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Show USING AMERICAN SILVER Placing European governments broken down as result of the world war upon a sounder financial basis is going to make an enormous enor-mous demand for American silver. For instance, the United States mint is coining 18,000,000 silver pieces for the Polish government which has adopted a new monetary unit, face value 1 8 cents. American silver producers are supplying the silver and alloys to the United States mint to manufacture these coins in single. and double units. It is probably impossible to ever put all the European currencies curren-cies upon a gold basis, especially when the people of those countries coun-tries generally prefer the use of silver. Some of those countries at present would be very happy indeed if their respective national treasuries were even upon a silver basis, like Mexico, Central and South America. Investments of eastern capital are being freely made in western mining properties and this will probably continue. Conditions which encourage this greatly benefit not only the West but the whole nation and the world. |