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Show value! to a m?re commodity. Our ida is that the very firat ti.inij thia government ahould do would b to remoneJize silver on aome fair basis .with gold, n th const it ntion directs, or it should call d international conferenoe to do tha. same thin. The world needs all the silver that can he saved from the arts for money, and it needs it more and more every year. And we think a proposition to remonetize silver on a fair basis with gold would not receive any special opposition .wyvhere.in the country, because New York sees its mistake, so do all the other eastern oities. And when we say a fair ratio, we want it kept in mind that recognition recogni-tion is what gives value to money, and that while recognition for silver wa the same as for gold, silver sil-ver never for one moment depreciated 1 penny an ounce, and with the same recognition restored silver sil-ver would be restored, because, as we have often said, it has every attribute that gold has with the single difference in density. It has lusttr, it h:ia malleability, it. has indestructibility, it has ductility, ductil-ity, it cannot be obtained in quantities sufficient to possibly meet the money demands of the world, and it waa this particular feature that caused the nen of the old world to set aside gold and silver us precious metals when the commence or the world did not amount to as much as the commerce of a single state i : our republic amounts to now. ft would do more to atop the oscillations, in business, to stop the fear of panics, to steady the currency Af lhft nmiry jliqr. npy P-tT BCt. that TOngrfltS possibly could pass would do. It is just as good as gold, and its real ratio, measured aa the ancients measured it, by labor that ia the .mount of labor necessary to produce the two, is just about 16 to 1. When men do a wrong the majority of them hate exceedingly. to admit it, and hate worse still to make honest retribution. But this warfare on silver sil-ver waa a warfare on every man's pocket, a warfare war-fare on the property of the world, and that ia ao plain now that we would think the men who deal altogether in money would unanimously demand its restoration, because compared' with the products prod-ucts of the earth the utmost that can be obtained is very small. For instance, all that could be obtained ob-tained from the mines cannot pay for the hen's eggs that the people of the United States consume every year. There is a double reason for demanding demand-ing its restoration now, because China, with its 400,000,000 of people, is just starting in its mighty expansion. There is an empire that covers one-twelfth one-twelfth of the solid lands of the carlh, and it is che purpose of the government to gridiron that whole country with railroads. There ja no money to pay her laborers but silver money. She would be glad to absorb all the silver that the United States could produce,-and right there comes another reason, because be-cause there is a present situation, with our gold standard exclusive and with her silver standard exclusive, which gives her every moment 60. por cent the beat of us in trade. That is, our expots to 'China"a're stmt off because' of that 60 per cent, her exports to tht United States are increased as much aa would naturally come with the 60 per cent discount from the price she charged a generation ago'. The remonetization of silver is an absolute necessity to readjust tKe exchanges of the world, and any intelligent American who will study the question without prejudice for twenty minutes will reach that same conclusion. HEN'S EGGS AND SILVER. The census bulletin gives the vaiue of the farm animals, poultry and bees in the state of Wisconsin af the thirteenth decennial census. The aggregate value of all domestic animals, poultry and bees in 1910 is placed at 158,5o4.000, against 06,3-28.000 In 1900, an increase of 64 per cent. Domestic animals ani-mals increased from 1 M.605.000 iu 1910. against t3I2lJOno in 1900, an increase of, 64.3' per cent. Poultry increased 85.4 per eent. bees decreased 4.4. Strangely, too, horses and colta eueeJed in value tha cattle, nearly doubling in tbe ten years. Cattle increased 43.9 per cent. There is much more to the report, but we only mention the above to ahow how .eeatary a correct cor-rect measure of values is. ami how foolixb waa the U-gelation which changed silver from a uyasure of |