Show THE SILVER MOVEMENT the overtures making by mexico toward operation cooperation co with the united states in the maintenance of a ratio between bold and silver as money is a movement in the right direction and if the combination could be between the and all other countries of north and south america it would not only solve the problem but it would solve it in away that would be immensely advantageous to american commerce it would be entirely for the united states to union with other american states under such provisions as would establish entire freedom of trade within the province of the union and such rates could be imposed on the imports of each state might be agreed upon something of this kind was in contemplation ia connection with the pun american congress and no arrangement could be more congenial to american sentiment benti ment or conducive to american interests and why can not american statesmen take up the thought and carry it out to its legitimate results there are a few men in congress who would hall such a policy with delight but too many have their hands tied by commercial complications in their districts moat cities havo large investment foreign capital and it Is capital that controls politics most largely count the newspapers of the country that are advocating a gold standard and they number legions we have the new york tribune a leading republican paper so bitterly hostile to silver and so blindly devoted to bold eliat its services could not be more flagrantly adverse to american interests and more blandly subservient to foreign interests if it were an avowed annex to the london times the idea of the republican party nominating euca a chronic upstart and anelo maniac as whitelaw allied for the vice presidency attests its thorough fitness for a drubbing but the nomination was on par with the dominant tendencies of the party at he time the whole drift was in the direction of a betrayal of republican principles and a blind treachery to american interests there is no such turpitude of treachery trea chely displayed by democracy when it betrays american interests on the money question as the cleveland administration are do 1 ing today for their principles do not pledge them to fidelity to home resources I 1 au aia y and home development as opposed to foreign intrusion but republican principles do most solemnly commit the republican party to such a borne policy hence we hold doubly culpable for party truculence when we examine the financial framework of all the cities of the union especially ally the northern cities we find them mere stipen diaries of europe their holdings briar them into bondage their principal and interest are contracted to be paid in gold the railroads are in a dimitar predicament as also much of the municipal indebtedness of the united states all tl is tends to handicap our political freedom added to this is the fact that many of our news pap era are subsidized and many of the others are handicapped by miserable theories about intrinsic value of roney and the inexpediency of our country acting for herself and determining her own institutions and her own welfare when all these things are taken into consideration it Is gratifying to know that sound money and bonest money has as large a following ae it reveals in congress there has been a great reform on money que stiena in the last year or two and if this change of sentiment goes forward the united states will soon the double standard notwithstanding the dissent with which the cast and portions of the west are permeated even now there is a cerious break in the dead inertia in new england and we aftel ami winced that whenever americans have bourage of their convictions all obstacles will fall away and the movement will as surely as did the straggle for independence |