Show silver and national prosperity from mining and financial record Dc denver nver while business interests everywhere are seeking the paternalistic vid aid of the united states government to tide them over and adjust them beaves la alves to the unsettled conditions due to the european war the old time prejudice pie judice against the special interests is of 0 the silver miner crop out in wall street when it is proposed that the government shall help sustain the pi taice ice ot of the white metal the truth is that government assistance Is not necessary to the silver miner because I 1 the exigencies of 0 a world war ure are already giving to this metal a value as a money medium which the most vigorous manipulation of 0 financiers could scarcely impart to it it Is probable that the governments ot of the world will be forced to silver therefore it will not be necessary rec essary tor for the western miner to balse any undue clamor about the matter that which should interest them most is the revival of the old prejudice which the present commanding in opportunity of silver as a basic money metal excites in the losovs of 0 the advocates of banking currency the difference between real money that is silver or gold and banking paper is that the one is ia a commodity and the other is an obligation to deliver a commodity proposals to remove all commodities from the sphere of the money function apply no less lesh to gold than they do to silver er objections to silver are not objections to bimetallism bi but objections to specie which stands in the way of the development of banking currency that is money which consists solely of an obligation to deliver a commodity banking economists who alethe representatives of that modern industrial imperialism which seeks to shake oft off its entire allegiance legi ance to the state except when the judicial and police powers of the state slate are necessary to it ask nothing better than an opportunity to unseat the money issuing function of the government from their point of view even the issuance of government money is paternalistic whenever you encounter an objection to paternalism be sure that you are talking with an industrial imperialist in simple phrase an agent of big I 1 business just now the hostility to silver as money is more bitter than ever InI in the deliberations of eastern lawman ers western men should have no tear fear to state their convictions for the reason that they are certain to be justified by the results of the war it II matters not which european nation prevails upon the field of battle silver as money is sure to win it the conflict continues no longer than a year the very fragility of the credit relations of the great banking nations tile the collapse of markets and the easy suspension of commerce in a time of stress give abundant proof that modern civilization so called la Is not secure in any of those human relations upon which the refinements ot of modern finance depend for their stability gold and silver may indeed be barbaric money the tha relics of outgrown barter the trinkets of p childish race war is not only barbaric it is barbarous real money is necessary tor for real people gold and silver must prevail as money until money is altogether anoli abolished shed in isome some social paradise which is now only dreamt of 0 in the slumbers of ian an emma goldman some one sent to united states senator charles S thomas of 0 colorado the august 19 issue of the lally mining and financial record containing our editorial commeau coin ment upon dijon war and silver money referring R to those utterances we have the following emphatic letter from senator thomas who says 1 I hope that the article referred to will be followed by others of sim ilar strength and vigor the anti pathy to silver as money was never orore marked in legislative coull councils C 11 8 than at present its enemies being rs uncompromising as ever and its ito friends tor for the most part too timid tor for self assertion but I 1 predicted the other day and am satisfied that the events of the next decade will 7 verity verify the assertion that the money function will be fully restored to silver upon some ratio through the unavoidable necessities of the great v ar now devastating europe mil and soon to spread through asia the ns of nature apply to the transactions ot of men quite as inexorably as they do to the elements of nature t 1 and adverse legislation indeed nay may prove disastrous but can never destroy or permanently suspend their operation so long as we depend upon a metallic basis as a medium of 0 ee exchange bange so long must silver perform form its share of the burden nations like individuals receive their roost most valuable education from el Ierien ce and the historian of 0 the future will demonstrate that one of 0 the causes of this war was the of silver by the german empire in 1873 that france might be bankrupted through the payment lof ot her war indemnity |