| Show SILVER AND OTHER MATTERS one of the railway presidents who met in new york seme weeks ago at jay goulds reque request zt to fork the big raft railway way trust did not fall in with the scheme gentlemen eaid said be addressing his wold ba acors as neighbors and citizens I 1 r respect 0 you all and would take your word indeed to use his own west tern phrase 1 I would trust yon you with my watch atch bat but crease excuse me gentlemen for being candid with yoo yet as railroad presidents I 1 would not believe you under oath nor would I 1 trust you with my watch here ia is testimony from the inside of bow how utterly untrustworthy indeed deprived depraved is getting to be the moral status of the business relations I 1 in 11 this business republic of ours never has his this conceded custom of 0 misrepresentation concealment ceal ment of truth and wholesale lying come out in such prodigious s strength as in he the discussions of the silver legislation now before congress a the editors edi ed lors fiore bankers merchants speculators ring legislators and tom D dick ck and harry generally generalI to whom limitt d coinage brings any personal gain have made it a special task to invent some peculiar fallacy for the purpose of turning the silver measures from tbell their natural course last week was characterized by a flood of money statistics from new york boston and philadelphia worked upon the syndicate di catell plan and sent to the house coinage committee having the bill in charge in the impressions conveyed the whole mess moss was fiction nothing more but it was business transacted upon strict business lines according to the ideas of the present present day another example Is is at hand the new york evening post from some cause best known to itself has his all along been much exercised over the enlargement of our silver coinage the post like president green in behalf of bis his telegraph line and president adams for his railroad line and jay gould for his subsidy steamship line is in the business of making opinion after its particular model in the committee room in ILI its search tor for suitable evidence it has found that since the passage of th the e silver act of july 14 1890 the gold in the treasury hai has suffered a reduction of nearly that the new york banks realized a gold gain gala in that period of round num bara and a klin gila in silver of 24 therefore says the bost here ia evidence of a net loss to the country of in gold against a nt not gain of n in silver to show how utterly fallacious is the posts one sided reasoning the rin financial ancial and mining of new york saya says that the country has experienced not only no yam gain of sl silver iveria in lieu of loss of gold but a loss of both gold and silver due to a reduction of of the available treasury cash during luring the period in instanced eta need of thia this reduction ia is gold and 22 is silver the remaining reduction is 14 in notes and bank deposits by the treasury thia this loss of surplus silver Is in spite of the increased purchases of silver under the bill which the post desires repealed YESTERDAY THE hoodlums of blackfoot and vicinity expressed their loy ally alty to the defunct dubois by hanging representative brigga briggs in effigy tie tle latter having recently become acquainted qu quainter quain ted with bis his conce conscience lence and joined the clagett ranks now come the better citizens of blackfoot willi with resolutions of respect and confidence declaring briggs tho the man they delight to honor JAY GOULD ia is at last on a track th that il t rives gives prospects of being as broad as e his understanding it was easy for anybody to perceive long ago that the united states was not big enough for him with the railroad presidents practically running the country and every president under his thumb to be played upon at the master manip ys ar ula tors 8 convenience be he was not satisfied but was forever peering beyond the horizon of his achievements with a longing that would not be still he ba his at last broken over the national limits we may expect to learn that south america has become a branch of his possessions now almost any day |
