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Show H i 1VAITI.N0 I OK TIIK H.UV.V B The announcement comei from the H Kuttuit money It abundant it two H ' ioJ one-half per cent Interest on call. H It would not mitttr muoli to us lu the B Weit K it were only half of that; If, B Indeed, It were only tho fraction H named, became In a financial aente H the Kait hat eitaUtibeJ ceniorihlp H ortr the rott of the country, anil what' . erer conTenlent arranRemenU tha HH tnonty-cbaii?tr may make with eaoli Bi other for their own mutual benefit H, nroducea no more of an edict oultlde Hj the circle Immeillately rartlclfatloi H In iuch traniactloue than do the ottr- Hj due tnrlng tephyn. Wall atreet H It 'the ctoted of Hj nnanclal nation; ererylhlng Ron In B but nothing goal out except M the H: ArKonauta went forth, In quttt of tlio K uolden fleece, and In thli cue Intirl- B ably finding It, B Thli may be the dark hour before 1 dwj. There ! eTery reaion lor hop- B InKtoand few for believing to. One B of Ibr latter It that when nation, like B an Individual, fteti to the bottom there B l but one oourte he can then take BB upward. Another It, that when an BK individual flndthli oath on band and BB available unKjual to the requirement! BJH of hlabuilneit, he mutt obtain more BJH from aourcre other than lliote formerly B relied upon or go out of butlnrti a BBB eltuatlon whloh lometlmM rreullt In BflflflJ hit making enda meet that but for the BflflflJ atrlngenoy be might never have Bflflfll thought of, Ilatber than let every BflflflJ. thing go, he may determine to let BBBBL eoine few thtnga go or to make the H mooter tome other thing whloh pre H vloutly were H The United Htalea through ita BH duly coDttltuled agente hat BJH done mora than merely throw Into BB practical dilute half of ita couttltu. BB llonal money; It haa placed tucU BBBBfl money by rewon of bottlle trtatment H lutuoh apotltlon Until baa acquired BBBBfl bad name and thoto had been tak BBBBB ing it right along without queatlou BBBBfl and In tome cattt even giving a prr- mlumfirltflnallyjolnedlnlho eoan HHHHj tlal and looked with eutplclon and HHHHJ dlitrutt upon the once favored metal, HHHHJ Itleaomothlng like the reputation of a HHHHj cltlten, raty to loo but hard to win HHHHj back, and to we are confronted not HHHJB only with a eltuatlon meaning to HHHHJ much ready money out of circulation HHHHj that butlneai It prnitrate, but the proa HHBB pect of tbat condition continuing until H bmloeu contract, and tuutldta down H to the volume of currency repretented H by gold at the controlling factor, with HHHHj allver figuring merely at a convenient HHVH auxiliary in the ahape of change for H very limited amounta. It Ita tort of HHVB l'rocruttein bedttrad arrangement, lu H whloh butlmna mutt bo reduced until BBBBB It geta down to a level with the volume BBBBB of currency or the latter mutt he lu BBBBfl created euOiclently to be equil to the BBBBfl former. The gold to aocouipllih thli HHHHJ w e have not and cannot get, and thote HHVB who keep It where It It and the other HHB metal In the raluea and vaultt will not BHBfl have tblogi dlllerent from what they HHHHJ are. Bo we repeat, thli may be the J critical period and a meaturo or relief one way or another be forced through IHBB without muoh further delay H tltber there mutt be a wide B epread crath followed by H reduced volume of commerce, or more H of tbo wherewllh to conduot trantnc H tloni be brouiiht out and dliiemlnited. j Tliu congested condition cannot Jiet H much louger; It mutt give way to H ornithlug moro uarly normal. BBBBBJ ItliApropObitlou thatttandt torra flflflfl 'on that the governmeut It not and BBBJ haa not been doing thebett It could lu BflflflJ thu matter of a circulating medium, HBBBB evi n front thu Bhirmnii ttaudpolnt, Bflflfll Thla weunJtrrtatid looka to giU ut the only iihuuiu ol vnliivi with HBH tuch ktalut giveu to tllver n ltn rccjg HHfl nltlou us a mere mutter of temporary B oonvvnlencu miy obtaiu, but never lu HBK any event la bo u legal tender above a HBH nrtaln tlxid und trilling timi. B Ultu thu lmrdihl that HflflflB tlil would K made lnw HBVK and rnforred, wllh the unortnnua HBHl ahrlnkaguln comtmrrlal atlilra that HHflflB would enme aa a oontequenoe, It H wculd ttlll follow that tllver tul.lit HflflflB ccoupy a much hlgliur ettatu than it BB doot now, poor aud humbled at that It. BH If the limit of 1U debt-paylug ower BB weie placed at ten dollar, ulue-lentha BH ofthewulona could be paid lull; by H tuch mtani It would require a rertalu HBfl ritpeclallllty aud liability of Ita own In aplte of the law, for it would go to the tmall builneti men of tha community commu-nity and from them to the faimera and other producer!, coming and going continually, effecting exchangee and aettllng little account and thut creating activity by communltlea no matter If the guardians of tho nation kept on In their policy uf contraction. At preioot the pernlom ere not and for a long tlrao they have not been a draft on the illver ilepoilU now overflowing, over-flowing, and they might at well be 0! not. Itithltandmanyother wayi the white metal could be put to ute without with-out affrighting the detiliena of Wall itreet from their propriety or making their nlghti ileiplrt. It would uot all amount to muoh but would be doing the belt that could lie done under very unfavorable clrcuintlancet and would be an Immeniu improvement on what we are now undergoing. II we cannot bave a whole loaf, let UI by all mean! have ai large a tllce ai ponlble. The coinage of allver dollar! haa Uf n ordered or-dered ttopped; now let ui bave tbote that are iticked up In the trcatury vault. Tho point aimed at li for the government, while doing It pleatea In the milter rrgardlng lttelf, to place no blither obtlaclet In the people'! way not to utter ly disavow tho money which eeveral limes faai saved Ita credit and at leatt once taved 111 life. If the toaituon people can Hill find uie fjr It, do not reitrlct them In so doing ly either annulling the money power of allver altogtther or refuting to Issue It In small aums when It can bo dono ai well as not; and let the groveling toll-era, toll-era, the coane grained rank and file make the moat of It. If they cm extract ex-tract comfort, happlnen or even a moderate degreo of proeperlty from a debated metal and at thu same time not Infringe upon the lauded and glided and cultured arlstncraoy by ao much as the hundredth part of one per cent per annuo, why not let Hum? |