Show IND I 1 it is pleasing to see the great lle ee publican papers of the country being converted to bimetallism the chicago inter ocean has unfurled the silver ilag flag and now comes the now new york press from whose columns tax ENQUIRES has so often quoted with a long double leaded editorial on the silver question a portion of which we reproduce as follows complete rejection of silver means the permanent appreciation of gold As sold goes up as it has been going up ap almost without intermission for twenty years the arices of staple commodities de decline deaine dec lins cine wheat cotton petroleum petrol pum and silver have declined 1 in a value principally because the standard by which they are measured has advanced wheat has fallen from to about 60 cents a bushel not bec because aue wheat is produced i in excess for it is not but because gold lim has eo advanced that more heat is required to buy gold to whose advantage is this depression of prices england produces nj cotton no silver no petroleum and not half anoush wheat to leed feed her people we are the chief of all the producers of these materials thu 3 the pre predominance domin ence of british gold has supplied british mills with cheap cotton british workmen with cheap food and british mints with cheap silver and all at our cost coat oar debt to england may probably be counted in thousands of millions interest and principal vrin cipal are paid chiefly in these commodities every one of whid has been artificially da pressed in price by tile tho of silver with the effect to augment our indebtedness what patriotic american can contemplate this fact with in indifference what patriotic american can avoid a feeling of humiliation that our money policy like our tarl tariff policy is 13 dictated by a foreign nation which would exult to have our manufacturing industries crippled while our farmers and planters and miners are compelled rivals with materials mete rials ft less than half price bimetallism therefore represents repress nta inter interest estH Si as gold british interest what is the attitude of the republic republican can party toward the question beyond dispute tl tle e ratty barty is committed conclusive conclusively lv to the iW promotion of the joint use of both the la laciona ciorA metals it is committed by utterances in its plat foin bolms s by bv the tradition and practice e of the tbt government bv the fact that iree three ll 11 republican presidents three intern inter national 1 dional conferences in earnest effort t to 0 procure an agreement to balver and by the fact that I 1 tha Ke publican party represents protection to american interests from froia eu bodean aggression this was not once denied by those who took part on the gold side of the recent debate in the house of representatives the tern farmer who is impoverish impoverished el by I 1 gold the silver miner whose industry is injured by it the cotton I 1 planter who has bis debts eni en i barged by it these men are our follow fellow citi citizens their prosperity tv brinis brings aros to the ration nation when they hey can bay then the preat great manufacturing X industries in dus duat tries fies of the tha east aaa lav bayt an insa insatiable diable market when they suffer we u affer er aben products are exported exported d at half their value or lesa joao the nation natio n as a nation is the victim 0 or a kind of the same jamr devotion to cur car coun doun tryg tryl a welfare which impels the ie eist british free trade fiade urges it to oppose british both have a common origin both have a common purpose to pluck and to plunder other nations for british advantage the cause of cf the western I 1 t I 1 abe einsla gold h our cense I 1 it is ia t the e cause 0 it tile the est east ern manufacturer who is I 1 inri monr ir i from the son c awit with h irea frea it esthe cuse c use of the eastorn merc nier clar aart A who finds trade auliye only when the I 1 we A is rtuh the can an party parly then must stand fast bv hi rn collisto tol listo it must be faithful to its de el and its principles princ olea iDles it enst ann t he be ally allied acied to the west in the conal ct now begun the vy to sueji ws is is not wholly evident the gnp ibias that is evident to the pres pre s 8 iz is that the tha republican bubli can leaders must keep faith with I 1 the people that tant party has promised a bimetallic bi li metallic currency curre icv has promised ill that t sold and silver shail be kept opt at a rarity parity and the best interests of the country demand that those promises shall be faithful faithfully lv kept feest |