| Show THE CAUSE OF SILVER tho silver cause Is growing when the two regular candidates are nominated this year 1 nothing la done for silver by cither party then we shall hear a commotion everything points to tho fact that tho thine is culminating now so that the will this year begin to listen A year ago it was a favorite expression with such newspapers aa the chicago tribune the pioneer press and all tho long arr ay iy 0 goldbug papers in tho east to oak it silver men wanted lo 10 put this country in the condition 0 mexico on a level mexico ot course the intention was to carry the idea that the wretchedness 0 mexico was due to the silver standard notwithstanding the differences in races notwithstanding the fact that cold and silver were used in common in mexico up to a very short time fago and notwithstanding tho other most important fact that mexico has never been so prosperous silver by tho united states tha truth la that mexico 13 having a genuine boom her exports of cofton augar gutta percha tobacco and other products have aten immense during the past year and her cotton woolen and paper mills her glassware porcelain and earthenware establishments have been their full capacity most profitably to the owners and to the people and the spectacle 3 presented ot our nation claiming to bo brightest in tho world working for nothing and to meet the current expenses 0 government while across the line a mongrel nation nine tenths of tho people of which are but miserable characterless halt breeds Is today the most prosperous nation in the world this contrast Is so marked that it has already begun to have its every man that goes to mexico and returns brings the same story and no man on earth can explain the situation on any other ground than that the one country Is on silver basis chere the money Is not BO valuable as property the other Is on a gold basis where it takes so louch properly to buy a little money that tho great masses of the workers are merely living |
