Show I I i U UVe I DONT DON'T DO IT We Ve understand that some gentlemen here favor petitioning congress to lay a tariff on silver Ye We cannot annot help thinking that such a petition would be he a a. great mistake In the first place it would make a commodity merely out of silver just at a time when the signs arc are more than usually promising I that hat within the next year there will be an ai adjustment adjust I ment mont reached through which if a basic mone money value values I is s not given to silver by international agreement so large arge an n increase in the use of silver will be made mades as s to substantially increase its price There is still another feature At present most of the silver of i Mexico ico comes through our country tor for refining and sale ale Most 1 of our own ow-n silver and the silver that comes omes to us from Mexico finds sale abroad in Great Britain for India in France and Germany Now were vere we to lay a tariff on silver the Mexican silver would be shipped direct from Tampico and Vera VeraCruz VeraCruz VeraCruz Cruz to Europe from Cobalt via Toronto and Quebec to o Europe and the tue worlds world's market wOl would d be he practically closed against us Unless China changes her ler standard it will be only a question of a brief period when the western world will have to make silver ilver money again or lose uncounted trade ages Better move on some other than tariff lines to help silver |