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Show A recent London quotation of 23 5-6 pence ' iff, Wto per ounce for silver is the lowest ever reached in m J, fjoM all recorded time. How about 16 to 1? San 'M ff41H Francisco Argonaut. j 4y IjJaM Considering that the combined money-loaning i fp 1MB interests of the world have induced the nations of iPlFslBB civilization to do their utmost to kill all demand ! t 1 jsjlH for silver, is it not doing pretty well to still ' iii'sliraH maintain a price of 23 5-6 pence per ounce? Wim tSBMB Then, incidentally, when Jim Hill and Mr. j W WsSm Harrlman get their great 15,000-ton Pacific ' '-iiB9 steamers running to the Orient, in order to carry VllI iflW to market the west-coast products, what are the wfjWIW myriads there to purchase those products with? ! Haf&Bflral They cannot reckon their daily transactions in j (ffi Bnfl gold; they have not $2 per capita to trade on, j3 IgHB what money are they going to deal in? Is it not JilillSO just possible that the destruction of silver as iIBbhBH money was, beside being a crime unparalleled, at , , (BBmBB the same time the stupidest legislation ever re- iiBflHH sorted to? uSIHIH |
