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Show SILVER ADVANCING. The silversmiths, without . regard .to Secretary. Shaw,;have advanced: the. price. of, silverware, charging charg-ing thatrthe raw material has advanced. r May' be the difference between 66 and 75 cents per ounce makes a large difference on an article that weighs four ounces,' but it would' be better to state the real fact, which is that the advance is merely in response to the general advance in all prices ' caused by the abundance of money in the countrj ithat -a bushel 6f wheatr or .a .day's labor, buj-s-'mtwe' money. than, it :did-three years ago......'. But . silyer: ..really is swiftly . advancing. China wants all there is in the world; India wants lots of it; nearly all the countries of Europe want to increase in-crease their coinage; England wants it to supply her I Oriental colonies, India and the Straits Settlement ; everywhere there is a demand. Secretary Shaw refused re-fused to buy": at 75 cents last week.. He is liable to pay 80 cents week" after next. - -The' silver chicken is coming home to.roost on the perch of the goldbiigs. and it seems a strong,, healthy bird, despite their twenty years' struggle to kill it. They had-better gravely state, when Congress meets, that the United States has no standard but gold, but to facilitate exchanges with silver-using countries, coun-tries, it will accept silver in exchange with such countries at $1 per ounce. That would regulate the value of- silver the world around, sq soon as the cable could carry the -news, and settle the matter for years to come. . - - - -- : |