Show MEXICO AND SILVER Those del delicate easterners who arc are afraid to carry a s silver ler dollar and amI who still have fears lest the currency currency cur cur- rency of this country nay go to a silver basis just to steady tl their their ir nerves should read the history of Mexico i for the past quarter of a century because the money of Mexico l iR is silver When old man Diaz I took charge down there he lie found an empty treasury treasur the government without credit about of people of whom were peons no public publio means of transportation save by stage and pack train and aud a revenue of only r per annum That was twenty seven years ago Now the revenues arc per annum the government has built miles of railway all signs of discontent and revolution re have disappeared and the con conditions have been made so favorable that foreigners have hac gone there and invested In the whole time Lime there has never been a panic during all the time when the United States was in the doldrums after af nf- af- af tel ter the of silver and through the final assassination of or silver in 1893 Mexico l was eXl exulting t ng ngin in prosperity and has been ever since The rhe conditions conditions condi- condi that have prevailed in enlightened Franco France and half barbarous Mexico l during the past twenty five Sears years ought to make our casteri financial savants think hink |