Show SILVER IN the enquirer certainly will not contend that it would require more bushels of or hours of labor to buy a rold dollar after the free coinage of silver had been made law thau it doa today and therefore no more wheat or hours of labor to buy two silver dollars anan it does to obtain one silver dollar today hence if the country went to a silver basis gold would not be more burdensome thau they now are the abobo are the words of to which the provo enquirer propounds a question as follows we can alone judge from the resells of free coinage in such countries as mexico there the price of labor and most produce in a currency which requires two dollars to equal one dollar ot our money are much lower than prices in this country kow does THE account for that if we were to briefly answer the question allowing that editor to do some of he thinking we would say that mexico of today is a paradise compared with the mexico of fifteen years ago something that cannot be said ot the united states with its gold standard but inasmuch as none are eo blind es he who will not see an extended reply may act as a kindly licht to lead the faltering out of the perplexities of finances it is manifestly unfair to attempt a comparison comp ariEon of countries entirely die similar are the united states and mexico unlike in climatic conditions sources and customs of the people we draw conclusions by comparing chile a gold country with mexico but in that case it would be unfair to the gold cadee or there are turkey and greece and egypt all cold countries that would suffer in comparison with mexico for a silver advocate to point to egypt and charge that the gold standard is alone responsible for the squalid condition of the people ot the nile would be demagoguery for the climate of the nile the customs of its tribes extending through centuries have more to do with their present lethargy and habitude than does the standard money of the world there ate few if any who fail to acknowledge that mexico has gone tor ward by strides and bounds in the past fifteen years much of this quickened ife la traceable to the change from the terrorism of brigandage to the peace and stability of a well established form of government but during all abia transition silver has nerved the medium of exchange and measure ot value and to euch good purpose that the available wealth of mexico aas quadrupled in a comparatively ariet period and the energies of the people of tha republic have been em aloyed and to the fullest extent possible aos sible in the sunny dreamlike dream like life of be inhabitants of that warm climate A wonderful incentive has been ever pros ent to urge the mexicans to a greater activity there has been an ample medium ot exchange offering ofle ring the greatest facility for the disposal of all kinds 0 produce while all europe and the united states by virtue of the discount on silver have granted to the mexican a premium on whatever be might export to them from peonage the mexican laborer has advanced to a freedom of action that affords better wages and commands creater contentment than is found amone the colored people of the south though it is 30 icare since they were riven their manumission peonage has been overcome in fifteen years by cos dilver standard the same results in this country a fratricidal war and an bondage of gold thare are in the united states more paupers the word is there are men women and children in mexico with inventive genius unrivaled mechanical edill and appliances a une an energy and natural resources beyond compare why have we this poverty a contemplation of which must bring sadness and soft ness of heart to even the avaricious and cold blooded why in this land ot the atiee and home of the brave are hands tied that have reached out for work and heads bowed down in borrow and despair that in the sunlight ol 01 better days were held erect in nil the pride ot manhood and womanhood that requited labor can krant why you can not give plausible sensible answer that does not recognize in our present financial affairs the worship of the golden calf a carsa tenfold greater than fell upon the children of israel mexico 1 why mexico with its hospitable people the poorest of whom know not want ie land of egweet dreams an the twilight hours are filled with melody and each day brings a night that ie without the spectres spec tres of tomorrow the that ehinea over free america dips into the pacific each day leavtey behind a wild scramble for cold that IB attended by such scenes 0 misery despair and madness that it would ae a nation we ure nearly mon eylese and |