Show CURRENCY REFORMAt REFORM-At the present time the attention of the country is engrossed with the tariff tar-iff and will be until it Is settled or rather reconstructed But It is not so engrossed wjth this question but that the cues On of the reform ot the currency cur-rency does not obtrude itself When It does so obtrmle itself it takes inmost in-most instances the form of a discus sroq of the retirement of the STOPn backs Tlius a Washington snecial to a Denver paper says that Senator Mantle Man-tle of Montana speaking of the mission of Senator Wolcott the other day said that international bimetallism bimetal-lism could never be accomplished and that the Republicans would next turn their attention toward retiring greenbacks green-backs they would have to do something some-thing to divert the people The tariff would not restore prosperity and they would then claim that the Greenbacks would have to be retired before good times could be brought about Senator Cannon who sat bv said that there was no doubt that the Dingley policv was to increase the revenue to such an i extent that the greenbacks would be i stacked un in the treasury It was I known that the greenbacks could not be retired by law Senator Mantle was most probably right in what he said about the accomplishment accom-plishment of international bimetallism at least until some great commercial nation undertakes to set UD bimetallism bimetal-lism that is the free and unlimited coinage of both gold and silver alone and without waiting for any other nation na-tion but it is by no means so certain that the Republican party will turn Its attention to the retirement of the greenbacks The party seems to regard re-gard the greenbacks as the most precious pre-cious heritage of the war more precious almost than a restored Union Yet notwithstanding not-withstanding this fact everything points to the retirement of the greenbacks green-backs as the next great point of attack at-tack in the political field It is impossible impos-sible to believe that Senator Cannon is right when he says if he is correctly reported that the Dingley policy is to increase the revenue to such an extent ex-tent that the greenbacks will be stacke3 up in the treasury There is nothing in the Dinsley bill that warrants any such statement In fact so inadequate was that bill considered as a revenue producer bv the senate that it was amended with a view solely to the raisin rais-In of more revenue This was the reason rea-son for the amendment providing for an increase in the tax on beer and a tax on tea both purely revenue taxes the latter a distinctively free trade one And all this diametrically opposed op-posed to the Dingley policy There is no good reason why the greenbacks should not be retired It is often said in answer to those who urge their retirement that such action would contract the currency It would not They being nothing but promises to pay the government is under the ne I cessity of keeping a gold relemption fund on hand for the purpose of taking them up whenever presented If their retirement were authorized the government gov-ernment would replace every dollar with gold There would simply b I < a change in the quality of the circulating medium The tariff question readjusted that of currency reform can scarcely be prevented pre-vented from coming to the fore And I the currency question includes all forms of currency |