Show th great evil alt must admit that the great evil that afflicts the business interests of the country is the persistent fall of prices and that until this difficulty is removed the inducement for the em of capital in productive in is greatly diminished this insurmountable barrier to our na dional prosperity almost wholly it not entirely due to the operation of the stogie gold standard neither the beare tary in his speech nor the president in his recent message to congress proposes any remedy nor do they make the slightest allusion to it the only bug gestson they offer in support of their destructive policy Is that the great in vectors of the world will give more for our bonds and other securities it they are made payable in gold and that ne shall be deprived of this benefit if they are payable in gold or silver these bonds and other securities must in the end be paid both principal and interest with the produce of labor there is no other fund available for that purpose any increase of their issue simply has the effect of increase ing the burden upon labor which de altes no more benefit from the price for which they are sold than did the poor negro in slavery times from the money be was sold for in the market all the resulting benefits go to the dealers in these securities it is said that the syndicate realized some from the purchase of our last issue of government bonds and labor the vie tim of this issue is subject to an an nual tribute of 82 in the form of interest until their maturity and its only la x j ii fot that they met with a ready sale in the mar ket national bimetallist |