Show THE SILVER LINING with prices for lead and copper receding rapidly from overproduction over production a condition brought about by the mining interests desire to uphold their promise to supply the necessary sinews of war and with tungsten manganese and other so called vs minerals brought suddenly into competition unete i labor the with cheap foreign of i 3 prosperity of silver alver and its promise seem to higher rating in the price column to a choul clou supply the traditional lining the west it is expected which hangs over that government control of the price WM w end within the month which will allow t law of supply and demand to tare take ard 1 upward tre course and that means an unwar for an indefinite period metal letau ea silver is the one necessary essary i of 0 troubles bles brou trou capt gold which now has P over overs own of which there is not an h P at the end of the war strange nillance lance of fil have been recorded in the world iced since ance thia the european struggle coninie dincol th the e mid and not the least of these was after a all there ery by the east that perhaps the was something besides wind the elli of pleas of the 16 to I 1 advocates fro oh that tha tsi silver admitted ia it is apner generally ally icat es the comstock saved the united facts were i the civil war and if the true known it probably would be foslid fou true that the Anie aped and d to t melted tut dollars which were not only india iii m 1918 prevented 11 9 co revolution there with its far reacel reaca r j ifould quen ces tnt contingent con contingency ey aou COLT co the spark to a conflagration bained with germanys germanas Germ anys activities would have raged for years those dollars were taken from the only available reservoir in the v world orld but they have been swallowed up in the sink of india and never will return they must be replaced from the mines and the task is not as simple as it looks it is known that the mints of the entente allies since 1914 have been coining each year new silver coin exceeding by to ounces the entire worlds production of new metal for the same period the latter averages ounces yearly including of course ounces which are required for industry and the arts and still the currency of many nations is inflated until they practically are on a paper basis the figures prove the reason for the expected enhancement in the price of silver and they also show that it will be a slow process replacing the withdrawals from the united states treasury silver which is necessary as backing for our silver certificates the white metal again should sell around an ounce but the ratio of 16 to 1 is doubtful because gold also may have its day in the near future |