Show r It WHERE IS THE MONEY COMING FROM 1 Mr James Jame H Hill says railroads need a billion a year for tOl at least five lire years to make needed improvements equipments and in the tho extension of their lines to meet the swelling traffic of this tins country Now five billions of dollars is just about the amount that this world has in gold old coin If all aU that thatIs thatis thatis Is required for the railroads alone how are the other nall affairs affair of the country to be carried along How about canalizing the Mississippi and adjacent rivers i I so that they can take their part in transporting the I crops of tho country to the sea coast 1 How about t draining the swamp lands and putting the idle men in inthe inthe the tho country to work How about coast fortifications wl which are arc solely needed both east and west 1 How Bow about more battleships and a merchant marine Then again we suspect that right at this moment there are arc quite being c. c expended in house building in the United States These are only a few v of oft the tho t o items Where is tho the money to come from to carr carry carryall all rill these enterprises along 7 Europe has has' been in some somo countries a thousand ii and ld id others fifteen hundred years getting her original resources utilized and making homes for people All that we wo h have ve done has been practically in the last I hundred ye years rs and we are not limited to a few thousand thousand thousand thou thou- sand square miles as the empires of the old world are arc we e have havo single states bigger than any anyone one of them except Russia When en a farm o of a acres res with one house is c ti in n tw two five acre thousand thousand acre farms then another r l house use is needed and with each partition one more house is needed So that when the farms average only acres it takes houses instead of one as asit asit asit it was in the beginning In the meanwhile some churches have to be built some some me schoolhouses some hospitals ls some public halls 4 J i s 's jUne no jails s sonic some mc hotels That shows why this coun- coun f try J mere 1 re mone money than any other in the world f J hp p building permits in ill Now hew York ork Cit City alone will R bably rC reach h 40 this year Then there f. f Ji A e public buildings all over the United States to be bel l Tilt We have one in Lake we suspect one will t J 0 p o needed in nearly neady every western state because the linal bu buildings were put up on the theory that I y would be e st sufficient for a hundred years the east i t e comprehending what the tho west is doing Tt seems to us to-us us that some means must be adopted A o the money volume of the country or a new newl l uncial system YEt m will have to be bo made gold will have ve 7 r- rt Jb t be demonetized antI and paper money on the credit of i 1 e a country issued with which men may do business We a- a are abot not bot sure that that would not be the best n What men en want of money is something that icy y can buy bui and sell and use without any discount tl II the credit behind it all aU is simply tho the stability t our om reP UD republic bc because ause th the tha present standard which often been likened to a pyramid with the apex he Ie e ground i is getting too big one of these days it its s either liable to fall on its side or like a rotten ice ice- to d disintegrate integrate and disappear The papers papers I r told us yesterday that the ambition i 1 fr Ir Aldrich g ri h Bras was to frame a currency s system for foru for u i itry which h would be sufficient for all al its J nits inta 1 z We think his idea is to found it on the debt of j 4 and have it grow as the debt grows That II 1 I do da if he will ill ignore gold just treat gold as silver sixteen years ears ago have hae it declared by gress z si to be a mere commodity good for the art arts 1 f money Nasby's s idea must have o been a good good i i a 9 after ter all aU when he started that bank at the cross- cross s. s i c country Is getting too big for its mone money |