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Show A DEMOCRATIC OPPORTUNITY. The Democrats in congress are losing a great ojrportunity these dayt. They ara dickering over son small things when they ought to strike higher. They know that despite all the boom talk the bnsi-- bnsi-- mi of tb eauotry -is depranatl. Thay-ought-tu know that ona great reason for this is because the volume of money in actual circulation in the country coun-try baa not nearly kept up with the increasing volume vol-ume of business. They can aee thia in many ways. - Man cannot sell property for half what it cost thtm. Tha banks cannot lend half the money that tha people want to borrow and ean give good security se-curity for tha loan. Now if. they would introduce tad paaa a me astir e commanding the issue of 1000 millions of dollara (a m per eent bonda, payable twenty years hence, at the same time ordering the bonda to ba issued in greenback aiza and amall de-nominatiooa, de-nominatiooa, ao that the people eould use them aa money, and order tha expenses of the government to be paid in these bonda, that would, in three montha, ao much add to tha volume of money in actual circulation that the change in business conditions con-ditions would be marvelous. At tha same time it would add to tha money held by the people ao much that tha fver present fear of panics would pass way. It would not hurt tha backers a bit ; they would, with tba increased business and confidence, be landing more) money thaa averand not one of them would be obliged to hold the percentage of deposits that it now doe In-order to be safe. Such a law passed now would, by tha time tha conventions conven-tions meat next aura me r, find tha country ringing-with ringing-with prosperity. Wera tha measure to be passed by tba house aad rejected by tha senate that would giva tha Democrats a new slogan for the next eara- paign: "We tried to do way wtyv the depression and to 'make money, an honest measure of values, but tha Republicans would not permit it. Give na chance and wa will help tha country out I" It would be a mighty catching cry juat now, for so . sura as tha world enterprises are halting all over tha country for want of a national volume of money to push them through. The cry of tariff opprea- st 00 will not avau, for, first, the people will not . believe it, and, aecond, they distrust the ability of tha Demoeratio party .to frame a fair tariff law, . ,ior they find that whenever they aerateh any leading lead-ing Democrat through tha euticla down to the quick he ia a believer in a tariff for revenue only. There ara millions of dissatisfied Republicans in tha country, for they believe that while this or that supposed wrong ia being attacked, tha great trouble of tha country is in its financial system, which, has enabled less than 100 men in New York by their combine to make tha millions of the country coun-try mera aervitora to swell their own fortunes. |