Show the new york sun has commenced an anti silver crusade in earnest declaring for the single gold standard and referring to tha silver men as hudgeons gudgeons gud geons cranks etc the leading editorial for a week past has daily been on the dilver illusionists last fridays issue flaa filled with the rot TUB STANDARD quotes three paragraphs from different articles as follows the gold men who believe in maintain ine the cold standard of our currency and in saying so have offered and will offer no legislation whatever to insure or create a parity existing under which nearly six hundred millions of silver are maintained on a parity with gold none the less they offer a change tor what we have of priceless value they offer the prosperity which springs from a sure and staple monetary standard the ible foundation of industrial confidence and enterprise they constitute the overwhelming wh elming majority of the people of the united and if either the democratic or the lle publican party fails to pronounce their sentiments in its platform this summer it will be despised for a coward and beaten for its folly experience proves too that statesmen rather than tradesmen am possessed of the discernment and foresight requisite for the discharge of that function so vital in its to a country considerations which rightly influence the judgment of a counting room may be altogether undeserving of attention in a legislative chamber or the council room of a government all are not determinable by the yardstick the avoirdupois scales the bushel measure or the quotations of the stock exchange according to the reports of the director of the mint the value of the gold consumed in the industrial arts by this country alone amounts in some years to nearly or 6 per cent of its total product in europe the annual consumption of the metal is much larger ond in the whole world it probably amounts to quarters of the total amount produced in other words gold is used as money because it is valuable aid is not valuable because it Is used as money the above will be valuable for reference first as a declaration for gold second as proving that the gold production is nearly all absorbed in industrial arts and does not materially increase the money supply estimating abrasion and loss third as rebutting the as emption that the new york bankers or luem bera of the chamber of commerce are possessed of the discernment and perspicuity requisite for the discharge of the functions of statesmen and that when they attempt to dictate to the members of congress they are undeserving of attention fourth as illustrating the contradictory and inconsistent entanglements entangle ments in which gold advocates involve themselves when they try to mane clear their doctrines |