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Show LEGISLATION FOR SILVER. The silver problem steadily grows ;n importance. Increasing interest is being shown in it by the general public. J. S. Cullinan, president of the Fidelity Fi-delity Trust company of Houston, Texas, recently said, "1 attach great importance to the legislation for restoration res-toration of silver at this session of Congress. The effect of this, in my judgment, would be immediate in relieving re-lieving pressure on the banks, and in turn on debtors by the banks, in increased in-creased employment and buying pow-r, pow-r, and a definite sUrt upward." International trade has faded away to below the pre-war level, and the monetary standards of many important impor-tant countrie-.s are in a state of confusion, con-fusion, largely because of depressed prices for silver. The world's gold 1 supply has proven inadequate to keep the complicated economic machine in motion. Any plan to attain international inter-national stability must include as one of its important planks a program for restoring a fair ratio of value between; gold and silver. Private and public groups are working on such programs now, and the support they are given will largely determine how quickly we shake off the effects 'of defpres- i sion. |