Show S' S sh iT IT NOT TIME 1 Re Reader Header der did you ou note that dispatch three days daysI I ago to go of the falling of ofT off of our export trade to China i 2 during the past four or five years About 75 per percent c cP cent nt if we remember correctly r. r In these v years ears teo when China has been extending her railroads L 4 d. d factories fact ries and smelting furnaces and rolling l mills ills 1 Years cars too in ill which she he has incessantly been een seeking closer relations with the United States ates Is there no senator oi ot representative in all our western states who has the courage to layal lay he real al facts before the country and to demand J t lt at least an effort shall be he made to restore i ir Hers to where they stood before the insane and andS and'S S 'S ci criminal minal leg legislation was forc forced upon the country 11 l proved to he be so immense a disaster at atS S librae e a and ld which abroad broad has resulted res in in closing ai aJl l e ports of the orient agair against st our merchandise V i d confusion ir in our trade with all Spanish S America 1 I 14 If there are still tiU people who do not understand understandS S c cause nis s of this trouble we will once more brief- brief t y explain it When the United States and GerA Ger- Ger A J l la in ill the the interest of th their ir in interest eres gatherers gatherers- I. I d determined to take from silver its rightful pre pre- as primary money mone- the natural result fol- fol f Slowed lo Silver was vas made a mere commodity like 9 non won All the burden fell upon gold and the two twoS two'S t ii drew a apart S 'S a t in in price It was as it would be bethe t i ici the the worlds world s 's governments to declare that J no more mor flour should b be made of i ii wheat heat t but that henceforth all bread tread must be made madeT T V-V V oJ corn corll Jf If they had this power and could enI en en- t I fol o it the natural result would be would it not f t that J t wheat would shrink in value and corn would l' l nc S gh that l legislation o silver v r in n go gold goldiss iss ha haS haS' shrunk shrunk- m measured by gold 60 60 per pel Vl Fv F- F to S t S. S S. S v I. I cn t f S I I S I But Bit t has l been the tie immemorial lial mon nion money V Vv j y of c v China Japan JaJan India arid the Straits Settlements S 'S her the thc worlds world's p people are arc huddled d. d Aid none pl pf o. o those countries has demonetized silver While Japan ha has declared for a gold standard hat has been een merely in the interests of her fore for- for v. v reign e settlements she p pays js her wage earners in ill silver at the old rates so does docs China and and India V tS Of Of course anyone can Call see tee that this means that these countries can now produce goods which nt a in ill n gold are cent cheaper than she 7 ul l' l pr ht Q the s me goods twenty five years ngo ago But our merchandise chandis measured in Chinese mo money oney ey co costs s 60 per cent more nore than it did twenty- twenty S V five years sago ago The nat natural ral result is that China c O o our r cou country with rice and coal and iron pr and d pig jig iron and silk and wool an and all other V ji which she has lias to s sell ll 60 cent centI I per v cheaper than formerly She can now mine ironto iron V to sore ore smelt jt- jt ity convert it into steel roll it it into J bafs l S ship it from a point inland GOO miles s send nd it A the great river load it upon a ship and nd send f it to l us and sell it at a price which defies compe- compe it on S 1 We Ve f fought against Chinese competition forty 1 T rS ago go Now Nov solely th through our own legis- legis J I China can keep her people at home and and fr m that hat home can send us iron and and coal a r i ud other articles and defy our c Is Is it not time time for or our labor unions to o a arouse ouse CS 1 Is Ts it not time tune for the American peo peo- nl and atil congress v to rouse arouse themselves and dev dei de- de i this wrong should be l undone Will Vill f wc tern eru congressman lay these facts before the theS S and insist that an international conference l 1 le called all d to restore silver on such terms as are arc just tp to it its old place as money |