Show of f silver it is ia hard to trace the conspiracy cona piracy against silver through the coinage laws of the tha country the chicago inter ocean has gone to the trouble of af publishing all the acts relating to coinage and on their face the discriminating or de laws appe appear arquite quite harmless they seem to be patterned after the original patri oti otio 0 measures with only slight differences n but of course those di differences if feren ces with hostile administrations hafe depreciated the white metal the early laws made the silver dollar the unit of value and the first I 1 provided for frae coinage of gold and silver at a ratio of 15 to th 1 by free coinage cof nage it was meant that any person could bring i gold or silver to the mint get B receipt forit for it and as speedily speedia y as possible it should be coined free of expense to the person bringing it if the person f did riot not want to wait for it to be coined by mutual consent with the director of the mint coin coin could be immediately exchanged for the bullion one ona halt half of the one pr per I 1 benc cent being beig thi then en deducted from the bullion tie the r succeeding lawa changed the ratio slightly and provided for different kinds of coin but the underlying principle of the early legislation that of free coinage was not imp impaired aar tle the first time it was interfered with was in 1873 and that act in a covert way made the gold dollar the standard of value and left out the former unit or silver dollar entirely some of the best beat men ot of the country voted for that act among them silver men like senator benator stewart for the first time a single gold gola dollar was provided tor for in our comage coinage system and it was E called the unit af pf value silver dollar I 1 was the unit of value balue the regular silver dollar was left out in the mention of silver coins and only a trade dollar mentioned the silver coins were t ma delegal made legal tender in amounts exceeding only 5 at a payment with the regular dollar collar left out free coinage waa granted ais as ins m few y years e i ar B after in 1878 1678 the amount of silver coined began to be restricted that year it was provided that not less than 2000 OPO nor more than per month t h of silver bullion at the market price could coald be coined but silver was made legal bendor for all debts I 1 in 1890 I 1 the sherman law directed the secretary of the treasury to purchase ounces of silver bullion each month and pay for it in treasury notes in 1893 congress was waa called together in extraordinary session and the last vestige of right ailder had was taken away by repealing the I 1 clause providing for the purchase of on ounces n ces of silver per month it was thus silver was finally legislated out of the mints of the country and the blow of I 1 1893 was quite as severe as that of 1873 the act 0 of i 1873 was the entering of the wedge I 1 and the act of 1893 was the final blow which split the two metals as sunder but back of all this legislation was perhaps a more potent force in favor of the yellow metal and that was the gold obligations that had crept upon the country in all its commercial life the american people became the greatest bor borrowers rowen afi on eart earth h and they did not hesitate in si signing guing gold obligations 1 gat ions in 1890 so eo the united states census show the they had 09 in real estate mortgages and in state county municipal and school district indebtedness the I 1 greater part of these debts is mad mada 0 pa payable bable in gold and we have only GO in gold every man who has been borrowing money at the ba bank has been signing notes callin calling g bior for gold at maturity thus we have become at the mercy of the creditor class and their contracts will be binding long after silver is dremow even though our rich treasures of silver should be coined as of yore we could not force the white metal on the creditor class without t repudiation of former C contracts n and of course e no honest people win will think of repudiation itis it is a bad system that baa 1135 thus come upon ii take a revolution the antry ind I 1 may it but it to cut loose from I 1 would be better if the creditor arid and di debar ilai classes coula caul ct come to some am I 1 ica alc agreement as to I 1 settlement by the st ouis louis I such a as proposed p pod of f the debtor class platform form instead 0 starting in to 1 revolutionize unionize ut ionize matters 0 s prop propos asod td by the chica chicago 0 0 conven conten 0 tion o n the problem 1 em looks dark at best a and nd it ia the greatest issue that alt 1 has h ever r been n before the american I 1 people tim THE success of the appearance agan again of the home dramatic co on the hoards boards in the J B walton benefit suggests the advisability of more such entertainments in the future the home company is quite up to the standard of most traveling companies and the money spent to promote home talent does not leave the community as when spent to see the traveling combinations if the management of the opera house would accept only the star engagements engagement 8 an and d then 6 fill 11 up with the home company instead I 1 of the trashy traveling shows it would would please the people and it would be bean in the interest of public economy IT used to be an early church doctrine taught in the farmers were to store their surplus wheat for a famine would woula ir some day visit the land that doctrine is ia not heard often now but the disturbances in the elements this thia year show enow how easily crops can be destroyed and utah left quite as depena dependent ept as 83 the stricken districts utah has h as become to be regarded as pue one of the sure crop stales with its ita irrigating streams and it seems that wet seasons seasons sei sons are more to be feared than dry seasons there has been much grain destroyed I 1 in the valleys this thia season by the storms teachers of thet tate state owe much to thi the professors ot of the brigham young academy for the excell excellent ept t in in dilutes conducted conduct e a at idrovo provo 1 among the instructors of the past pait have been such men as col parser parker dr baldwin prof hinsdale dud and now prof r griggs they are leading lights in the educational world and contact with them cannot fail of goodre good results everything is at a standstill and t the wool market is ia about ruina last isi 1 week the lowest sales ever rec recorded corded for a week in ia jul july y were reached I 1 1 they onty only amounted to lbs ibs i in 1895 1695 for the corresponding week the salas sal ag yg reached ibs and about the same in previous years |