Show A NECESSITY Silver is one of the worlds necessities It is the peoples money and the people are in favor of an increased coinage of this money When Congress refused to disturb the coinage of silver it did loyal service to the cause of the people The business of the country is ever on the increase This increase calls for a greater volume of currency and the people demand that this greater volumne shall be of silver This increase of currency is imperative The difference between the business of the country and the circulating medium is certain to bring financial distress if it is not promptly remedied The peoples demand for silver is based upon open and apparent cause The production of gold is falling off The production of silver has scarcely begun Of necessity silver is the money of the future Not only in the United States is the voice of silver compelling attention From all over the world come echoes of the cry of the white metal And it is not in the far distant future that this cry will be hearkened to The grasp of the goldbugs is already weakening The dazzle of the yellow metal has ceased to affect the popular eyesight The value of the gold piece no longer clouds the popular understanding I The people see that the plain white metal is practically of the same value as its more pretentious brother that it affords as solid and enduring a basis for a national currency and that the natural supply source is practically inexhaustible In fact silver is natures money as well as the peoples Our western mountains are one immense natural national treasure vault The keys to this vault are already fashioned and the national wealth can be drawn at will The march of progress the advance of education and the teaching of experience bring with them the inevitable appreciation of silver as the true circulating medium A nlen 1 tiful national supply of the white metal means good wages and comfort for the laborer perfect safety for the capitalist and a national credit that nothing can shake Not only the intelligent people of the United States but the nations of the earth one and all begin to understand the great mission of silver The white I metal is a king in his own right and will I rule the world This kingly power will be as beneficent as it is strong and its reign will be marked by a progress and prosperity until then unknown in the annals of the world |