Salt Lake Telegram | 1919-11-20 | Page 7 | Remonetizing of Silver

I R of Silver I JENNINGS BRYAN the erstwhile and repeated oft WILLIAM v candidate for president on a platform the princ principal pat plank of which was a demand for the of silver at the honored honored ratio of sixteen to o one of gold has lived to see t that tt ratio attained without the actual process c Whether Mr Bryan will live tive to see the the cause lie espoused in in many a political speech ch become a a la law of the the tand land is PT clr Certain it is that even even in in the silver states of which h. h stands next to the top there is little tittle or no discussion on in p progress in regard to the ion of silver lI t Doubtless the possibility or cv even n probability of th the price of fc f sf lea ri ie-ri er rising ing to a point considerably above the sixteen one one point S dr r 9 per ounce has something to do with the silence now Indulged in with respect to the of the white t m I Should Should- this b be true truc then the thee charge consistently might be bell bem m ll de That bat the extreme efforts of the sil silver er states d during ring the campaigns cam cam- of a score score or more of years ago were were more more a matter of Selfishness s than of interest in behalf of the people of the whole However that may be the situation as it presents itself today to the national government the people as a who whole e and the actual producers Is one of complete satisfaction The United States is riding easily in the most magnificent golden ch chariot riot ever assembled In the history of the world worl As the greatest silver producing country country coun court try on the globe It is furnishing white metal to less tess fortunate nations at prices most alluring to mine owners owners as compared with those which prevailed during many years previous to the world war i With leading countries of Europe crying for silver to cover at least a portion of their immense output of paper money with the great harvest of silver ore continuous in the United States and with approximately a hundred million silver dollars in the national treasury which can be sold to the mint at at i an ounce for melting Into bullion bumon there Is little prospect eith either eithe i of of-a. of cessation of of t the e demand for the white metal or an advance in the price to a I point where the currency system of this be be interfered with to any considerable degree by the m melting or hoarding of silver coins f fr r