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Show J ABOUT SILVER. We read in the Evening News of yes terday with the keenest interest the lengthy interview with Mr. J. J.Hill the president of the Northern Pacific railway rail-way on the subject of bimetallism. Mr. Iliil recently returned from an extended vieit to Europe and the eastern states and in reply tc? direct inquiries talks interestingly and understanding upon the prospect of international bimetallism bi-metallism in the near future. The conclusion reached by Mr. 13 ill is that if Germany, France and the United States remonetize, England wiU be forced at once to come into the policy or see the major part of her trade go to the double Etandard nations. Mr. Hill would have made his position stronger as well as more interesting had he said that the near approach of peace between be-tween China and Japan presented an argument of haste which could not fail to quicken all commercial nations, but more eepecially one having as large a stake in eastern trade already as has England. Nor is the concurrence of Germany and France necessary, albeit very desireable. It would be quite sufficient suf-ficient for England were the United States alone to remonetize. So great is our advantage, dealing with the east from San Francisco, that were we to remonetize on the 10th of April, before be-fore the 20th England would meet us with a general declaration of tima and place for British resumption. There would be no waiting in such case for the concurrence of Germany and France. it would be quite sufficient for her that this nation had determined to move in the direction of the untold millions of profit lying in plain open sight upon the approach of eastern pacification for the nation first on the ground with the prime necessities of China and Japan which she is willing to Bell at fair prices, for silver the only money either nation named has to pay with. If Mr. Hill had said that all that was-needed was American ac tion and stopped, he would have met the situation exactly. The beet financiers finan-ciers of both America and Europe i nave long seen tliat if the United Sl.ites-30t-i.iii the matter of remune- tization, instead of being crushed by Mr. Clevelana's great bugbear, European Euro-pean combination against us, the crushing would have been on the other foot, and the United States would simply sim-ply have appropriated to herself the trade which international action would have distributed to European nations and herself. She had the chance, has It yet in fact.to gobble it all up without dividing any of it with Europe, or any power upon earth save with Mexico, Central America, Brazil and the Argentine Republic, and with these latter only as a matter of common courtesy and neighborly good feeling. Had there been at the head of this nation at any time since '78, a statesman of either the Jeffersonian or Jacksonian order, this step wouid have been taken long eince, and the pall of hard times would have been lifted and the distresses which are still hanging over Europe and America would have been but an ugly memory only. Now indeed we can go into the International In-ternational conference, or let It alone severely if we consider that better. If we go, it should be only on the understanding under-standing that if any other result than at a ratio of 1G to 1 were adopted we are not bound. Then of course our thunder c'ap of remonetization must come so quick after af-ter the flash that Europe may not recover re-cover from her astonishment and admiration ad-miration in time to reach out by similar measures to share with us in an advantage which will make eery man on this continent easy, and most of them rich. That is juBt what is involved in-volved in independent action by the United States in the great act of justice, jus-tice, the full and entire remonetization of silver. |