Show allter as money A few days ago in conversation with a gentlemen from the mormon co loniea in mexico we asked him how the silver standard worked in that republic his answer was that the people get along admirably with silver money in their domestic trad and never seem to know that there is a premium of gold until thy have to exchange their mexican dollars tor american money to coma to the united states in our domestic commerce continued this gentleman mony seems qute plentiful and oar people get good cash prices for their produce we pay about the same for labor per day as do the people of utah a dollar seems to go about as far in it compy to baying food as a dollar boes hare we have to import most of our clothing and that B somewhat highet in every avenue of domestic trade a dollar seems fully worth one hundred cents to a great extent free coinage would the same in the unit pil Siu iea every dollar here in aur home trade would be norih a cents we we naver know there was a premium on gold until measured i with the gold standard of england and some of the continental countries of europe and then our money would be worth more even though we had a silver standard than the mexican dollars in that republic according to the gentleman before quoted it takes now about two mexican collais to buy an amencia dollar but there are so comparatively few mexicans come across the border north that very few in the country know there is h premium on american money the same would be true in this country if we bad freb coinage of silver today biety millions of people would go on with our great internal commerce som merce and never know that there was a premium on british gold the other five millions would be somewhat bothered to kaow that when traveling abroad they would have to pay a premium on foreign gold wo rather think that such would be the state of affairs with free coinage of silver though this great republic aided by the other republics of this hemisphere might be powerful enough to force europe to acknowledge silver as money european countries could not well exist without the trade of the new world and in order to trade with us they would have to accept our silver money that question might be reversed of course hut believes we could get along without the trade of europe better than the countries over there could get along without our trade the Ee publican policy has always been to look after the internal com merce of the country and the foreign commerce would tako care of itself acting on that principle we ought to have free coinage of silver aa it would undoubtedly help domestic trade which is many times greater than our foreign trade |