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Show GOLD AND EMPLOYMENT Mr. Roosevelt's latest announcement on gold, in which he pledged the government to offer a market at the work! price for as much of the yellow metal as is offered to it. will have a salutary effect on this country. The purpose of the plan as affecting currency ...u1 credit expansion is of only academic interest to mi.;L of us. Its effect will doubtless be an imrvwtar.l expansion of mining activities, both here and abroad. Gold is like everything every-thing else the wider and more profitable the market, the more effort will be given to finding and dovelopming th( product. Thousands of men will find new work in the miniiig industry. in-dustry. Thousands of families will receive their livelihood because of it. And millions of dollars will be put in oircu lation, to surge through the veins of industry and speed th, work of recovery. A . |