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Show GOODWIN AND SILVER. The Boston Herald prints the following follow-ing editorial without comment: The London quotation for silver dropped yesterday to 49 d per ounce. Only a few weeks ago the whits metal was booming at biH d per ounce, and Its friends claimed that it was on the straight road to par. The par quotation, quo-tation, reckoning It by the American standard. Is about 66 d per ounce, or to be exact about It, 58.98 d per ounce. When silver touches that price in London the metal In our standard silver sil-ver dollar is worth the face value of the piece. But Instead of making an advanoe of 4f d per ounoe to par, silver shows a d saline "f 4 d per ounce to 49X d. A few weeks ago the metslllo value of the silver dollar stood at 8294 eents, but now It Is down to 81! cents. It is evident further legislation will be necessary to remove silver from the list of commodities upon which the speculator preys. . 80 long as the opportunity op-portunity is afforded him he will force the price of silver down until he is ready to buy and then force it up until he is ready to sell. Nothing but free coinago with incidental protection will shut out the gambler and give the miner a fair chance. In the discussion and agitation of the subject the silver states and territories will meet an organized and determined opposltion-of goldites heretofore unknown. un-known. The chief Interest of Utah will be at stake. Can we afford to let It suffer defeat by default when we have a chance to send the ablest champion of silver to Washington to advocate its cause and rights f The law passed during dur-ing thi past session was a compromise accepted by the silver men in view of future fu-ture legislation. It was a step, but only one step in the right direction. The future legislation will come with the Fifty-second congress, and C. C. Godwin God-win should sit in it if we kuow what is good for us. |