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Show N II K it MAN'S ItlMIIONfcaTV. John Siif.kman will match Am xav-lr.ii xav-lr.ii Havii.tiin in the limiiiei-il history of fie l iiiUil Slatej, and the intervtow ! a i!h the M-imt !- troin Ohio published , elsewhi-iv not less itiipnrlatit for i's ; prediction 14 to the tur. -e of our cur v-'iiey than Us deelai-tioii as to ihe liirht noiv in progreiis 111 OI11.1. l'liilaoelphia V, .v.,-. J'OiN Si 1 1-ic I a n will never match 1 Al.l.X A Mil. u 1 It M 'l 1 us until ho piiall i cut loose from tho service of the money po"er and serve the interests of tho pimple by advornt 'ij; honest principles of lin.-itice. Mamii.i in' wis a i(i'oat . iiliaiieicr; S'lKliMAN is also; but the former put lort h his g. ut aliilities in the sei'-ico of uis country, while the latter devotes himself 1 t . tha mtrvico of a chiis I which constitutes but a very small por-I por-I tioii of tho people and whose interests i 11 ciiiinerUoM wiih the money ip.'.ustioii ire oii.ised to the interests of the f?en-oral f?en-oral public. If such a proposition as i '.bat iiivoivtid in oppositiun to Ireo i coinage could liu presented to Hamilton Hamil-ton lit would disjoss it instantly. ' I i.H comment of tho 'v.s.s is drawn ! f -nil by uu interview had by its rep-; re sun La live with hsnaior Siis.h.man on the lil' er i'ie.s!i(in. it has often been charged 1 ii.tt Siii'.umas HghH silver with the dKliboraie purpose of bliudiug ttie per.ple 'o their true inleresls. It tin l.een h ., r" cO lani! the chari was repeated by a iiisiiaguitiiPil gentleman : from a public j.laU'oriu lure in Sail Lake only a few days airoi that SllEIt j ii.'.n delibei alely jirociired the demoni-; demoni-; ti.a!:on of silver in by sieiglit-of-j hand. This charge involves tha fur-I fur-I ther charge that lie is dishonest in all j his dealings with ihe silver question; i and when his utterances are i examined they furnish evidence of the coriBctness of such a conclusion Tim following from the interview to which reference has been made presents pre-sents nu illustration : j "Could the government maintain the I silver dollar on a par with gold under I a free and unlimited coinage acty" 'Certainly not. The only way that silver can be kept on a par with gold is to treat it as a suhs'diary coin and lot its rate of value be regulated by tho markets of the world. That would have to be so under any law or custom, because no single nation can regulate the price of any other ru.n than th one which has a stable value at all times and under all conditions." No man knows better than SiikhmAs that the price of gold htt.s beon regulated by Great Hritain. England established tho price of gold, and she did it against far greater odds thau the United States would have to meet in sustaining sustain-ing silvor. Parliament decreed that the Hank of England should pay a certain cer-tain rate for the yellow metal, and it was never found necessary to alter that rate or modify tho duerce. The law was passed long before the gold mines of California und Australia were discovered. discov-ered. Those mines fairly Hooded the world with gold, and it was doubted by many financiers whether the value of the product could be sustained, but no particle of trouble was ever experienced. experi-enced. The great bulk of the gold production produc-tion flowed into the llritish treasury; and not only was the price sustained but the commercial interests ol England Eng-land piolitc l enormously by reason of the law that stood upon the statute books of that natiou. Whan John SiiKifMAN declares that no nation can maintain tiie price of cither of the pre-cioua pre-cioua meta'.s uuder all conditions, ha g ves! the lie to history; aud we tan only aouclude that ho makes the assertion asser-tion fijr the purpose of fortifying a position po-sition which he knows to be false. It looks bae dishonesty of the darkest hue entered upon for tho purpose of deceiving de-ceiving and blinding a multitude of people peo-ple who bo knows are ready lo accept his assertions upon ruuLtious of Cuauca as financial gospel. |