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Show THE SILVER QUESTION. I)i-metallism, now being widely advocated ad-vocated after a long period in which it dropped from sight, is certainly not a principle to be adopted blindly. But it does seem worthy of intelligent SHialysis. Writing in The Mining Journal, J. D. Fisher, an engineer of Colorado, 1 advocates a silver and gold ratio of 20 to 1, and says that "no other single frrective step could be taken which could be as universally beneficial." If it were established, he believes, ''ijvternasion obligations could be paid, credits would be restored, and unem-i ytoymeat problems would solve them- jj selves." ' H is generally agreed that the de-,os.vtt de-,os.vtt price of silver has been a vital f factor in prolonging and intensifying tn, an international scale, the gener-' J industrial depression. The purchas-j ing power of whole peoples has been ttuced to half or less of its former; Irret trade between nations is Ian-" (Wishing; ami dying. If the rehabilitation rehabilita-tion of silver will help bring order ou.t of chaos, the .subject should haw, the most thorough consideration toi & tannine its practicability. Metal mining means so much fc?! many of our states that legitimate auct practical encouragement of it af-i feet the stability of oor nation. |