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Show THE SILVER COXGRESS. There is certainly no cause for any one lo quarrel with Mr. Cleveland for not appointing representatives to a Bilver con ere sb which has not as yet been called and which we are not quite Bure the United States should attend or take auy part in whatever. A silver congress which would not re-tnonetize re-tnonetize silver would be about the worst thins we could appear at. However, How-ever, we are very sure that this is not the reason restraining the president. It is now perfectly clear that any congress con-gress which does net include England could not possibly effect renionetiza-tibn renionetiza-tibn and. any congress in which she does take part will and can only go against silver. The fact is the war is on between this country and England on the money question and the only thing we can do, is to accept the gnage of battle and fight it out witn the mother country, and win or lose it all. If the Unite i States were a weakling in either commerce or finance we might seek a congress for the settlement settle-ment ot finances, but ehe is a weakling in nothing and just as able to remone-tize remone-tize Bilver in 1805 as England was to demonetize it in 18l6,and there is more in it for her than there was for England Eng-land in that enterprise. If Mr. Cltve-land Cltve-land ever exhibited the shadow of friendship for silver he has exhibited it alone in avoiding any undue anxiety about another European conference. ; Unless Europe takes some step to indicate in-dicate that she, or at least some one ol the leading powers, had changed theii minds on the subject of bimetallism, it would be worse than nonsense for the United States to confer with her on the subject. If an early return to bimetallism is desirable,all we haye to do is to pass a free coinage act and the president t6 sign it and the thing is done. Not for the United States alone. DUi ior ine wnoie wonu. cutii au oti on our part would do away with any -3sTJiI??dow of excuse for the congress, and "" "Vyet it womi.rgQ.nit in the full and com-' ." plete acceptance of ihrf aou ole ard by every trading nation on earth, v There can be no doubt of it and our method is the shortest and best. Besides it woald give us such a commercial com-mercial impetus that in fifty years no nation, either European or Asiatic, could overtake us. , The financial scepter scep-ter would change from England's hand to oura very promptly and .instead f borrowing monjy from her or her satellites, sat-ellites, she would be on her knees before be-fore our Wall Btreet bankers for the verv favors which we have for so long Bought in Lombard street. This may not suit the views of some of our finan-ciers.but finan-ciers.but we are eure that the masses of the people of the country would very greatly relish seeing the financial boot on the other foot for a eeason or so, and this action would certainly put it, and that very effectively, too. What is the use of begging another to do for you what you can do for your-seif? your-seif? Why should the United States wait years and years for Europe to re-monetize re-monetize when she can do it effectively for herself and without any wasteful or extravagant loss of time? Six months after remonetization, even by this nation alone and we, would be in the yery midst of a whirl of business activity whish would astonish the world, and within one year there would be no European nation which had not followed us into bimetallism. |