| Show AS AN 10 SILVER sil fiher or vaa v a quoted at 67 today the highest it bs reached for some weeks since it began the present upward tendency a short time ago it once touches touched 70 but immediately re ceded and has bee since been from one aad a halt hair to two and a half bait cents lower this abie being acin however on ao an average much higher than for any previous oue length of time since the repeal of the pui chasing clause of the sherman law jaw but whether high or low or at some middle stage meaning neither neltie being the case at present the sit itt and the lesson imparted the thereby main practically unchanged uno hanged it has become a truism that no noall can maintain a royal station in field of commerce without be bolstered up at all points pointe by the 1 and with so BO much power it can go ther und create royalty out of meni A piece of paper otherwise out nt worthless worthies becomes all ai at onoe once 1 1 precious than gold or silver chrol robit the manumitting manu wand of a legal flat and thus causes many good and 0 cwb well informed people to claim that SC H ai money should be ot of paper leaving abib 1 metals to take their alleged p blaces in the field of merc liandi however this may be as to both da superior metal too fact that va vary J ing quotations are issued every av din goes to show that it has been very nearly accomplished in the case ot of one of them it is IB continually presented by those who are either not friendly to silver or j ao not give the subject close attention that that metal to is not de deba basou aeu abs abal 4 is a lull full legal leal tender for all obligation public or private and thus being to gold is not a proper fabj ot ol fera I 1 much controversy it should be ba 1 i that a piece of paper alit 0 worth one cent wuen issuer by alick amt government with the necessary awo v and devices upon it becomes dimmed abely worth pa 0 1000 ot or other expressed sum abd is thus aw only equal to gold but vow eu superior perlor to it erase the word and devi device cep whereby the bac backing kluit at 0 the government is withdrawn and the a paper la is instantly dethroned dethroner and rs rn dereu dered a worthless thing again so stift with stiven it does not maintain itaw by reason ut of its inherent qua lUiea but bat eiki chiefly efly because the govern government mout inoch it as money and becomes responsible lW it the metal itself tines boes not chaug chandl an iota being as valuable lAw Y under as an otherwise I 1 ifa app apparent rent rise and fall as exemplified by the bulletins only ghow abow that there therea 16 more of a demand lor it at some times alm than at others an advanced price 10 di cating either that the demand to U greater or the supply is unequal to the Ue demana mant a falling oft off to in the figure ot of course luu loates the opposite condit condition lon it is as a metal in tile the same game position tiou that wheat pork bitton and other commodities are in it has no i fixed and definite commercial value at aiau ka and Is the creature oie ture or of concomitant circumstances cum stances Who whether theror or not it shall ever be restored to its former estate is 18 ik a vexed und very mud much disputed question which it is reasonably certain will not be answered this year or next |
