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Show They would easily absorb our entire annual I product. Before the Comstock was. discovered, there was a perpetual struggle on the part of San Francisco bankers and merchants to obtain ' Mexican dollars to send to China. At that time, too, China was under the lethargy of the ages. She has thrown that off now, and her uses for money will increase during the next three decades dec-ades in arithmetical ratio. Why does not congress move now? Why not remonetize the product of the United States, and If thought best, retire greenbacks as fast as the silver certificates are issued? That would fully restore silver, the world around, within a year, for every one of the so-called enlightened nations na-tions see the peril that they and their working-men working-men are being drawn into. Were congress to propose this, there would be no more furious protests from the "enlightened centers." Even the rabid gold press would go slow, for not one of them has a plan for meeting the situation in the orient as It has developed now. |