Show HOW DOES IT IF KNOW A gentleman sends us an article from itie he portland Ore oregonians oregonian Oree gonian onlan 0 or december ath and asks us tl if there la Is any reply to it it Is entitled exhaustion of patience and of course Is a a ca Ore conlan P article denouncing sliver silver anil and those who believe in it the best reply perhaps would be to call cail the gen ken attention to the condition of things in oregon itself her farmers inada iia no money during the past year her merchants have madi made but small ve turns the men who owned keilty had who owed morts mortgages races upon it could barely pay the interest several thousand houses in n the city cily 04 0 portland re bained unoccupied because the people were unable to pay the rents it if the Ore oregonians oregonian Orey gonian onlan realizes that state of affairs and intentionally closes its eyes against tho the only remedy through which a return of the old prosperity can come there la is not much use in pointing cut ut the truth because that is in one newspaper that flits fills exactly the old scriptural phrase lla having ying eyes they see sec not the article in full Is as follows the relative value of silver and frold fold throughout the world Is to I 1 but there Is a 0 squad 09 qu of cheap politicians in oregon who vilt say Y the ratio la is IG 16 to L they are a noisy lot but there is more noise than force and with them intelli gence bence la Is la in inverse ratio to babble end and noise they may as well dispute the relative specific gravity ot of water and air as the relative value of gold and silver beyond doubt the people of oregon will continue to depend on the worlds fracio rather than on the aulton bourne pen noyer ratio naturally fatu raly there Is among people eople ot or sense and sincerity small patience with this babble it if the ilie authors of it claim to hold bold honest opinions then their sin aln eerily can be vindicated only at the expense of their intelligence in either cither cast the discussion quickly exhausts pa alonce in every country on this earth where silver circulates above its ita bullion value there sliver ehver coinage Is limited no nation which has baa silver in circulation w with th gold admits g silver to ame coinage it re tion Is indispensable hence e e civilized and enlightened country arv li limits mits the coinage of silver our advocates advocate of tree free El bellr lr r are not sincere or they are on tile he int level ot of mexicans mexicana cana or cb Cit 7 neso arc an we to have a new theory in mathe that things which are unequal to oth T r things are arc equal to each other well but india accepts silver at higher value than we do this aso assertion artion in tact fact Is riot not true but it if it were true it would be nothing to the purpose we lave ave no control over india nothing to say as to what the elie people there shall use or it marwy an and no power to compel cOmPe ithem them to change chance their estimate of 11 the 1 e purchasing U rc hasing power ot of the silver rupee I 1 moreover er india has stopped the coinage of 01 allver because it has more silver coin on hand alre already idy than it has proper use n silver there mere had lot so plen ti it ul u it t would riot not bo be so cheap that country Is still using a quantity of silver esti ro mated bcd nominally at SIZ or more and ana it has depreciated one half it Is to rc arvad to ii a com nal na av f fo cranks crank 1 and ana unscrupulous politicians in this country of which oregon h haa lt her E tull till share to in insist inist that silver Is worth twice what it la is accounted to be worth by all other peoples in the world put but that it fo fo for nine long years said burke in alit t he exordium of til bi great on american taxation we have been lashed round and round the circle of pitiful alful argurn ants and temporary elpe expedients bents I 1 am sure our heads e must turn and our stomachs nauseate naus aw with them we have had them in every shape we it have ave looked at thorn thern from every point of few invention Is exhausted reason la is fatigued esper lecce has given judgment but ob salna y is riot not yet conquered such la I 1 this money abes alon in the united states slates in which the babble about liber rahe bears b r a so BO great a part for more than nine long ion years we have been lashed ached round boull d ard and ar d round the circle of pitiful ar enta and temporary expedient and A lid who warre re ire are we wey let the financial 1 al nil plight ghi 0 of the country tell lel Is there any wonder that patience Is exhausted suppose we began at the closing paragraph of the foregoing and asked the elie oregon editor whit what wh it silver has co do with the financial plight of the country just now the congress of 0 the united states with the president behind it and ana with the great prees a of the east have made it impossible for any liver miner miller to find any spot in america he can zell gel his silver that la Is what such gentlemen as the oregon editor have been working to for nine years and more and now let him an answer awer where we are and what the financial plight of the country tells aby Is he be charging the present depres non eion and loss and heartburning and rnest 1 to lo silver eaves what mr bir burke burka said Is g valuable as literary attachment but what special application has it hero here lie he says the relative value of silver and gold th throughout ugh 0 ut the world Is 1 32 to 1 I will he tell us what makes a value lor for either sll ellve ve roc OV gold if he will do