Show BEFORE THE DAWN it is always darkest just before dawn is a arito old saying which many of the most ardent friends of silver arc inclined to make applicable to the present monetary condition of the country it is argued that the present crisis caused by tho action of alio east indian government can have but one result and that the restoration of silver to its old and time honored position an equal partner with gold because indian action will eo far to convince our depre in congress from the far eastern stales eliat silver money is absolutely sol necessary as a factor to national prosperity not seem credible that an american congress can deliberately go to work to destroy silver and prevent its use as money evidence is accumulating that the bankers and business men of the east are becoming frightened over the prospects which their own action has brought about and at last are beginning to study what the effect would be upon their own prosperity if the people of alie who are their debtor were dc of alie means to pay their debts I 1 let the eastern shylocks once become convinced that the destruction of dilver will mean their own financial ruin and we may bo sure that they will no longer stand in the way of those who advocate free coinage and true bimetallism panacea for the evils chih beset us financial independence can only come through the adoption of alie double standard aal this we feel hopeful will be the outcome of the deliberations of congress bimetallism makes france independent of london and it will leavo the same effect upon tills country As showing how infinitely better off france is under the double standard which renders her financially independent of london the denver sun directs attention to the incidents immediately following the baring failure london at once drew upon her american securities and the depression in london was immediately followed by a sympathetic depression in this country a depression not improved by tho which followed in australia while we were in the slough of financial tumult bimetallic france rode the crest serene and prosperous and the deficiency required after the resources in this country and in the colonial anks biad been exhausted was loaned by franco to alie bank of england the condition of france today is an unanswerable argument in favor of the double monetary standard |