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Show Save Silver The Senate resolution which recommended rec-ommended that the President take steps to open negotiations with otn or countries in an effort to prevent ihe practice of debasing silver coinage, and to prevent violent lluctuation- in I ho price of silver, may have pninled the way toward a partial solution of our mining problem. County after country, says the Great Falls, Montana, Tribune, has (one to. the gold standard but there is grave doubt that the business busi-ness of the world can be carried on with gold alone. In the meantime mean-time silver coinage, so far as its purchasing power in the world markets is concerned, has been steadily downward. A short time ago the price of silver dropped to the lowest point in our history. Silver affects the financial problem prob-lem of the entire world, international interna-tional trade and domestic industrial indus-trial conditions. The problem must bo solved and perhaps a conference confer-ence of nations will be the way out of. the difficulty. |