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Show THE S.'LVIIU lltl'.IIMI. It is a pity that tlm silver meeting held at Hie i li tmlier of eunuueree last 1 oven' ii could not have, assjioblttd in a I lr;ru hall under siilliuient notice t ) I hsvii given opportunity furalanje at-i at-i tniidaiu'e. I'.ut it was gratifying to lind ' thu f-a t i tit; capacity of the room ', crowded on such short notice, and thoMii who were present will ever bo ' tlirmkl'iil that it eaiue in their way to liiteu to thr.t nddresj of the (jreat ciiHinpion of tlm filver cittise. I .Senator Sii.'.v.vi.r r -pasted much ! ti.iu vvas faiu.'.isl' to dludents of this Mil'ji'ct, but many fact3 given were new to iiis Imari'r.i, while the sruincnt fr..m Li ginning to end wn so stron;; slid coiivirnitiK tliHt it made even strong 1 n o coinage men ,'ci more liniily rooted i'i llieir faith. It, is not our purpote tu levidw the address. Title Tl.vit.s "i-ptcted "i-ptcted liiat Mieh a meeting bo hold in t!:u hope Ih it the (roond might bo laid for driving out of this community the heresy under w' ich it, is pioposod to limit Ilia sgitnt iiii to a rionu'id for the f roi!i82 of the Aniericau product. Wo believe t hut purpose was cH'cclod by Senator Stewart's sddreis. No niftn who listened to the senator's jrn-Rcntai'iou jrn-Rcntai'iou of the sui;juct caa rut easy undi l' that Amciicau product proposal. It was shown that the p' ticiple upon wl.icli ihn ait.ttioii rent is the, most in-portont now before tha people, nnd that it would not ho reached by an act providing for the free riiinae of the product of American miti'. The world is sutrrring from the results of a con-pi racy that led to the virtual destruction de-struction of one half of the word's money, in order to iiiciesfo the va:r.c of the hundred thousand millions of soeuritios held by the mcipye J cHsses, i an ell'oit was raadn to decrease the I supply of money by demonetizing gold. When that failed, the eflurt was successfully success-fully turned nainst silver. The money bii-.e, that is, the voliuio of e.iri, tlie ultimate money of redem-tion redem-tion was cut iu two and tho value of moaey begnu to rise, and tigs risen uutil it is ii!l per cent greator than when tlin conspiracy of the money trust was carried into effect. Thu I (jlit for free coinage re-sts upon tl:e principle that this wrnnj must b righted. The contest is one iu which every producer is interested, asd the advocacy of any compromise scheme on the part of the producers of silver would simply bo a base betrayal of a great moral cause of which they arc the natural leaders. |