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Show They iMUiii;lo Sliver. In the Central American states gold t is almost unknown as a medium of exchange, ex-change, and a customs duty Is placed on silver. But the clever smugglers of that region recently have been caught in au attempt to evade the customs cus-toms laws to the tune of many thousand thou-sand dollars. This moves one of the Central American papers to say: "The ' silver now in circulation in the United i States Is $629,000,000, against J35.0OO.- 000 la 1S79. In the light of facts the wnr on silver exists nowhere and never did exist Here only it exists ca silver sil-ver shipping aud smuggling." |