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Show SILVER'S RISE. .Silver at fifty and an eighth shows that the white metal is much stronger than for a Inug time. The indications are that silver is about to come into its own again. Conditions seem to be shaping shap-ing themselves throughout, the world lor a steady increase iu the demand for silver. -Not ihe least among the conditions which affect silver is the financing of the war. The aigantic credits obtained by the various governments and the vast amounts "uf interest which must Jje paid from time to time augment the de-maud de-maud for real money to such au extent that after' the war ways and means must be found to supplement the gold money of the world. The safest method is to employ silver wherever gold is not essential. This does not necessarily mean a bimetallic basis, for the uses of silver as money can be greatly ex- I tended, even with the gold standard. The outlook for silver has not been so bright in many years. ' |