Show OUR HANDICAP Never before was the foolishness au and wickedness wicked wicked- wickedness ness of the of slIver silver el more palpable than than Suppose 5 it had a nut not been done what would bethe be the position of the United States in the orient to S lay day China China with with her oooo of people has hasS S herself and thrown thron off the thralldom of the the thc centuries ries and is is' is almost t. t te ready read to d to start on her lier new career But no other p save ave our great republic looks with ith full sympathy and friendship upon her Could the e exchanges changes between oun- oun try y be equalized she wOuld would would-tuni tun to us S at once as the land to lean uP lan land from which to obtain the mono money and the supplies ned d. d to set the l e new ern government on ou its tremendous upward up tip i ward vard way va What she sli twenty-five twenty years ao ago could buy by of us for Jor three of her money now costs her seven and she cannot bear hear the advance On the ot other hand that wh which ch she he sold soll us f for l a l t d dollar nar of our money twenty five years earR ago she can cap now now afford to sell Bell us for 40 cents of or our mone money hence she caD can send us her products which include iron coal steel billets steel rails rail and l many au other things a and d sell seU them to us UK at prices which our own laborers skilled and unskilled cannot canneL begin to to compete against When hen the tho masses of r our Ul workers understand th these facts as they ther quickly will ilI wh when n. n U the e products of thc r-thc begin to JQ pour Jr in upon pon us at at pric prices s which our laborers rs will vilI be he helpless to compete against what answer will our statesmen sr 1 l give when the d demand mand is made upon t then them ni to know why know why r. r this crime a against our own p people was c committed And Anil n is it t t. not ot singular r that neither tb the president president dent nor any member of congress dares darc to ment men- men t lion i n this fact aUd and the great groat 11 newspapers rl of the mist east dare not tell teU the truth to IC th tb h The death of our export trade d does docs cs not complete corn com complete com com- the wrong and loss los Our currency is confused con t fused in any trading With Spanish Am America ica ica or any uny I p portion rt m of Asia Our mines in th the west cs h have YC suf sui suffered suffered suf- suf a loss Joss O of m more re than 1200 millions of do dollars l I since li f-li t legislation of or 1893 Does an any one I ik I that any any industry can can an lose iose that am amount with without ut every other r industry try suffering correspondingly i It If would not bo be to too lat late e to arrest this wrong ong and loss did dig not ot the go J in n the east cast continue continue continue con con- lo to bulldoze re the finances and nud through them our pur lawmakers In What Vh t. t wo would little Prance France do in such a a situation 7 1 What has sh she alread already Irea y done 1 During all the years cars that our interest gatherers were destroying yin ing half th the legitimate te I money of th the world that m men n might n never v r get geL out of debt mi might ht never cease paying interest France maintained main main- tamed her hr silver silvOr r at her old ratio of n 15 to 1 1 and pros prospered as no other coUI country did She hasma has ma maintained that ratio rato ever since Rince G Germany dise dis discarded e carded silver er and find now her poor people arc are clamoring clamoring clam clam- oring ring to have it re restored Last summer when Germany was as threatening g war yar with France 1 an e tho the latter country sent a message to Berlin that she he would like the which h Germany owed France Should France discover in iii the P Pyrenees silvermines silvermines silver mines as exten extensive ic as those in our OUt western states does docs anyone anone m one think she would d mine that silver as w wo we do and send it to London as as' we do to be soldat soldat sold old at any price a few there might decide to as ask for it I 1 Not much she would ol ld take it coin eoin it at nt the ratio of to 1 land and proclaim it legal ten tender el for all aU debts the sain samp as gold And And with it its she sho would capture re the trade of tho the orient and of South America just as we might had our lawmakers lawmakers law law- makers ra b but t the sagacity to wipe out ont that legislation legislation legis legis- lation of 1 1893 99 and place the silver taken from our own n mines mines' on the same ba basis is that ii it stood upon before the steal began in 1873 The mighty might change that would be wrought would woul be apparent at once The fhe languishing hing enterprises en n. n ter rises of our countr country would start into robust life and t the e trade of the orient and of or Sp Spanish anish America e w would be ours And the wisdom of the fathers who so long Jong kept the thc metals gold and silv silver l' l working side by side ide would be vindicated d. d The rhe truth i is i so plain that we ive wonder a n demand that t the c wrong b be rig right righted t d dis is not rising from every I hamlet in the HIe union I |