| Show brighter prospects for silver with the senate for silver by a majority of twelve the gold reserve some below the limit and stocks tumbling down it looks like silver would yet receive recognition through the mere force of circumstances perhaps the powers that be calculated that a war scare would force this government to issue gold bonds but it seems our statesmen are now considering the advisability of eng the large surplus of silver piled up in the treasury A war would certainly call that into circulation if it could be forced out now by the dorco of we believe that the raids on the treasury for gold guold cease the would find thoma elvea confronted with payment ou the demand notes which might be either gold or silver at the option of the treasury officials finding they would likely get silver it would not profit them to further deplete the treasury for their goldbug schemes the trouble now is that secretary carlisle pays everything in gold at the option of those presenting treasury notes and disregards the silver on hand tt is treated as though it were not legal tender and speculators are enabled to control our currency the coinage of tha silver bullion on hand and the recognition of silver as a coin of ultimate redemption the same aa gold is recognized would soon resto rethe price ota ilver or rather it would bring down the inflated purchasing power of gold that metal hag for years been the measure of our values and on tha principle of less money lower prices everything else has gone down just in proportion to the increased of gold today silver ia relatively as valuable as it bierwas compared with anything else but gold the products of the larm have gone down just as silver has gone down now our idea is eliat with full recognition given silver gold the inflation of the latter metal would cease and the goldi securities of the old world would come down with a crash this great country is power enough to turn tho financial scale so the gold end would not be up aind silver end down let our silver men stand firm for silver to help the financial situation |
