Show 90 fly tt td the fall in prices of tile the products of labor double the amount of every debt that you owe it takes just twice as many pounds of cotton to pay a debt under the gold etan standard dard as it did alen silver was wags being coined Is any more argument needed Sta tebor ga st sti call th LIBERALS AND SILVER 3 taht thrown upon the th result of the eto E to P sir morton morion frowen the eminent englich bimetallist throws some light upon the lato late contest for seats in the british parliament in a letter to the atlanta constitution lie says tile the attitude of sir william har court and the right eight HOD G george c orge shaw Le lefevre ferre in dealing with the currency question in mr Glad stones cabinet had served to concentrate the efforts of mr air Gren feUs fells parlia mentar committee upon tile the of derby and r tedford bradford in deilly dei by the silver vote had merely the effect of somewhat swelling the great majority against mr BIT glad stones late chancellor chancello r 0 of t the ho exchequer but in bradford d th the aaste abstention of some sixty liberal voters vi who ho had drifted together almost by ac accident j the day before the election has sufficed to retire from public life that eminent statesman mr shaw lefevre to mr shw shaw lefevre belongs the distinction of being the most violent and also the most ignorant t of all the members of mr Glad stones late cabinet and mr lefevre was defeated by a majority of only forty one votes by mr who unbeknown to mr lefevre had written to mr grenfell that he was heartily in favor of an international settlement of our silver trouble after the bradford election mr john mclaren who had in lobbied b I 1 these sixty total abstainers abstain ers 1 wrote r cil Is frankly s to mr lefevre Lef evro pointing out that the fall fal in ahe exchange with asia aaa had do de alloyed the leading industries of the korthof north of england Englan dand and declaring that a grow ing section of the liberal party was determined at all 11 future elections to sea this silver lifter issue through to the bitter erld end tho the last letter of the series which has passed between mr mn and mr mn mclaren shows the irritation and the amazement of those Gladston ians who have hitherto held the view that this great creditor nation could be relied upon to heap untold d buivens upon its debtors end and support any monetary policy which by reducing prices would increase tile a amount bount of produce paid to EU england biond in III the form of interest on her foreign foreia la loans lt me only add that mr W H Gren felTs fells vigorous canvass has for or the first time at anese recent elections election brought the currency question within the domain domaha of practical politics I 1 am not for a moment depreciating either cither the intelligence or the earnestness earnest nesi of the bimetallic league hitherto but that league lies has contented itself far too much with protests and pamphlets and it is only fair air to mr grenfell Gru ofell to say that albeit the elections ii ere sprung upon him very unexpectedly he has contrived to import into not a fen fe constituencies that modicum of passion which was required to enlist the men in the street on the side of currency reform your readers may remember that when the efforts ol of mr bet tram train currie lord ferrer fair I 1 NN illiam harcourt Ilare ourt and mr air lefevre had closed the mints of india in 1893 as 3 and enact chiep ived of our fellow subject of any money metal v eci coi e c oi ci mr grenfell at that time a supporter ol of sir fr GlA glasstone istone resigned signed rc his seat for hereford in disgust I 1 think the zeal and energy devoted to the cause causa of reform by this gentleman will N ill ma make him in man r fri friends bends amongst those industrial acim communities abroad which are suffering severely from the fall in the price of what they export a fall which has been engineered here by that legislation which has appreciated the money stand standard ard |