Show THE SILVER LINING TO THE CLOUD the war in the orient Is a savage business as most wars are apt to be but if 1 it keeps up it win will be a greil great thing for the people of tile the untied united states because those are arc sliver silver using countries and war nowadays now a days means such expenditures of money as were never dreamed of lit in the old days das of OC course it Is impossible to tell liow how much silver the phinese treasury has lit in store presumably it 11 Is not very great because notwithstanding the vast importations ot of silver to that country there are ot of people there they are very cry poor and it 11 Is not supposable suppo sabe that a groat great deal can be held in reserve when they begin to call tor for silver it will worry tile hie bankers ot of europe to obtain IL it Is easy enough tor for gold cold men to say it if you dare silver we wili will bo be deluged with a flood of it from rom europe but europe has not any silver that la Is not in ili dally daily use it Is in dally daily use at a higher ratio between silver and gold than in tills this country and it silver were to be by the united states tomorrow to morrow there would be no deluge the world would accept it the next day as the true bu business 3 I 1 ness an and d our country u would cut have such a boom a no nation has haa had bad for many and many a year if england and germany were to try to oppose it the result would only increase the boom on this side and it would not be a week k until the metals would be on a parity bec because auie it Is adi ridiculous di to suppose that it if the government of 0 the united states should make what would be equivalent to an unlimited demand tor for silver the powers of 0 the old world could prevent it even it if they tried with that arranged 1 it would be tor for tit the world what it 11 would uld be to discover some same great new sold gold country it would touch every shrunken artery ot of business and set it bounding and the men of new york would be astonished that they permitted themselves so long to believe that the addition of real money to the currency of 0 the country would bring them loss the effect would be to lift Inte interest iest up 2 or 3 per cent in new york within two weeks there would be a grand withdrawal of money from the banks because men aou would id want to invest it in property before that property resumed its former value vahie under tho the changed conditions A thousand new enterprises would spring into life orders would begin to pour in for goods to the east and the change elianne would be so gibat that it Is the astonishment of the world that the chiefs of 0 the two great battles in our country have lave not long ago sounded the slogan of free erand sought to ally the hosts of 0 the life country under their respective standards ards silver is going to bo be all possibly before the fourth of starch march certainly tit in the next elighte if months we expect that both parties will catry into their platforms lit in 18 a demand for the lite irce free and unlimited coinage of silver that both parties hilll be tumbling over each other to tl delare iare that they lira are the ofies that have hair always been friendly to silver anti and alien that shall fall be done the fad ought to be llred ia ann tho thi mindi of tile tho people of 0 the united states that tho ahr pre of the 17 abao ill cities is 18 a corruptible press that most of f those greit great 4 ate dictated from the counting looms land and dictated by men naj ho lave no 1101 bladder horizons that than i their own petty interests Inter cuts anti and who are not big enough or r preat great enough to understand that it la Is bolter egeit for them to have the alic millions of tills this land and prosperous than to try V to exact their full interest from a people that every day clay oro am growing poorer MOM c |