Show HEMS HE SPANS AS ONE IN AUTHORITY does silvers friend rep bland WILL REPEAL THE SHERMAM LA LAV W with a free coinage bill suver question the only one confronting the coming congress ST louis july 21 ainne we will repeal the sherman She law law with a free coinage bill thil this Is the way representative bland stated the pro gramme of the silver advocates today bland spoke as one in authority as a leader who knows his ills bust near and understands in advance the lines of battle when asked what Is the cause athe of the present resent financial st stringency Kency he said whatever panic wo we have is due in in a great measure if not antl entirely re ly to the threat of wall street fin ancle r that they would bring on a panic or a monetary stringency in order to accomplish t the hy e of silvar the pr proposition option now made to avoid a panic a nio andy and restore estore prosperity is the tile repeal O 0 oatlie f the sherman act the unconditional regal repeal of that act would be regarded by the w world id as a total of silver which would have tile effect to at once widen the tile difference between the tile bullion value of gold and silver the further depreciation dehen dohen p eci of silver would t then hen be seized ablon upon pon by Y the tile advocates of the sold gold standard as an all I 1 insurmountable surmountable n objection to its it restoration it ie la well known ad added led liland bland the lie present administration ie is opposed to any silver legislation we have no way ay W whatever a t ever in securing the legislation needed except bv by a bill r repealing ecea 1 inythe the act an adv other would ou 1 d be vetoed hence those who advocate too the unconditional repeal of tho the bherman sherman act cannot expect to be recorded as friends of silver bliver our policy will be to a substitute u litti tute we are opposed to the sherman act because it is is a bad silver law and we w want ant to substitute a good one for it that i ie is the tile issue and the tile only alss issue u e and the session loll 1011 will have to confront it t |