Show fat afat HURTS SILVER arthas it has frequently been said that silver suffers a much at the land hands s of unwise friends friend s a it doe it at th the e hands enemies and tho following elc excerpt alt from tile speech of lion iron frank J cannon at the late Trans mississippi congress proves no exception to tile alie rule we must bave liucc free and unlimited coinage of silver at 16 to I 1 if this country desires prosperity again silver is now so cheap that miners cannot run their mines at a the value of silver must lie be increased before these mines can be without loss 1048 and the best way to incie aee the value of the lie laite hite metal is by its diee and unlimited coinage that is how the extern papers report our congress congressman inan elect anil and 1 his its speech 1 has I as proven a sweet morsel for the alie b gold bugs L to chew here is the representative of a I 1 silver producing people they say and his sentiments are naturally the sentiments of the people whom h he e r represents ep resents these anti silver men and papers have always said that the flea of the was selfish eel fish and his solicitude forthe for alie Y n hole country a hollow hypocrisy they have always said that advocates of free fice coinage 0 were trying to to build up a fe few v miners i in n tile the sparsely settled commonwealths of the west at the expense of the rich and populous states slates of the east and tile they receive mr cannon s st louis speech with g glee I 1 ee because they claim it corro corroborates b the charges T they have always made against 0 the friends of free coina iiii age ge what mr cannon should have said in order to reflect the true sentiments of his constituents was that the free coina coinage beof of silver would not only benefit the people of the west but those of the 11 east ast till that it the price of products in the east and south is as dependent upon the of silver as art are prices in the west that in fact the he 1 ease aasc with more values to be influenced b by y a double standard rd stands in greater need of free coinage age 13 of silver than any other section to inter interpose Dose our lettla oom complaint plaint against 9 the east is folly and only brinly serves to antagonize those whom we should endeavor to convert mr cannon should reflect upon tie ole awkward position in which his ill timed litno remarks place the people he has been chosen to represent and if lie he ever lias has an opportunity to 0 speak in Con congress gess should pay less attention to his rhetoric and more attention to the 0 gist of the matter under discussion |