Show THE CASE OF SILVER the gratifying announcement cornea comes that the president has determined upon having the brus brussels els congress reconvene at an early day it Is ia to be hoped he will also permit the he personnel of the united states delegation to remain unchanged or as nearly so eo as possible rne work formerly accomplished by the commissioners should scarcely be dignified by such a word amounting as it did to little more imore than preliminary feeling around but it opened the ball and t at is i something especially if toll followed owed up with vigor and before the movement loses much of its force from some of the european delegates nothing favorable is to be looked for by reason of their peculiar business relations or their pe peculiar uliar business educate n they are set in their opinions and set in a way which prom fees most for them thein and least fur for us they do not want silver for money at allan all and donly only yield so faras far as to give those who do so want it a hearing because they are as one against a hundred and not even weir vast poses pomes binds can carry them through success fully against such odds odd the great bulk of the people I 1 lit it all the civilized and most of the ad d countries of f the world recognize the innate qualities of silver and are able to by intuition alone that there is a vast difre difference rence in its ita favor as compared with metals which rus or corrode perhaps the few others referred to also recognize the disparity in tact but they admit it very reluctantly all and nd when such admission is i made they variably invariably supplement it with the claim that there Is but one metal fitted by reasor of royal properties to ke t e the arbiter of values gold to it lother al metals metal silver included must oe no in subjection their value gauged by the law of supply sad and demand as the same may be determined by gold this gentry also recognize enat with silver bop hopelessly elesely de and all obligations made payable in gold they are pot loot only striking out half of the worlds circulating medium but bur measured toy by what guld gold would w uld then buy they are doubling the value of the latter naturally they prefer auch a condition those who owe them would thus thu be paying two dollars for every one ley they were indebted while factories closing up ip armies of men in idle and interest on loans crawling up like the mercury in a thermometer on a summer mornin morning ir bouli still further en hance their possessions this would be very good for the gold man but how bow about the other ninety nine As previously suggested it at Is in because their interests cannot be utterly ignored all the time that they are becoming unruly in places and for the further reason that the business of silver production in and of itself la is a mighty factor in the worlds economy that these lords of creation have consented to even spare the time to meet in a conference with the representatives of a more popular fl dan caal arrangement than they would prefer to have even herd hard they will concede no point looking to the establishment and maintenance of a dual standard of values it must be gold or nothing under such circumstances and realizing that the united states alone oa ca not dot adopt and force into recognition a system which its customers and correspondents correspond ens abroad will not have perhaps the best think our representatives can do is to aggee wl with th the others upon a compromise it being impossible to obtain full recognition for silver and the others finding themselves unable to make their way through the tide of opposition prevailing to the complete overthrow of the white metal all the conditions for a midway mid nid way agreement would seem beem to be on hano hani the plan which seems to meet with most general favor is for all subsidiary coins and all coins below a certain amount say live five dollars to be of silver exclusively at a fixed ratio in point of weight as compared with gold as to what extent silver isliker could thus be made a legal tender fur for all debts public and private that might have to vary some as in some nations a dollar amounts to much more than it does in some others but for international purposes it would h ve to be agreed to by the conference then by an arrangement providing for the issuance of notes dotes based on coin in possession the objection of bulkiness would be removed and the international legal tender of silver might be largely extended something of this kind it would seem will have to be as in the very nature of things au an agreement consented to by all the parties in interest mus be had we are at liberty to look to the brussels gathering for something in the nature or of satisfactory results this time |