Show GOLD COLD AT A PREMIUM and let lot wall street lla ila Sur survive vivi 1 th tl briock gold Is at a premium on thursday last it was per cent how ilow nill ill street survive I 1 such euch a shock 1 one of 0 those ni that will ill probably pro bibly never be for two beirs past the appalling pilling ap picture ol 01 gold at a premium has been kept iu u the very ver focus of the public gaze truo th cold people nev never er specific I 1 particularly I 1 art just how ho WP we were to be ruined by it they left that to the gold has hag been at a premium over co commodities modi ties and other forms of property for more than twenty airs vat 1 however hoA eer has given the gold worship per no poncere the tact fact that the pro ducer had to labor twice as lone long or of tv twice fee as hard to get a collir was as a good thing for the man who already had the dollars but at the idea of 0 tonic importer or wall street speculator having to pay one or two per cent premium in order to get gold tor for export he actually stood aghast but tho the dread moment came gold went to a premium of a cent and a it quarter aud and except for the li iL mention of the fact we e should never have kuball the difference it Is now in order for the gold whose whole hole soul has been wrapped up in fit the idea of parity one dollar as good as another etc etc to rise and explain it will aill probably be said that the premium was small and that it wae was only temporary well how great must the premium be and how hot long must it ill baat 1 1 to burl hurl us down the awful abyss of financial ruin if 14 pr p r cent Is not enough will 2 per cent do the work nork or 3 or 4 or how many per cent must it be the profits of the syndicate on the hrat first secief bond deal represent a premium of 16 per cent on an the gold furnished to the goern government ment even een that bad ae it was nas in lit every respect did not ruin the country it only disgraced it we expect to see a premium on gold a good miny times time within the next year and we expect to see the goldlee shift his hi position concerning it as of af en as he has with alth ic ie ference to the anger boint of the treasury reserve the reader will ill remember that tor for a long time the line was ivas sharply drawn at on one hundred millions then the line mas wa IoN lowered vered to ninety millions then to sev enty flA and now it seems to be altogether ir it definite so go will it be A ith the tho premium on gol goll I 1 |