that then we shall I 1 have something to start Is it anything on earth pt the recognition of the nations how W much laudi value would either cristal have except for or the tha worlds recognition of their great use as money and why does the world rid rate the two metals at 22 to lo I 1 ts Is it foray reason on oil earth except that bankers in europe supplemented by some bankers la in the united states by kery got the governments of in ane united states of germany 0 of great creat of austria and of the lands land to declare that silver was waa no longer money suppose they had deft lc pt away n effay that legislation would there hara fare been any trouble inasmuch as they have had their way nis as an that lech illation has ruled the world now tir for one and twenty years and brought every nation of the earth to tile the brink of financial bankrupt cyp including our own why should this editor up iv ivare 1 I re the oregon rolls be co impatient that certain men cry out to have the old statutes atutes tt restored ile he tells US how low much silver Is worth in india silver Is just as muc 1 l in india a as it ever fas because tie cause it will ivill buy just as much if f ajoy that VIA t 1 men of 0 india want as ae it ever did ounce for or ounce the only hardship they have hare is when hey come to pay debts which were contracted tr f in fi I gold before sold gold appreciated IOD per cent ali and d when whan tile the oregonians oregonian Oro Ore gontan gonian says that men may as well discuss the rola relative tive shellio gravity of water and air oa as the relative values of gold and silver whilo while it sounds very nicely there Ls Is no sense in it because gold eold and silver have no relative value except such as Is s made by le and when the elie oregon paper speaks ot of the worlds ratio it means the ratio established by tile the and the tha other bankers ot of ilvo or six nations in europ and the united states outside ot of those all the world u uses acs silver england tried to break down sliver silver alm almat lt eighty years yeara ago aco it did not have any effect but when the united stales and germany joined with england then ben gold began to appreciate the arclo nian man will not pretend that anything catese caused ed that thai but legislation lefi lation because the editor ot of the Ore oregonians oregonian Oreg onlan gonian la Is a sensible man and knows that iliac those two tr 0 o metals never drew apart except through legislation and on what ground does lie assume that if I 1 the united states pleased to change back that legislation it could not do so the united states with frarick Fr arice with the orient and with spanish america would anake a ernfrit n dous bal balance encle against what the man cillis calls the world all that is needed Is a little resolution on the part ot of our and our president of 01 course the modesty of 0 the oregon per need not be mentioned when it gets up lip and says that such men as balfour Bal Cour senator jones Tones senator cameron banker st john and the ex president of she lie cank bank of england iceland are nil all tools fools it Is simply dimray tal kinga a little wildly flo fro wever it is idle to dispute apolant a point with a man that has determined in advance no not to be convinced there Is onty just one point in this whole business in the dealings of this world we have to lo use the substances of this compared with everything else silver has not alien balien at aft notwithstanding anotn legis ss but sold cold has appreciated per cent ind and so it the oregonians oregonian Ores Ore onlan gonian or any man jn in oregon has anything to soil sell or lias has any debt to pay so long lona as the finances of this nation are held birne ance a they are and they have to pay in gold cold they leave faveto ha veto to pay two forone tor one and that Is going on all over this country uell the united states la Is so poor that it pan nan no longer loneer buy foreign luxuries then its trade is all congested and hence through the natural channels through which tile government obtained ob money it can call no lonser longer obtain it and so is running in debt mout monthly bly that Is the effect ol of the gold eold standard that la is the answer to the last question asked above where are we we are lust just where any people will land that ignores all natural laws lairs and that hit against the interests and against the common sense of the world cuts the worlds money in two and throws halt half away ariy and when tho the Ores Oreg onlan tells ab about out tile the financial flicht r ot of the country a at t present and wonders not that patience Is exhausted we join ia it but it Is not ell ver I 1 legislation e that has haa caused that it Is pure gold legislation which the oregonians oregonian Ore gonian clings to as to the apple of its eye the rich men have robbed the he country until they have made tt it impossible for the people to make money that is the producing portion hence the revenues of the Gove government shrink and the deficit has haa to be met by borrowing under such a spectacle it would be in better taste it if not in better judgment for the tha Oreg onlan to raise Us its voli voice ind and sly say you toil had your way you have destroyed silver ns as money you have followed the beck of the bankers who have controlled this government until you are arc absolutely stranded Is it not tane to return to lo the realm of com common mon sense and le legislate Is a little for the people who work rather than tor for the bankers ra ho collect interest from the workers |