Show IS IT NOT TIME editor C C goodwin goodwill the always 4 and consistent advocate tor for tho the white metal had the following to y 1 in ri his last issue ot of good wills weekly reader header did you note that dispatch three days ago of the falling ailing oft off of 0 our export rade to china during the past four or five years about 75 per cent it if we remember correctly in these years too when china has been extending her railroads and factories and smelting smelling sm elting furnaces and rolang mills years too in which she has incessantly been seeking closer relations with the united states la Is there no senator or ri representative in all our western staves stages who nho has the courage to lay hie real facts before the country and to demand that at least an effort shall be made to restore matters to where they stood before the insane and ald criminal crim lna legislation was mas forced n upon poll the tu coull country ery which ivcich to lii be so ibi mense q a ga cr ac a auti iu and abroad has result efi in elos cl osine irig bill all the ports of the 0 rient orient our merchandise and made contusion in our trade with a all 11 spanish america if there are still people who do not the cause of this trouble we will once more briefly explain it when the united states and germany in the interest of their interest gatherers determined to take tahe from silver its rightful prerogative rega tive as primary money the natural result followed silver was made a mere commodity like iron alithe all the burden fell upon gold and the two metals drew apart in price it il was as it would be were the worlds government to declare that henceforth no more flour should be made of wheat but that henceforth all broad bread must bo be made of corn it if they had this power and could enforce orce it the natural result would be would it not that wheat w 1 shrink in value and corn would ad vance well through that legislation legislA liou silver in gold countries has shrunk measured by gol gola 1 GO 60 per cent dut but silver has been the immemorial imme norial money of china japan india and the straits settlements where halt half the worlds people are huddled and none of 0 those countries has demolet ud id silver while japan has ae declared for a gold standard stan daid that has been merely menly men ly in the interests of her foreign settlements she pays her wage earners in silver at the old rales rates so does china and india ot or course aarone cin can see that this means that these countries can now produce goods which measured in 1 gold are 60 0 per cent cheaper than 1 I 1 she could produce the same goods I 1 twenty five years ago but our merchandise measured in ia chinese money costs 60 per cent more than it did five years ago the natural recill is that china cal caa flood our country with rice and coal aud and iron ore and pig iron and silk and wool end and all other commodities which S she he has to sell GO CO per cent cheaper than formerly she can i now mine iron ore smelt it convert it into inlo stel steel roll it into bais ship it from a point inland GOO miles send it t down the great liver load it up on oil ift ship end and send it to us and sell it at a price which defies competition we fought against china competition forty years ago now solely through our own legislation china cani can heep he her people at home and from that home can send us iron and coal a thousand other articles and defy our competitions Is it not time for our labor unions to arouse themselves Js Is it not time for the american people and congress to arouse themselves and demand that tills this froug dahll be undone will no western congressman lay these facts before the nation and insist that an ail international conference be c diled cili eJ to restore silver on such terms h ms as are just to its old place is as noney |