| Show STILL ROOM FOR HOPE nearly every eye in the region of country west of the nebraska prairies and east of the sierra ne dadasis is turned toward brussels on the result of the deliberations of that gathering depends it may be the weal or woe of all the district named directly and indirectly the welfare of the whole country if not the civilized world in possession of a region whose natural wealth to is held in p tion and confine not altogether by the zealous guardianship of nature but chiefly by the selfishness waywardness and it may be ignorance of those who control we are constructively as aa poor or nearly so as though nature had not stocked the with her treasures the owner of a silver mine no matter how bow extensive and productive it may be does not know whether to prosecute the work of development means to make him independent for life or a pauper there la Is in most cases this risk t be run but vicious legislation has made of what would otherwise be fruitful so many doubtful quantities that the owner of a poor mine rind and he that owns a good one are well nigh on an equality prospectively considered the question seems to be very simple it if silver has the necessary attributes for money money what right have those who exercise a fictitious yet arbitrary and all but supreme power through the ownership and con arol of the other money metal to deny silver its natural function if ifft it has not those qualities why tamper with it longer why disturb the nations and bauge their solid men unrest and an boyance by giving it any recognition at aw all why have statesmen convened in a deliberative capacity to assign to it a IseDa rate and distinct station stati onVY why not treat it as troi iro or copper or lead are treated and let its price be regulated by the amount which the market demands for mechanical and scientific pur purposes it if its qualities partake sufficiently of royalty to place it somewhat above those metals as an article of ornamental utility and not enough to entitle it to rank as a stand ard for fleeting effecting exchanges let that be said and nd the end has come for a me lium ground means the lower lover and anything Is better than suspense no silver must be either money or merchandise and it to is to be sincerely hoped that the conference will declare in favor of ono one or the other so we may know what to depend upon u pon if the white metal meta I 1 is to be declared money let jet the ratio be established at which it is to be coined and circulated freely as such otherwise let the world of finance through its july duly constituted agents strike out the money function altogether and then if we on this side the atlantic antio want to adopt heroic measures we will have the basis and the justification at once yesterdays new york herald has a cablegram from brussels which appeared this morning as a special in the tribune of this city it contains a statement by senator jotin P jones jonea one of the delegates from the united states in it he says I 1 have not given up hope that some plan may be evolved from the discussion in progress now and that before the end of the present week if not the conference may adjourn for good or it may adjourn lor for the the holidays if the mar latter atter happens the governments now opposed to us may see the danger in which they stand and come to an agreement they will discover that they cannot maintain the present system ayatey but maywalt may want time to find away a way out of the difficulty I 1 will speak on tuesday my speech will be academic for I 1 have been asked to discuss the question thoroughly it is also announced that senator jones will speak at great le length oath and that his address is almost certain to attract wide attention for he is on his bis mettle pa there is apparently something to hope for sure enough se senator ator jones Jonee is a capable and earnest man and if he cant induce the gold ites to acknowledge the error of their ways he be can at least leave them with no excuse for not adopting definite measures |
