Show THE NEW YORK SUN AND SILVER i Th The New v e York Sun after pa paying laving a de deserved corn cons IP tp o t the e lIon Iron Charles T Tames Hughes Jr who has hns just b been elected a n senator from Colorado Colora o says lire We Ve wish well to Mr 11 h Hughes u hes but his coming into the Washington stage b means menns the departure re in inthe inthe the senate of a familiar and aud strong figure T With th the exception of his nearly three years of ice service as secretary sec see letar of or the interior in Mr 1 Arthurs Arthur's cabinet the lion Hon Henry Moore Teller has been senator since 1876 Apart from the silver heres heresy which he hc shared with the people of his state and which he defended cd with a knowledge and skill remote from the vague and sentimental sen sen- yammering of so many silver advocates he has been and remained substantially a Republican etc That is all right except some l people eople are arc a little b bit t tired of the reference of the eastern press to the sentimental yammering ammering of so many silver o cates What does docs the New ew York Sun know about the tha silver question 1 What is there in the history of the whole vh le business before and after the tion of silver to give to the Sun authority for its lofty condescension in speaking of silver men 7 Is France anee filled with the U silver heresy and sentimental s v yammering ammering in regard to it Y France i is a little republic compared with the great republic on this side but France Prance happens to alya always s have been a silver country and just now its people are arc mo moro more o se generally aUy pros prosperous e ous than those of any other country of 01 Europe pe and it has more gold in in its national bank than any other two nations in the theold theold theold old world Had Hadnot not the editor of the Sun better sit down and study the silver question some time for fifteen minutes and cease to assume that he about J a a question of he be he really eally knows nothing Y The Sun often speaks of our trade frade with China and the orient generally generall Has it considered that matter these last two or three years ears 1 Has it ever ver taken into comprehension the fact that our country is killing its trade with the orient j just st qs as s fast as ns it can by its stu stupid pid and dishonest nest course toward silver Does Docs it ever stop to think that half hal the people of the world are re rein in that orient and that they know no money but hut allver sil all silver ver cr that they are just now nov being modernized r that they are building up great manufactures that thc they S Sare are paying for labor only half what thc they y paid thirty years ago which enables those manufacturers to sell their goods vastly cJu cheaper than the they did thirty years yean can ago Does it not see that t as things are now tending in ina a few years more our trade with China will be simply simply sim sim- P ply 1 Y the purchase of some some of oher her r and the sale o of none of ours Has it studied the exchanges lately Has it seen them steadily falling until the ahi ships s o of Mr Harriman and Mr tIre Hill lull are in swinging ing idly on their chains in San Francisco and Seattle harbors t Is i it l not lot time to give gi up an taking the word of some bondholders bond bond- holders in New York YOlk or some great pleat hunk hank that there theres is s no mone money but gold gohl and to look the thin thing straight in ill u the face 1 And nd speaking of Senator Teller tho the Sun published pub pub- the other othel day a note from him hint that he lie did not expect tho the silver l lver question to be settled yet for pcr- pcr Imps haps laps a generation What did he lie mean menn 7 Could he have meant an anything thing that he thought it would woud take a generation still to educate educato those eastern financiers financiers finan finan- ciers up to a 11 real knowledge of mane money and to see their heir mistake in what the they did thirty 3 years cars ago b and fifteen years vears ago in destroying half the money of the world so that what the they collect collected cd in interest and principal would buy huy more of the worlds world's s 's property 1 We Te commend a kindergarten to the editor of the Sun the Times rime and the other editors in New York who vho have never yet ret understood the silver question tion but nit who have taken the word of some interest gatherers gatherers gath gath- as ns to the status of the question not knowing or at least not caring what the etre effects ts of those interest in in- crest terest gatherers gatherers' opinion might be upon the general prosperity of the republic |