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Show DEMONETIZING THE COWRIE. In looking after its own affairs the British gov. erhmeiit is not'given to conscientious consideration of the 'interests of other peoples. She forced the. opium trade, upon f'hina. though knowing all th time .that by the act, she. was in" fact condemning . million of 'wretches to a lingering, pitiable death. She ifosed-fit'. minis' of India when she knew that by; the.'aet she' was condemning millions, of her own sujijejits to death Uirough starvation. It aeems now thst J)e itiU pursuing the samp course. We fed 1n ifcs.Londoni'Financial News that Mr.' More-ton More-ton Frewen, M. P., has given notice of a question t tithe secretary of stste for thecolonies, which is desigriBd.td'diBrover if "the cost Of administering Nigeria ia defrayed; by fhe pro8t realized on its silver sil-ver currency, the following is the question as given tiv th NflWtfM . . j - ..-. ' ' t Ta' ash the seerstacv of ststs for tbs eoloaiea whether be- ia -swore that, to the meal eurrency of Northern Hi SU. eowriee have been hitherto full legal tender for all uea and aes, so that cowries, being regarded as standard nmaevhav eenstitutsd the hoarded wealth of million e aativea, and that for the first time during this flasscia) vwr tha cowrie currency has, aad without warning, been dentnawtited bv tha government over aa important eeetioa of Nigeria, including the great province of Ksao; whether the cowrie has been replaced ta tha Kigeriaa currency b British silver coins which are today Ike oaly unlimited legal tender enrrenev there, an that the British treasury is today During silver at less than 2a 3d par ounce nnd selling U. when coined, to the natives at the rata of Aa 6d jer onnee; whether the natives sre beginning to board this srlver .rnrrencv, wnieh' ia aa inconvertible into any stnndard money asVoWriee are. Its convertibility betas, as with cowries, subject to the fiat of tha local administration; w (iether. to protect the natives who hoard theae depreciated token -rirrer coins, bis majestr'a government will guarantee guaran-tee the eeavereina a( this British silver eurrency into irold. without limit aa to amount, at Mia rate of 20s, ar li. Amies, lor the-sovereign; whether eteva will ba taken tn introduce into Nigeria the Tadian rupee, which ia already the cnrrenev'of 'th Test 'Africa protectorate and I'gnoda, and mnch contiguous territory, which coin, unlike the shilling, shill-ing, being unlimited legal feeder over a vast portion of his Misieety's'dnmieiona-and convertible into the sovereign at fifteen r one, is unlike our token coins, o aubieet to iloyirerietloa in the money of our atandard; anil what this year waa the deficit covered by a grant la aid. and. reckoning' he absorption of coined silver in the Nigenae at aome 7iK',n(i0. waa there a Profit oa th issne of thia silver over the grant in aid. - ", ' That, in brief, indicates that the) secretary of - state for the colonies ' has destroyed what haa always al-ways been the standard of money in Nigeria and substituted not gold, but an English silver piioe which is no more convertible into gold than is the cowris which haa been displaced, and that the purpose pur-pose "behind it all is' to unload upon the wretchea of tbtt 'country a vast amount of ailver, at 5s 6d per ,ounee, which ailver England buys from the United States 'at 2a 2d per ounce. Of course it ia a shameful shame-ful robbery, but that doea not disturb the rest of English financiers in the least. But why ahould the United Statea become r-mUely-a party to the- swindling scheme t ' ' i y'by do. not the men in congress who believe in silver spring a bill upon congress to remonetise silver sil-ver on a fair basis with gold, and provide to re ceiva and coin or buy all the ailver which ia the pro duct of AmericSa.mine at that flfiiref It would h wiser legislation than has been introduced into . congress for years; it would ba a mighty reinforce-ment reinforce-ment of th money ; a vast eonveoienoa to the peo ptera sav'iDK to the people and government! a saving sav-ing fil $00,000,000 per annum to Ameriean miners which ia now absorbed annually by a combine of English thieves in London and which would before thirty days advance ailver all over the world to the value named for it in the bill t . It would, too, restore our export trade to China; it would at once clear up all the difficulties now met with in our trade with Latin America; the justice jus-tice of it and the seed of it is most apparent Is ' congress ao cowed by Wall street that it ia afraid to act f It looks so. |