Show MAKE A TRY FOR SILVER Vic We think the Commercial club chub of this city in might glit do the west and the whole country good by bj issuing under its authority a petition to congress asking forthe for foi the tho restoration of silver to its old place as primary money at the rate of 1 per ounce and stating tersely the reasons for such petition and then sending copies to every state asking the people generally generall to jo join n in the petition There would be many favorable responses response and some unfavorable ones But these latter would have to state stale their reasons and we beli believe be be- li lieve ve the reasons they would be able to put out would be so flimsy that they would make the reasons for the legislation seem all the tio stronger Possibly it might be well wall to petition the government government govern govern- ment to sound the sentiment of foreign governments government by hy telegraph and cable as to what their action w would be were the l II United nt iod States to take the initiative We Wc predict that from Great Brit Britain in and Germany German the replies replie would he be e evasive e and non committal from England we wc apprehend it would be that while not noti disposed to alter its own S system it would not object i to the arrangement for India From France we believe believe be he- lieve it would be accepted cordially as also from the I nations of the orient and all nIl Spanish We believe too that the Dominion of Canada and Australia would approve The experience of the past six sic weeks ought to be he enough to cause the themen themen men of the east to use iLSC their reasoning faculties a little on the subject The great opposition would come from those national national national na na- na- na bankers in the east who want to use the present depression ion as a club to obtain the legislation legislation legislation legisla legisla- tion for insuring what they call an elastic clastic currency for their banks But there are many stubborn opponents opponents opponents op op- op- op of that in and out of of congress and they ther will need all nIl the help they can get to push it through and the they might be induced to favor re- re if thereby if-thereby they could could- get could get the needed votes With the masses of the people it will be a hard task to convince them that a silver certificate of or 1000 with the silver for redemption in the treasury is not as good as the same amount in an extra issue of national bank notes Then it is iR clear as daylight that no silver in any foreign country except Mexico l would ever come to us because for for- eign countries are n now nv absorbing about all we have to spare for subsidiary coinage then the arts exhaust exhaust exhaust ex ex- ex- ex haust half our product and finally there is an eager market for the whole product in China and will gill be for all time to come This is the opportune time Of course it would be charged that the west wants a better price for its silver That much is certainly true for the ratio now existing between gold with th the full recognition of the government and silver as a mere commodity is an outrage but really it would be of much more benefit to the country than to western miners Our trade with China Japan and South America would be vastly improved b by restoring silver there would be no more trouble with c. c exchanges changes with those countries it would place our country in closer accord with quite three-fifths three of the inhabitants tants tanta of the earth Wh Why not make the move now when the men of the east have found that after all gold in itself is of no more stable value than cotton or 01 corn 1 |