| Show SILVERS SILVER 18 OUTLOOK the parti partisan sin press to 1 using up a great deal of editorial space these days day in explaining pla ining and justifying or condemn ink as aa the case may be the attitude altitude of two or three recent political conventions vent ions with reference to the he alver the comments cow mente thus vouch aed hafed are let ler satisfying than deceptive lew less instructive than technical less ieee honest tuan ingenious those papers which favor the free and unlimited coinage of silver are only comforted in their distress at their own party cartye pa failure to climb upon that platform by the fact that the opposing party has ha also fought shy eby of the glittering issue ibue those which tand stand for what they oali oal an 64 honest bollar meaning a gold one only are equally chagrined at though they attempt to gloss glom over what they call the equivocal aqui vocal espres sious of their own party tb same ame kind of expressions by their political opponents are branded as a cowa cowardly raly and disgraceful straddle tr addle out ou tot of all the talk pro and COD the charger gep and multiplied which profit not noi neither do they teach this thi fact booms clear clean neither of the me great parties partied la in going to allow itself to be committed to the proposed expert experiment mert in monetary policy perhaps it is better even eved for the silver men themselves them Belvea that it is IB go 0 o opponents are tempted to relax the violence of their defense deien ae and to audy study the merits of the theodie case with wore more calmness still more important stat a the effect which this phase of the question tion exercises upon foreign countries with whose operation cooperation co cooper atlon even the gold men admit that can be made prudent and beneficial the growth of trio the silver sentiment in germany Is ii sturdy and rapid france to la already profoundly commit ed cd to it while the resent recent chavies in england englana have hae placed men at the fro aroi t bosa bimetallic views are liberal to the fast degree end and at the backs baaki of the party in power a constituency that in strong tr oar ly y inclined to accept accent the silver liver solution ola of the monetary problem on the whole the situation as a at pres tnt nt defined offers offen much that in to the fair minded and the conservative conserva serva tive of all parties it Is burque tion ably more favorable than JS it was wai six iz months or even sixty days ago As indicating the tendency toward a broader and fairer examination of the question by an authority on the sound money side aide we w conclude with an extract from the financial caronite CAro note a journal the american banker observe has never dever been suspected of chasing chafing alter after false boub we believe that an arrangement for uniting the two currencies to is feasible furthermore we are of the opinion with the worlds workers and the worlds commerce situated as aa they are more than half of the entire population having a silver currency that it to is not only a feasible undertaking but a highly desirable if not an essential union it does not dot affect our confidence in the feasibility and success or ol the proposal because theoretically many an able economist thinks differently there are also very many who hold the opinion we do besides we have lived many years and during that long life we never knew an important work tobe undertaken thal thai did not have full half of the ablest of the experts in its line arrayed against it proving dearly clearly on known facts that it was impossible we need go back no further than the atlantic cable enterprise for a suggestive illustration no one has forgotten mr fields struggles and success against the evidence of his insane folly furnished by so many able electricians indeed the history of this count rys progress is in marked all the way through by a series of bucce ses obtained in violation of plain economic truths a series with a succession islon almost as frequent as the suo suc cestive steps in our development have been |
