Show THE SILVER QUESTION When the political mountebanks of the day shall have stated all their issues which they intend to bring before the people it will be found that the people in themselves have an issue that is paramount para-mount to all the subjects raised by men who seek office for its spoils and that issue is silver equal with gold and the free and unlimited coinage of both The circular in our local columns needs no comment being one of the ablest arguments argu-ments in favor of the use of silver on a par with gold we have yet read The following fol-lowing excerpts from the opposing sides of the silver question utterances are worthy of deep thought Mr Moreton Frewen recently addressing address-ing the Congress of Chambers of Commerce Com-merce of the British Empire said I am myself interested in this question as a farmer both in the United States and in CanadA It is absolutly notorious no-torious that the price which our wheat and our raw cotton is to fetch in the European market is decided by the price of silver Take a chart and watch the fluctuations in the market price of wheat in Mark Lane during the last ten years and what do you find That with every fall of a penny in the price of silver wheat has fallen a shilling shil-ling that is per quarter or 3 cents per bushel and this is a very mild statement and whenever any cause operated to stiffen the price of silver then the wheat market was stronger at a higher price At a recent meeting of the American Bankers Association held in the City of Boston the following was unanimously adopted Resolved That it is the sense of this convention that the coinage of siver dollars under the compulsory law of 1878 is detrimental detri-mental to the best interests of the people and dangerous to the welfare of the Government Govern-ment and that the law should be immediately immedi-ately suspended and remain inoperative until an international agreement with the leading commercial nations shall give substantial sub-stantial assurance as to the future relations of gold and silver as money We therefore there-fore earnestly appeal to all boards of trade chambers commerce and civil and political polit-ical associations of every kind to make persistent per-sistent efforts to secure the repeal of the law or a suspension of the coinage of such silver dollars Here then may be seen in part what we have to fight for and whom we have to fight agiiinst Should it not be sufficient to stimulate the workers of America to action |