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Show A SILVER RENAISSANCE. Harper's Weekly has an article on the difficulty of adopting the gold standard in Mexico. Very likely ninety-five out of every hundred in Mexico do no't do business which can be measured by gold. That is true, moveover, of seventy, probably eighty, out of every 100 men of the human race, that shows the demonetization of silver in the United Slates especially, was born of the avarice of the scientific banker, not of statesmanship. Statesmanship does not run counter to an obvious mandate of Divine Providence. When the world was hungry almost to starvation starva-tion for more money, when it was starving, and all the measures through which the food could be doled out were so few that the grain was moulding in the bin while the world outside was starvinff, the bankers of London, Berlin and New York, on consultation, decided that the beggars would pay more for food if the measures were reduced one-half. one-half. There was no higher or more generous thought than that behind the demonetization of silver. But it carried, and when, as measured by gold, the value of silver through their taking away the demand for It, began to fall, then they began to talk of "sound money" and to deplore the wickedness wicked-ness of those who would palm off a 90, then an 80, then a 60-cent dollar on the people. The ' ( ; 11 masses were so obtuse and suspicious that they ' M would not scethat their products were depreciat- I M ing as much as was tho silver, or rather that gold H was taking on a more and more inflated value , t 'M every day when measured by their products or la- M bor, so they drew the robes of self-righteousness j around themselves and deplored the want of in- 'M tegrity in the silver West. t M By a series of lucky accidents, within the .M space of Ave years, the real money supply of the jj M United States was doubled, the chief argument of I J silver men that more money was needed was talc- j M en away and tho silver question ceased to be a liv- t M ing question in our country. It is doubtful if it ' . will ever be revived, because the tendency of this I 'fl country is now and for a long time will be to drain ',M the outside world of money. Moreover, the yield ' M of gold In two years more will be greater than was j j the yield of both the precious metals ten years ago, ' "M and already some Eastern financiers are quietly j , j agitating tho idea of putting a limitation on the i ' i M coinage of gold lest there shall be so much money , , M that their capital will cease to earn a fair return ,1 M in interest t j Some thinkers imagine that they see the hand fl of God in this, that finally the metallic money M standard will have to be abandoned and a paper ; M token be substituted. M But aside from the too swift increase in gold, t M everything is not quite happy. Our manufactur- . M ers, merchants and transportation companies want ' M the Oriental and Spanish-American trade. With I M the latter countries there is perpetual confusion ' n JM touching the finances; with the former the people ft cM are so poor that they can produce but little and I v( . t M can buy but little. China alone needs $200,000,000 jy 'H for a starter, but she can use nothing but silver 1 jM and copper money, and she cannot borrow the sil- jfl ver because thero can be no agreement as to how u , M the debt is to be eventually liquidated. So her j J millions live only a little removed from starvation, ) ' M and Jim Hill does not get the freight that he longs fl for in Chinese ports and cannot carry goods to V M them because they have no money to buy with. 1 M The bankers forgot the world's needs when they ! M demonetized silver; they mistoook their own avar- i M ice for real statesmanship. I j ' M |