Show WHY way THE DISTRUST our mo ruing contemporary thinks the ilia silver men oil are mali making tig a mis mistake talco in opposing nil all conference on oil tile sublett of tile tho rehabilitation or of the whan metal und and thinks that will lo be construed as it confession or t tear fear or of ability to present tile the cause causa of slin or lit in fell a manner as to lo tile conference of its ha we think our cur contemporary mistakes the iho situation xo a silver men oppose the confer once but few silver men inqui havo have an any y faith in tiny any rood good results from the conference and the reason la Is that no ito matter what arguments may bis be presented no ito matter what W bat showing may bo be made they will not bo be accepted acee pled there have been two or three conferences already tho the silver allver mon had tho the best ot of tile arguments till all the way ivay through lit in the ihn groat gre lit international conference which vias vas sitting for months in london four or civo years ago a go llin showing mado there hero by abc ILA 0 silver s advocates was simply unanswerable tut answer ble tho the ablest moil mail bedora that comm commission oil declared tho the belief that tile oil I 1 of at silver would ruin the agricultural interests ot of tile tho united states it was shown moreover that thai ilia mighty I 1 ty fabrie fabric of credit on which the world was v as doing b business r wis on oil too small email a basis but lit iff ill nothing and tho the result was bo c causman ause an administration host hostile I 1 to fiher was in power in england in the united states and to in Gorni germany any and the other 11 nations of europe did not daro oppose these three great powers As long as england holds out vie a do not nob believe that any powers ot of europe can be induced to accept or agree upon the bimetallic re basis for money of ultimate re rc lon it if tho the british government has changed its IS views on the subject there has been no proof of that fact fac supplied to tho the world hone honce hon e to silver men the calling of a conference looks merely a rely liko ilia another intention to postpone a troublesome question until after the nominations havo have been made said and the elections shall have taken place tho the mistake 1 Is that our own congress does not take hold and grapple with the question because of its strength because cau so of its if position because of the manifold necessities of tho the people because of the unusual need which tile the P people ca plo have for more money than any other two nations of the W world carld because of tho the certainty that it if wo we would but use the tha treasures in our hills to go on and begin tho the peaceable conquest of spanish america by building her roads her cities her manufactures manufacture by smoothing her bar fields opening and working her mines and building the needed school houses to begin the colla conversion arsion of all that mighty area areaba be cause of all these things our own government should decide the silver question and yet with all these opportunities tuni tunit ties ios and these duties before 0 us our congress stands with its back upon its own ow country its face ace stretched abrosia arross the sea and cries to tho the old worl 11 A orld 10 lo to bogio co wo and join us in this silver matter ii ikei br or we shall bo be lost it if when tho the original blind bland bill was under consideration ilia silver men had had the prescience to say very well you have broken down dow A silver 15 percent per cent broken it from a premium of 3 per cent to a discount ot of 15 per cent by your act of wo WAD will assume that the bauo has bas changed that much only give us its back sliver silver money give it the ihn recognition which it had before but change the ratio 13 15 per cents cent it you please and when it receives that re recognition og and la Is put on a dire direct eLM lafity with gold tho the old law of supply land do mand will como come in and tho the metals will vili establish their own ratio kad had that been done it would have saved the producers of this country up to lo late data uncounted millions gf ct dollars instead of that tho the silver men accepted from congress a little sliver as token taken money but the old basis was held oldon on fold cold as before and while that struggle has been going on now flow for thirteen years tho the silver men have not won a point to change the roal real status of silver at all ail it has been treated by congress from the first and all ail the time as a mere commodity the tha whole burden has utter after till nil been ou on gold and tho silver dollars coined and the sliver silver ounces bought might mig bt lust just as nall ell have been represented by greenbacks green backs because they havo been not by io cognition but because they viero redeemable in gold coin wo we do not seo eo any use in pursuing that line any longer because tile tho majority is hopelessly against tho the silver men and as loog long as that samo same plan shall bo be pur purshall nothing but an overwhelming catastrophe to busl nebs vi is ill bring tile tho majority to their senses and cause thorn them to demand ablat hil justice shrill shall bo be done it would havo have been 1 all I 11 right this last winter except for the bountiful crop in the and the ilia generous porous go price paid tor for it by famine stricken europeo ru rolin and except tor for the tart fact that a presidential campaign was soon to bo be rill on and that concerned the ceans in the last east fo booro oro than any act ot of I 1 justice toward tho the people |