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Show financier -of the world determined that, 'inasmuch as silver is ihe natural money for the poor and gold for the rich, the "fact should be recogniied and arrangements ar-rangements made accordingly. ;The bankers destroyed silver as money that the interest they collected on interest-bearing securities securi-ties would have more purchasing power, because oi the reduction of the money volume. It worked splendidly while the war debt of the United States and the great railroad debts of the United States were being liquidated ; but all that has passed, and we cannot see why those gentlemen cannot'take a business view of the matter, fix the price of silver which they would accept in exchange, and then let the metals run side by side. They, can cling to. the gold standard if they please, for final settlements, but the trade of the world with silver countries is steadily increasing, and finances never will reach a satisfactory basis until the money of the poor is recognized and has a place in the monetary systems. BE JUST TO SILVER. Bradstreet's tells us that the minimum discount in London is 6 per cent; that London secured all the gold that was received week before last, but that there was a call upon the Bank of Entrland for $3 000.000 gold for Ejrypt and South America, and there was great rejoicinp when the Bank of France bad been induced to lend $2,500,000 eold "to help !the English money market over January.'' Notwithstanding all the gold that England and the United States possess, there is a stringency ' both in London and New York, and it looks to us as though it was another reason why the nations should get together and make a definite arranere-' arranere-' : merit for silver. Because that item alone of $3,000.-000 $3,000.-000 gold was demanded for South America and i Egypt a a 'me wen London could not conveniently con-veniently spare gold, is a proof that if silver were ' 'properly fixed and had a certain value the world "around, silver would suit the business of both Egypt S "v and South America better than gold. The manifest , ' I fact that three-fourths of the people of the earth , ! cannot do any business except through silver ought ". to-be '-"enough, it seems to us, to make the -great . I -;. ' ' ' ' ' . |