The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1881-03-17

This bill will prove great benefit to
our people, since it will decrease The
tax for annual interest one-,hird.
-.
The MONETARY CoNFERENCE.-It
certainly must be gratifying to the
people OF Delaware to witness the
change that is taking place in the
newspapers that denounced the old
Democratic doctrine of the Constitu-
ton that only dollars of gold and silver
were legal tenders. At the time the
Democratic party OF this State adopted
Its platform many of the newspapers
that no" favor bi-metalism were on
posing and denouncing the rumone-
tization OF silver. We make an ex
tract from one of these journals be-
low. While ii is one of the ablast
and best papers, the extract will show
That great change has come over its
dream in this particular
Lord Harrington, Secretary of State
~ A"Ni"i S"iN tii"e lug anu udu Lnus
lar NOT accepted the NV allon only
because lhe lolm oI IL seemed to com
mt the Governments accepting it to
the adoption oi bEmetal sm, aud that
negotiations were in progress with a
view to such modification of the m
Vltation as to permit England to ac
cept it Without beng bound, in al
vance Of the Conference, to adopt
p.meJdllSh'
lie international Monetary Coufer
ehce ol 1910 was lr Jected by Score
Ialy Evafls, ana the American pre-
sentative, Mr.. Walker, now Consul
denei al a Pdl1s, woS directly selected
BY the Secretary Oi STAT To eutbodN
his own views upon the auestie II TO be
discussed. la Iuat Cunlr,euc,. Gu
mahy aud nearly al The uthet iullo
tant Powers refused u AXE pant, aad
by the represe tatycs Of hose thai
did take part nothing was de t mined
upon, ahd very little done beyond tile
pieseh alton oi he case of Tue United
states oy Commissioner Walker. l
deed, 1t was pretty clearly uuderstnoa
That Mr.. Evalts' eHo:fs at that time
were directed rather lowarGs elicifIup
expressions Of opinion in c,l.uec ion
with the reconciliation Of silver Than
of securing a general agreement of he
Powers To adopt his suggestions
Germany dad not Join with Tie Unitpd
States and France III issuing the NV
tatiOn To the Conference OF 1881. but il
was the first to accept ia fact Of
some significance, taken il connection
with The declarations Of Prince Bis
marck, made over year ago. that the
remonetl cation of SILVER deserved most
earnest consideration, If it we're nor.
indeed, thing which should be seri
ously pressed What else he sad
about decentralization was that Der
many would not be likely To consent
to it unless Great Britain also consent,
ed
If Prince Bismarck had haor ohia
when he caused GERMANY Ia Il ,,or.
tie silver. to foresee what disa.tr,u,
results would follow hrs act i 49,,
would have been done AMI siIyo, a.
well AS pold. wanId ma M. sv,,or, ali
the world. That act nat atlv odnc.d
almost general financial min Ibr,ugh
ont .he German Emt,ire. I'm -
ing TO the declara lOn Of the late Mr..
D"seno'' was more damaging to In.
try had endnrsd ,or I, ,i1 ,., onaS oou ?
cepting, possibly, the famine which Ie.
suited IL The death OF some 1900, 00C
peopls i = mere &c fanny is excellent
Silver bnar5inas af ,ta T ,l', a,,o, 'iioi'
assisted very much in maintaining re.
sumption. The present buzzard dol
lar! la, are are nat at al he sort OF dolial'
GLe,v " aoc,''t 80 80 "9ulu OF
buu at hsme they are dollals taa coz
tain extent by virtue ofinrinsic wor
anu anu 70 ' l lull extent are hey real dol
able with o9ld allie a. ar ,H'ei on@,,g Y
by the Government itself rims bonds
etc."
here Is no oIneE country on tn
much silver as tile T-mf4dp spates ~ :
consequently, there is no Other 5