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Show tiro country is drifting rapidly toward independent bimettalisiii. nnd the only danger is that our government will hesitate o long that Europe, discovering discover-ing tho drift hero and its iui)ort. will aiep in and stual from us part of tbo advantage and prestige which it in pos-nble pos-nble for u to win by a freo coinage enactment. Oi.AllUll.l.l TUU.11NU OTF.R. We hope that Secretary Foster knows what he is talking about wbeii be says, as he does, that England aud Germany are soon to turn over in lavor of bimetallism. Premier Sai.13- l:i;i;Y's utterance on the silver question a few days ago, it is true, affords some ground for au assumption of this sort, no far as regards Englaud. but some doubt has breu thrown on the authenticity authen-ticity of this deliverance. The country coun-try has often thought iu the past tea or tiveivs yuars that the leading nations na-tions of Europe wera ready to stop iu nnd help us soive thu silver problem, but practical inquiry always showed that the nuiion was baseless. There nve some indications now, though, that Englaud, which has been the principal stumbling block iu the way of an international in-ternational agreement on this question, noes that gold is inadequate to meet the wants of the woiid in tho ex-caauges, ex-caauges, a si that it will soon be roady to Uo us part toward enlarging the uses of nit ver in the circulating medium. me-dium. '.; hide-Democrat. The Globs-Deiuucrat has always been a gold-bug organ, but it has shown many signs recently of turning over, and tho foregoing indicates that it is approaching a free coinage platform. It must be borne in mind that the gold-bug gold-bug pfess formerly insisted that silver was not needed as money. It was, in their eyes, a "nasty" commodity that should not receive any consideration from an intelligent people. Tho Blaxd law was branded by them as a dangerous danger-ous humbug, and every proposition to further enlarge the use of silver was hooted as a crazy scheme of intlation. . It my be fairly claimed that an acknowledgment ac-knowledgment from one of the former single standard organs that "gold is inadequate in-adequate to meet the wants of the worl J" is a square back-down. To be sure, tha Globe-Democrat wants to wait on England, but that position cannot can-not long be maintained. Since silver is needed, it is plainly tho duty of this great silv.r producing nation to n.ae the grtatest possible use f it. &:tice il ' is a goon thing, we caunot have too ! much of it. It is easy enough to prove 1 that free coinage would sat the standard J for the whole world, and no paper can long cling to the idea that we are dependent de-pendent in any degree upon Englaud or any o'her nation. It is Cot only the Globe-Democrat that is thus gradually turning over the aeutiraunt of tbe en-, |