Show tet LET THEM DO THEIR WORST the treasury department though tit at its diw wms eod end to keep up the gold reserve la is aMpo llod to go ff on purchasing silver duch it does not want and which only auls to its if embarrass embarrassments ments bo speaks the boston traveler a mouthing weak minded senile sort of net agat Is clear only on the subject 0 of liquor prohibition and not practical even at that while very P insipid and drooling on every other question before the world today SOU it supplies Applies a text that to is worthy ot of bome comment the rhoa dispatches have told us ue all kinds of stories regarding the issue of gold bond by the department the OOL of which should hould be to preserve inU jn uncle nole sams vaults a comfortable 9 jd reserve against heavy foreign M boutil the report we was first that aoh bond would be issued and second that they would not then came the news that Soure secretary tary foster was upon that plan of meeting the train and the president was content to leave it to his discretion and right upon the aeto f this announcement oame oae a denial to the effect that the had bad resolved to make inosa no olg issue and would try to meet natal demands until the ath of march alter which the difficulty gouid not biot come too soon for those chose who had bad so narrowly escaped it in tain minda mind of cooler temperament there has arisen grave question whether theror or not the secretary of the treasury had the authority to issue such bonds without congressional permission and to remove all possible doubt it has been urged that the bill of senator sherman providing for a three per cent short term bond should be hastened to its passage all of this ground and lofty tumbling excites more or less lees of a smile among western people who decline to be bamboo bamboozler bamboozled rAea by financier ing acrobatics and whose intelligence up to date permits t them hem to distinguish at least as accurately as we he average easterner between a hawk and a handsaw if there is a public man in this country today who does not know how important a part silver played in the te resumption of specie pay payments mente when there was not nearly gold enough on hand to redeem the outstanding greenbacks green backs or even the national bank notes if there is a public man who does not know that what made lion a success was not the actual presence of the yellow coin but the assistance of the white metal and above all the declaration of the government that the paper could be exchanged on demand tor lor the coin if there to is suen a man particularly among those who now pompously undertake to discuss financial legislation he be ought to go to school again and devote diligent study to the post bellum money history of his country what was done in those days can and ought to be done again one word from the government today would place law gold and silver oh an equal toting footing and do away with gold board boarding ing and gold shipment tuat that the government has a right to say may that word no one will question but no there to is a discrimination silver it has baa been debased the gold bugs assert alaert that its coinage and circulation will be to put a premium on gold just juat as the same gentry predicted that the holders of gold at the date fixed axed for specie resumption would have the money market in their control their predictions came to naught for proof was given that the way to resume was to resume and that uncle sams word was good they rhey would be proven just as false today for one bold word from the united states treasury department exercising its undoubted right to pay the debtor in coln coin 11 1 either gold or silver would solve the whole difficulty still no DO such courage is to be expected from the prose present nt administration and probably not from the next we despair of any aid from executive sources and have little hope from the legislative branch as aa at present oon what then shall be done to relieve the pressure upon the gilded brain of wall street and its sycophants sycophant and upon the delicate intellect of papers like the boston traveler which we have quoted go CIO un on purchasing silver which the he government does not want and which only adds to its ena em we are ready to give the answer nol no it if the administration wants a bit of western advice here it is quit purchasing silver repeal the sherman law relieve the treasury do de apartment part ment of its embarrassments embarrass ments and wall street of its anxieties force this thib issue and do it at once enoel I 1 we of the be west would suffer buffer for perhaps 60 days perhaps even 90 but after that the boot would pinch on the other foot besides our beat interests are being at present slaughtered by inches can they more than die it if ane worst be precipitated instead of postponed the nas is in a friend of silver we believe in its if royalty its purchasing and debt paying power we believe it has been shamefully treated at the caprice if not as the crime of a certain element in our jaa tion we ardently desire its restoration to power and believe that in such action and only such to is there financial security for all sections of the country but we lire are tired of pleading its case as though bough it were a mendicant and we ire are willing to have its enemies do their worst we are not only ready to invite them to this course but are sati satisfied aled of the wisdom of forcing them to it if all the friends friend of silver in and out of congress would unite in ahls plan of campaign victory would be ours within a twelvemonth and the gaping would be toft without a log leg to stand on |