Show That would result In the starting of business there which In a little while would absorb all the silver of the world for before this trouble came the highest high-est financial officer of China told Senators Sen-ators Dubols Pclllgrew and Cannon thai China needed 100000000 in silver annually for twenty years to come and then their currency would bebut 5 per capita As to the ratio that would not matter mat-ter With full recognition silver and gold would in a few weeks assume their relative relations and If I 22 to 1 waS not the right ratio silver would go to a premium With this adjustment the United States Government would lose little or nothing for the great mass of the sliver sli-ver which he Government holds was bought at a shameful discount As things are drifting our authorities will wake up some morning to find that Great Britain has assumed the Chinese Indemnity and that she Is rushing her Straits Settlement dollars therethe silver I sil-ver for which she btiya of the United States at Gi cents per ounce and that she has assumed control of the Chinese trade This Is the lime when some sensible sen-sible work Is needed among the statesmen states-men and financiers 1 at Washington and on the part of thc great journals of thc East but we dp not expect much from them beeauBc their eyes are blinded as was Pharaohs while one plague after another was worked 1 on him |