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Show change the chirking of the work eeem to ui u bordering closely upon the southeast boundary of Utopja. But are the department the only placer where a change of standard ia needed I At present the government ia obliged to be on ita guard ceaselessly, ceaseless-ly, lest acme combine gather up the paper promises prom-ises afloat, dump them upon the treasury with a demand for' redemption in gold, and thus force th6 issuance of more interest bearing bonds. We saw this done once, at a mighty coat to the government. gov-ernment. -' - Is little France ever made anxious by any such ftart Is it nut time to realize and. recognize the palpable pal-pable fact that the mistake of the age was made when silver was demonetized? And when mistake mis-take ia made through legislation, is there anything dishonorable in correcting the mistake through more enlightened legislation f That legislation was effected through a. cry of sound money. It wat. a specious cry, raised by the gold combine, which first had all' debts mado payable in specie and then, by eliminating silver, of 'course they were all payable in gold: their interest .was as- sured for years to come necause. measured in gold, all the property of taxpayers shrunk 50 per cent in value, which indefinitely prolonged the interest bearing debts they owed, and added to them. Tha result ia seen by the fact that less than twenty hanker- in New-York hava. gathered lo themselves the control of all the gold in circulation, and the titles to a vast percentage of the property of the country. Now, money depends for its value solely on ita recognition aa a unit by which all values of every form of property may be measured. Silver never depreciated in the least ao long aa it had by law the same recognition as gold. Suppose congress should by law declare that the nnit of our currency, the dollar, should be 25 8-10 grains of gold or one ounce of silver; that each should be a legal tender for all purposes and that all silver mined in the United Statea should be received and paid for In Bilver cetiflcatea or ai'ver dollars at that figure, would not that, legislation legis-lation bring around transformation in a dayf And could the measure be passed to become a law in sixty days, ao aure aa the sun shicee silver would be worth dollar an ounce before the sixty days wera passed yes, before one-tenth of sixty days had passed. It. would be worth $1 per ounce everywhere every-where ao aoon aa the cablea could carry the news, and money matters all around the world would be normal once more. THE STANDARD OF VALUES. In the current 'Atlantic Monthly is an article ' o '"Federal Expenditure Under Modern Condi-ticcti.".by Condi-ticcti.".by W. 8. liobsiter. After stating the condition con-dition the writer prescribes, what l.e believes to bo remediea .for present weakuesst-Si or wrongs. Onoof the;. remedies is: ' "The introduction of some btaudard as a' substitute substi-tute for the money standard which prevail iu the commercial world." : - Then, whe:: he come to consider thi proposition, proposi-tion, he makee it more clear that he would limit this standard to the business of the varioua departments de-partments of the governments, and concludes that the only way the substitute could come would be by "the introduction of a large" degree of human interest," and explaijs that ly that term "ia meant the increase in importance rf the personal equation and the decrease iu importance of he official or strictly formal and iiuprrsoiigj attituJe which now prevails." Then he explains that in the departments at th prebent time there are many small men intellectually; intel-lectually; that "adequate appreciation and com- pensation are seldom accorded to thoae eonwien-tious eonwien-tious employees who Jabcr faithully because of " genuine love of or interest in their duties. There is flm strict supervision of those who are mercenary, -. and no adequate discipline fur thoae (and there a.t many) who vbirk their task.." A western miner would nay the remedy for that would he to get new nhift b.tsAes. . As it is. the great majority are there either aa civil service employee or as a reward for political sr-ri.es sr-ri.es to some senator or representative, snd all the intercut they hr.ve iu the work in the salary. One would think the remedy would be to put each department de-partment under the charge of a working boas, with instructions to see that each employee performed hie work. Then it would be economy at the end eai-b year to give a present of. jiy, an extra month's pay to euch tne -who hud during the yetr shown erKTil energy and ability either this or t.r-.'iiiKtii'U.' IIuw to substitute a new atandard to |