Show HAT WILL CONVENTION DISCUSS r 9 i iVe Ve Ve notice in a morning paper that there is a aa ai i lf of of a discussion of the si silver ver qu question ti n at l- l nl next interstate commerce meeting That is IS all ig it we trust the n discussion will be he had If it will r i do o P good it will not be liable to do any any harm if ii t lose at the congress have any clear idea of what tI they elare are discussing The truth is those who have havo charge J of the finances of this country are just now in 1 the tle middle of a mighty close place on the silver f r- rl l question 1 tion The best of them do not know which way to turn and save their credit They def de tie f ti silver as money money by a a brutal use of f money moner s Jj a sneaking act which under false pretenses they first t pushed through congress then by perverting 4 press under their control misguiding the peo peo- le than by bringing on the panic of 93 giving h the president who was in full accord with them the U to in extraordinary excuse convene congress 1 fJ session e sion and to a bill through congress tc finally take from silver all its original prerogatives y as as primary money In the meantime they had crushed out nearly or quite all th the men who ten years before had hd hoped through their capital and la labor to make for fot themselves and their or children hildren an anin v in l And they had drawn to a few bondholders and interest gathe gatherers ers the bulk of t the le t n and property of f the country I hen most v st opportunely o l po l the there c began T i to be be- bea a mighty increase in in the worlds old l' l s gold supply Th The Theft ft i i anide I process c s the h dis discovery o of gold o d' d in n Cripple C Creek Cek the Rand and West Vest Australia to eki began rei reinforce re- re i the worlds world's gold supply to a tremendous I extent nt Then a drought which for three years ears destroyed de- de toyed the crops of sout southern ern Europe India Ar- Ar j gentine and Australia gave to the American farmer t t a a market at enhanced prices for all he could pro- pro il ce e. e Th Then n the engineers' engineers strike in Great Britain which lasted three years gave American manufacturers manufacturers t ers a rich market with the result that in three cars ars' ars the United States drew a balance in trade Iq itself of in gold Then our wise vise statesmen exulted and charged the change to the g standard and the Dingley law This went on t r eleven years ears and every year jear the report was fi i- i our balance of trade trad was quite g. g egold supply was also increased by thousands 9 91 1 millions million'S of d dollars and we all hugged our- our r elves lY s as a great people But in iq 1907 there came fy fi t ts s surprise Two or three of the big moneyed M J tion ons of New Kew York having haying overplayed o themselves them- them r selves JS selves were forced to close their doors and with f them Jm t l all the the rest closed and to live at all the mem- mem em- em of the tle New Kew York clearing house had to get got back to to back and certify that the others in the company were all right And nd the heart at the com corn ni pi f ial center having ceased to beat there was QT and paralysis everywhere The stoppage of l ili ads the throwing out of employment ot of mil mil- t of oi laboring men men men-a a national financial l collapse golden calf that they had had fallen down to wor- wor hip could not save them In addition they found I t the export trade of the country to quite one- one fiU alf the people of tile the earth had been destroyed In Addition l tion Great Groat Britain more because of her closing k mints in India than from all other causes was was was' j about to be he confronted there by a i great rebellion t nd that danger deepens every e day dar That is is the isit situation and not one journal in the east dares dares to 4 t ll the r real al truth b because cause to do lo so o would be to nf ss that for twenty five years jears their treatment silver has been but sounding brass and anti a tinkling tink tink- l ling n cymbal Originally silver and gold were measures of z labor Jt lab r the labor required to produce each and the tW was vas fixed at bout about 15 to 1 Both oth were wei-e val- val Jl ble especially becat because se they were the accepted measures of values Neither failed until that thai prerogative was denied silver which doubled the value of gold measured by hy anything that men can produce Now to tal talk of an enlarged use of silver without restoring that prerogative e is in iii our judgment t baby talk To fix its value at 65 63 c cents per ounce ounce would be he a cowardly compromise What will vill the convention talk about in connection I with silver I |