Show UNFOUNDED FEARS the scranton pa tribune in its ita splendid christmas number coplea copies the views of the salt lake tribune on sit silver and while commending commend lne thera to its says the views alow ot of the sell salt like lahe tribune in the article lut just alluded to contemplate it we understand them the throwing open 0 f our mints to the silver of 0 the entire w world orld we fall fail to perceive in lu its argument warrant for till nn extreme step in international db philanthropy the primary duty of this government it OCCUM to us ua la Is to legislate tor for the host interests ot of A americana its obligations to mankind in general are am to its ita home obligations we therefore believe it possible and practicable not Ith standing the denials of 0 the gold boil mono is to olter offer tree free coinage to american Amerl sie allver lver nt at a fair air ratio provided a high tariff on for orelan eign silver shall protect us from bein helps g swamped by it this we understand to be the policy of 0 the more liberal and progressive republican leaders notable among them being thomas 13 reed heed to this compromise policy we have no doubt the mass of eastern republicans will ultimately led their assent a it II the conservative western friends of oliver will bo be satisfied with this well and good food it if not lot let them reflect a second time before entering 1 ith incongruous allies upon a sectional ing h t that otters offers small hope of ultimate success buckens anil and large prospect of needless bitterness the Scra scranton nEon paper Is struggling I rp IP P to the light but some things are re exaggerated ag in its vision even as the hits and trees and other natural objects are magnified in the it human u mun eye eve by the of the air at jan jami 1 it forgets that the reason silver for four thousand years was held as perfect money was because aside from its pos inherently all the properties necessary to make it a perfect measure sure of val values lie it was impossible for ma man I 1 wl with th a all 11 his 1118 cupidity to get enough of 0 f it to fill 1111 the worlds want tor for money the scranton anton paper has seen in the press of the last east I and in the opinions of the men alio believe exclusively y in go gold I 1 d that thai it if the government lot df the united states were to open the gate eates s there would be an inundation ot of silver that would swamp this unfortunate land the best way to clear away these illusions Is to go right straight to the figures we have in gold silver and pa per according to the estimation of our treasury about 25 3 per capita of that chat the thes S per capita in fit gold counts the rest reit does not tint that Is s it Is a convenience in doing business busin ofis but it has nothing whatever to do 10 prices it if we mistake not khz th lle jle Public publicans ans of pennsylvania last summer demanded that the money of the country be increased to 30 per perva capita pita now there are 1100 millions of dollars in ili europe rope in silver if altre ave had every ounce of it including luding the money the bullion the forks the e everything lit in the way of silver that europe sei it would increase our present per capita only about 15 an and I 1 it if we had all tile the silver oliver in the world dumped apon our shores it would increase our per capita but 47 it the scranton editor will stop to bunk tor for a moment he will know that thai nine tenths of all the silver liver in europe is in active circulation rv pv cry day a at t the rate of 15 to 1 arid and as for the silver in asia asia is ds simply an absorbent of the wh white ile metal it never com comes ea out except under the stress of a great ward war and india china and japan under normal conditions are beady to absorb every ounce of filver yah er that the mines of the world can produce that la Is not consumed by the arts hence there is no fear of the threatened ened inundation As senator jones slid in his great speech jn in september 1893 gentlemen where is ia this silver to come from no one answered him no one can answer mm him and the reason we say open the mints to the worlds silver Is because to limit it to tile the silvor silver of this country would in advance cast a doubt upon it as though we could coul d not handle it in the old days when the recognition was the same for both metals it was difficult for us its to get silver enough to make change lecause because it fol following lowling a natural law gravitated beyond the pea fea but the amount of it in the world gave prices to the worlds products and that Is whit wh 3 t we want to to I 1 have restored an another 0 their fallacy on the part of the ren contemporary is to con confuse silver men with populists lists the populists lists do not believe in silver that Is they talk free silver liver hut but that Is not their hope or their desire it is a paper party it believes that money enough can be made la in the printing presses without the trouble of digging silver and gold from the earth the silver men are arc not going to join coln the populists lists it it ever becomes necessary for them to go eo oi off in a party of their own they will formulate a platform of principles that will not be like the populists lists platform it will be for sound money money as good as gold and it awe mistake not there will be added to it a belief in at least incidental protection and 1 call for a closer walk with S spanish anicil ameri can states and other silver using countries possibly the populists po pullets lists will come to tile the silver party the silver party will vill never go to the populists lists |