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Show the no-izmr. mid the zozzztz. i 1 In the old days when the silver question was on, Ztx. Eoberts, who is now director of the mintwith the whole Mint and Treasury department officers -was a furious 'gold man s In those days it was curious curi-ous to note how the bankers and bondholders of New York, rewarded veryone in the. Treasury and Mint departments when they happened to get out of office.: ' , .CAs soon , as the term" of a mint director was out, he got a place as a director or cashier or something cle in some bank at a high salary: When Mr? Eckels left. the Treasury. department he. was given control. of-V great bank in Chicago. "When Mr. Carlisle left the Treasury he opened a modest law office in New York and more business was showered upon him in a1' year than he had been able to obtain in all the years he had lived in the State where he was born, ' and among the friends who had known" him from youth.' : '.Mr. Roberts has been taken care of all these years, as was the Comptroller of the Currency who engineered the bill through Congress to demonetize silver- " Grover Cleveland has been able to live at bis ease in Princeton, with more maney than all the Presidents before and since his day were able to accumulate in all their lives, although he, when in his prime, was not able to make a living in pne of the most prosperous cities .in .the Union, and had 'to accept a county office to eke out a living. And 'now, Mr. Roberts is given to talking wisely about finances; indeed he has always had a gift that way. He gives the undulation of prices and he starts as Ids basis the prices in 1803-4 and 95. He shows how tremendously they have increased. He either does not know the facts, or trusts that the people have .forgotten, the facts that the prices in 1893-4 and 95 merely represented the debts and poverty of the ipeople. V In those days he was wont to treat with scorn the statement of silver men that the depression was due to the fact that prices had fallen down as the money of the country had decreased, and there jwould be no resurrection until the volume of money was restored. That it has been restored through ineans which no man at .that day could anticipate, is po matter, the infamy of that robbery through the demonetization of silver stands out bold and clear (lind the dullest man in the universe ought to be 'able to see it. ; , |