Show A GREAT OPPORTUNITY T Something ought to come ome out of the petition petition peti peti- tion of China and Mexico to the United States to join with them to try to give a fixed value to silver Right there this country has an opportunity to make an arrangement which will enable American ships hips to dominate domin te the th trade of the Pacific which will give her manufacturers man man- and merchants first place in all the Orient and Spanish America Our government govern govern- merit ment has but to make an agreement f that pure silver bars shall hold a certain ratio to gold in trade that th the future coinage of silver shall be on that same Bame ratio and then on such terms as shall be just loan or sell to China all the tho silver she wants taking the tho pay for the same in the rice sugar wool tea too and other products of China China would quickly absorb all the product of both the American and Mexican Me i an tines mines and the trade with the Orient would be transformed transformed trans trans- formed in tive vears for at present China is isso isso isso so destitute 0 of money that all her working and creative forces are paralyzed Such an arrangement would within a year cause every country of Europe either to clamor cla mor for a new international confer conference nce or to quietly accept the same ratio and adjust their business to it It required thirty years to kill silver as mon money y that arrangement would practically restore it in ina a day and the result would cause the commercial world to see soo in instantly instantly instantly in- in how shameful was the war upon the white metal and how fearful were the losses sustained through that warfare Goodwins Goodwin's Goodwin's Goodwins Weekly |