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Show ! THE WAR ON SILVER. J For many years tne government has fixed the price of .silver. Long '".'M incur in-cur government thought of fixing the prices of other commodities it was placing plac-ing embargoes on silver. Tn 1873 congress passed an act de-mouetizing de-mouetizing silver. Lver since that law ! has been known a "the crime of '73. There is evidence that it was the result of a conspiracy hatched in London, but wh'-ther it was or not it had the effect of striking down silver and keeping it down. It is in this respect that silver differs from all other metals. It has been discriminated dis-criminated against by the Lnglish and American governments and by other governments of the world for many years. The law of supply and demand was artificially limited by ths laws and regulations demonetizing silver. The grvemment at Washington today has adopted a policy of price fixing. It has interfered with the law of supply and demand by fixing tho prices of wheat, copper, steel, sugar and other commodities commodi-ties and it has won the applause of the people, for the people have been patriotically patri-otically eager to help the government to win the war. But wheat, copper, steel, sugar, meat and other commodities arc in an altogether alto-gether different class from silver. They have been discriminated against for a few months; silver has been discriminated discrimi-nated against for more thau forty-five years. And now that silver has again come into its own despite embargoes the government would impose new embargoes. em-bargoes. Tt is as if some giant should wait bes:de the bed of a wounded soldier until he was convalescent and then strike him down with a club. |