Show GOLD FOR MEXICO The Republic of Mexico has every cry resource and advantage to make maIm it one of the most prosperous na ni It i is it admirably situated between two oceans and links two continents It has a soil rich in all natural products mountains teeming with metals precious and im inexhaustible forests abounding in the lie most valuable timbers Its climate is most salubrious salu salu- and inviting its territory large and its Government Gov Gov- now now stable an and firm Gen rio Diaz has given gi tho sister republic republican an TIn administration wise equitable and salutary We Ye hear no longer Cl of revolutions re disturbing and devastating de that land landof landof landof of promise Millions of European and American capital have e a been in consequence within the last quarter century invested hl in Mexico exico But Bitt at last a n. cloud has bas arisen on all the horizon The Mexican cx can silver sil sil- vetS ver dollar has depreciated so much that it is now practically worthless s as a medium of exchange The Mexican Herald sa says s 's of the steady depreciation de de- IC- IC of the white metal Our pauperized peso is IS at once our despair and admiration we all felt greatly di dismayed when some years ago the eagle dollar which had once proudly stood at par pal and above e in London and the far East fell to GO 60 cents gold valuation Hanl Bankers ers and und business men shook their heads t the prey lICY of doleful forebodings But nut what would we wc not give gi today today government government railway corporations and merchants merchants for for a dollar stead steady year ear in and year out at GO 60 cents That would seem an ideal condition native industries would voule be he amply protected l by hj the hc gold goll premium in ill addition to the tile tariff the railways w would uld find lind their net earnings most substantial to gaze upon and railway managers would feel an ac accession of fresh courage all importers would consider consid r that they Ii had ad solid ground beneath their feet But unless a L miracle miracle mira film cle dc occurs the silver fiher peso the Mexican dollar even en yet Jet with prestige in the far East is doomed to drop still farther Mexico exico is as far fUl as as prices are concerned concerned con practically cill on a hold gold old basis bass but without the benefits of an nl Uli currency The fhe recent and continuous heavy output of gold old from the worlds world's IS I'S deposits s j is indeed c changing prices ery e every where But this tills change is not so marked or so violent vio yb- lent as in the case of silver There Theme is a growing grow grow- in lug ing feeling that Mexico will eventually c adopt the gold standard But with President Diaz in iu the Chief Magistracy and Senor Limantour in iii the Minish Ministry of Finn Finance the whole subject of m monetary difficulties i s and adjustments there will be dealt with wi wisely ly and nd prudently er Jy and the silver sil interests suffer suITer no injustice much le less spoliation tion The coal oal barons either have ha or they have c not the li right ht to put fuel in New hI-New New York up to l a aton f ton n It It is 1 n a a matter of sentiment It is a moral amoral wrong no doubt built thus to oppress their fellow fellow- beings s but if it be le in III accordance with the li rights guaranteed the the barons under the law and law and we must not for forget et the people mul make e the fhe law let law let us not cry cro out ut tit too bitterly The rule of trade trade demand demand e and supply is supply is as f fair l t for one as f for r another The public pub pith I lic ownership of coal mines would give New ew Yorkers York er ers era their theil coal at nt possibly 3 5 i a ton This is the remedy remedy reme reme- dy the socialists offer otTer But what what- right has the Government Gov Joy to seize the coal fields s any more than the wheat fields and the tile gold mines We Ye fear the tile Goth both will have ha to put up or shiver this winter |