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Show So Blind Are They AJ educated New Yorker was here on Tuesday Jast. "When asked what eastern people proposed pro-posed in order to restore the exchanges and the trade of the orient, he said he did not know. That the Chinese are making steel rails at one-fifteenth the cost for the same work in Pittsburg, and that the Japanese are perfecting their cotton and woolen mills to compote' on the same ruinous ratio with the mills of the United States, did not seem to interest him at all. When asked what the skilled laborers of this country would do when that competition became sharp, he merely replied that he guessed the American, workingmen would get along, and finally declared, ihat there was no silver question, that no one wanted anything to do with silver. That merely shows where the eastern people have been led, through, their newspapers. They have ceased to think for themselves. They are killed if given a little silver in change, but let the same people go abroad and English or French silver coin Is all they desire, but home, loaded down with a few standard dollars and their backs are broken. Have the gods blinded their eyes? Have they sailed through the straits between Scllla and Charybdis with no wax In their ears? All tb,e silver that our country produces, pro-duces, if recognized as it was prior to 1873, would not buy. the butter and eggs that New York, Philadelphia Phila-delphia and Boston use annually, but to recognize silver as a precious metal, as perfect for money in all its attributes, save density, as gold would seam to those eastern people a calamity, a worse calamity than to glva up the export trade of the t - United States with half the world's peoples, and a( the same time threaten the skilled laborers of the United States with a competition they cannot jl meet. And there is no hope of anything better until 11 a half-dozen of the great leading financiers of Hl the east become alarmed at the outlook and shout 91 their fears to the great host to whom they are lit- FH tlo gods. Then the right will triumph. tH |