M Malone chairman and T C Clayton secretary of the Republican State League of Colorado a letter that was heralded over the West to show what a great friend of silver the Republican party was and how Chandler was its champion He declared that the free coinage of slIver slI-ver by the United States alone at this time cannot be brought about Clearly the wish was father to the thought Why it cannot be brought about he did not say His bill shows he thinks we must wait on the initiative of the nations most hostile to pilver Chandler is a true bimetallist like most of his party and your true bimetallist bi-metallist must of necessity be a friend of silver He defined the hope for silver held out by these bimetallists It Is well to recall this hope in his own words As practical men bimetallists will only demand 1 that the decline in silver bullion shall be stopped by a decision that it shall be made to become be-come as soon as possible a part of the standard money of the world equal at the agreed ratio to gold 2 that it shall be made to gradually rise in value and 3 that its restoration to full equality with gold shall be achieved within a period somewhat I shorter than the twenty years during which demonetization has been making its deadly progress This work can and will be accomplished by the Republican party if it is placed and kept initia tlonal power What joy what bliss what dreams of wealth that promise will bring to the miner as lie rests on his hard couch in his log cabin on the Icne mountains side How beautifully the Senators letter and his bill dovetail What the country needs is the free and independent coinage of silver regardless regard-less of action by any other nation How true spoke Senator John P Jones when he said There is no hope for silver in the Republican party BOB INGERSOLL says that vivisection Is the shame and disgrace of science Yet Bob never hesitated to pull Moses I to pieces |