Show INDIA AND SILVER The Springfield Republican has this item This f amino I In India has followed tho establishment of this lnulr gold standard In that country which had always bcforo boon on a silver bails Tho distress of tho peoplo IB I due to their lack of money to buy grain not to an actual lack of grain Hence tho pold standard Is responsible for tho hard times In India ch Now that may bo bad logic yet I Is I exactly tho kind which hrs done valiant s orvlce In American polities for many yours BuM ness depression followed Mr Clevelands last election therefore the Democratic party was responsible for the depression Business revival followed Mr McKlnleys election thoroforo the revival Is the direct outcomo of Republican domination 1C Americans can reason In that way why cannot tho Eat Indians reason that the exceptional extent and horrors of tho present famine aro duo to the change from auIlVLT to a gold basis These questions ques-tions aro respectfully submitted to tho class In logic That taken In connection with n statement by Prof Washburn Hopkins Hop-kins of Yale university who has been In India that to end anything any-thing but money to India to aid the famine sufferers is downright foolishness that there Is plenty of grain In India although the people are too poor to buy It from the local merchants who hold It that what tho men starving need Is money to buy that gralti and they need It quick that makes out the case entirely One third of the deaths four years ago by famine In India were duo not to a famine of food but to n famine of money I seems from the above statements state-ments that the same is not only true but Intensified this year Tho ordinary transactions In India cannot be carried car-ried on In gold The British officers in India who wanted their pay in gold brought India to a gold standard They had tho mints closed and the poor peoplo who before could take their little bars of silver and their bangles ban-gles and have them coined Into rupees ru-pees found four years ago that when they took them und offered them foi food they could not get It and so by millions they lay down and died They are doing tlC tame thing thIs year England has been charged with some cruel things but the moat cruel thing in an ncr history Is i that Bhe matched that destruction of life four yearn ago knowing the cause rind still permitted It to go on Not only that but she proceeded to complete the goldstand ard proposition and now the horrors of four years ago are being repeated in enlarged form and the crime lies directly di-rectly at the door of Englands financiers finan-ciers who control the Government in a little manner this country was suf j I fcrlng four years ago ai I India was l and is not by famine but because of I the low volume of the standard money in this country caused by the demO de-mO 1 t2alol of ullvor The producers produc-ers of tho country were receiving nothing noth-ing for their work ami while people l did not starve tho lows of property by hat legislation WUB sufficient to make I infinite dstrc9H and the JOBS really amounted to1 n um equal to all the al ac I cumulated properly of an ordinary em PILe That it has changed now It due to a werles oC accidents t tful the change has not been without I hr hl effects m the I Old World By a lucky KO un strics of misfortunes abroad the strain ha been lakcn from this country but It has been at the expense of other nations Lions Hence It is perfectly natural to read that there Is distress In the Old World and that the finances of every commercial capital of the Old World are congested s that the brightest bright-est of men there are sUed with apprehension appre-hension They aro liable to see what tho trouble is and to come to sin agreement agree-ment to change IL There In nothing for our country to do but to wait and tholc IK no hardship any more In our waiting for we have drawn so much of the wealth of the Old World Ito I-to us and besides have such a command I com-mand of the worlds wealth and moreover more-over have such t command of the world markets thai the Old World cal never aguln put us In the position that we were In four years ago They used to scoff at American Oliver they planned to have silver tlPinonellzed amonj all thy enlightened natlonn al enlghl lel nalono I They have accomplished their desire pretty nearly but they find to their f horror that t the cup of bllloiness which I they planned for the New World Is pressed to their own lips now and they must drink of It while the United I States stands ready for their gold to I supply them still with bioadsluffs with textiles and with such manufactured l goods us the Old World cnnot compete with the United Stales In producing Our country has the nay The Old World cannot starve us More than that it cannot get along without buying I buy-ing what we have to sell So they have got the silver question now to themselves The cited It i seen In tho awful famine In India In the awful depression In the financial cenlers of Europe in the stagnation HO far as I growth Is concerned beyond the sea while on this side thorp Is an expansion expan-sion that Is the wonder oC the world I |