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Show The weight that has been resting on silver has been lilted. The price is advancing ad-vancing and it is evident that the world is awakening to the fact that it cannot get along without tho metal. The president of the Argentine Republic declares that bis country mut adopt silver. A leading Trench financier writes that a freo coinage law in the United Slates would put silver up to 5'J pence in Loudon, or more than ll.S'J In Sew York. Wo beliov. that this country will be ready by December not only to demand free coinage act. but that a latio of l."i to 1 i ins'"ftd of it; to 1 will be insisted upon. Ti u f;o, iii feeling in favor of silver I nil eve tin world to meet the demands ' of the people, will put tho price above our roiei'.'o ratio and make it diilicult. for the United States to secure enough of its own product for coinage purposes. It would be lolly for this country to permit its silver to go abroad to minister min-ister to tl.e necessities of other nations when its rotLiition here would give us overshadowing commt rciul supremacy. |