Show i PROVIDED AND IF stand in the way of that silver and hank bank of england story what the bank of england proposes to 1 do I about silver was formally and autho authoritatively rio tat ively stated yesterday at the semian semi an nual meeting of the bank by the governor who read i a letter he had bad written to the chancellor of the exchequer stating statin in in i substance that the bank was prepared to do what it was permitted to do by the bank act of 1844 that is to carry one fifth of the reserve against its notes in r silver ilver provided however that the french mint is again opened to the free coinage of silver and that the price at which silver is procurable and salable is satisfactory the governor went on oil to say that the bank had bad bought no silver and all that it had agreed to was to do what is permissible in sible under the act of 1844 on the conditions he stated this is some slight encouragement coura gement to bimetallists but not enough to excite them louisville commercial the silver missionaries senators cannon and pettigrew are in i japan apan where they propose to interview the emperor on the silver question possibly they think the emperor has not heard of the fall in silver or it if tie he has that he will be unable to resist their wonderful eloquence and so will immediately coun tr mand all orders looking to the establishment lish ment of the gold standard in his dominions the manner in which these silver apostles are wandering around the world seeking to gain some support would be pitiful if it wore were not for the fact most of them are arc greatly interested in mining and are arc see seeking kinf to foist a depreciated metal upon the world in order that they may mav profit personally petti rew and ma mantle n t I 1 e nobody has called attention to loany any great anxiety ou on the part of the public to tc know the result of the interview of senators pettigrew and M mantle antle with the miudo mikado of japan on the true tnie caad of the of silver the fut fact is everybody except pettigrew and mantle understood all about it before they left or it if they did not they could easily ei ily have learned it by an e examination a tion 0 of f the official report of the director of our mint whit which h shows that the japanese silver yen eu which in w was as worth cents had bad by july 1897 dropped to while the gold yen had not handed changed a i particle the prices of ibbs and being precisely preci frely tile the same iowa democracy Deniu cracy and gov boies the democratic party in loa iowa is is not content to lose the alliance of the other anti of the state but by its latest move it has ostracized the boles boie element the ren venerable crable uncle horace SIW saw ht fit to advocate the adoption of the commercial ratio between gold and silver and base free coinage coinage thereon instead of 16 to 1 uc lie insisted upon it thereupon the leaders ordered him to the rear lie ile is no longer allowed to go to and fro un and down doun the state preaching the gospel of free coinage at ag to 1 1 chicago inter ocean making our own tin plate the free trade theorists are not huntin hunting up just ww now t C ir assertions made when the mckinley McKin inley lcy law was enacted that no amount of protection would enable the united states to make its own tin plate not only is the bulk of our tin plate now being manufactured at home as a result of that protection thus given but our manufacturers of that article are actually invading foreign markets marl ets sick or of nis his own medicine the ohio nian man afraid of his bis platform is now presenting a curious spectacle two mouths months ago be crammed free silver and free silver only down the throat of the democratic party and now he is as sick ot of the dose as were the other people but lie he cant get rid of it row cow he has made his bed be must lie ia it I 1 I 1 |