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Show - . Gold and Silver. The Boston Herald remarks regarding ( the silver question that "with the creat and idle surplus of silver money now in the Treasury, it would surelv be better to suspend the coinage for a time and try to arrive at an understanding with other nations that will enable the metals to circulate side by side." Does not the same argnm ent apply to gold? Is there not a-"great and idle surplus'of gold money in the Treasury? Should the coinage of gold be suspended for that reason? It is very well understood we suppose, that what the gold money people want i3 the demonetization of silver, and the proposition pro-position to suspend the coinage until an understanding .with other, nations" is arrived at is a mere pretext. That time will never come, because the same selfish interests that are trying to destroy silver money here are doing or have done the same work there. To surrender anything to the monometallis, is to surrender everything. The friends of silver money must stand firm and fight this battle on its merits It would be fatal to concede this "request of the gold money advocates for a suspension sus-pension of silver coinage until such time AS Ot.npr inmifr!ao full.. j it , - '""J uuuer me control of the gold power agree to silver monev in any form. They will never agree to anything but exclusive gold coinage unless they are compelled ;to. They should be granted no concession whatever. What is wanted is free coinate. Let us have gold and silver money and no favors shown to either metal. Cleveland Plain Dealer, 15th. |