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Show ROBERTS AND THE PRICE OF. SILVER. Director of the Mint Roberts holds up the purchase pur-chase of silver at 75 cents per ounce, though he predicts pre-dicts that silver will go to that figure before two years roll around. "We suspect he will discover that he cannot get it less than at that price before the first day of January. How closely he figures. At 75 cents the Government would only clear about 60 per cent on every ounce bought and coined. How those Washington officials grieve to see silver sil-ver advancing after all they have done to destroy its value. And there is. perpetual confusion with the ex- changes; Philippine money is no good, the millions of the Orient and western Asia and Africa and Spanish Span-ish America can use no other money, and so despite ! every, effort of the men who have had charge of , American finances for the past thirty-three years, j they find that the metal they hoped they had killed j persists in steadily advancing, as a mere commodity, in such a way as to confuse all their calculations. ' There is a simple plan through which it might be j definitely settled, but they will not lest, as the old 1 woman said whose pig-had his head caught in the 1 tin can: "It hurts his pride awful;" they are so ' afraid of admitting that they were either asses or i thieves in 1873-93, that they will not do what they ' know would be the very best thing to do. t |