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ENGLaND,s FARCE.

told by the press dispatches thai
the English government has re-
ferred the question of opening
the Indian minis to free coinage
to the Indian council for answer,
and the latest report received
from that quarter is that the
council is opposed to opening the
Indian minis, and that in the
face of this opposition, the Sails
bury administration will not dare
to give the Wolcott commission
any further encouragement in
regard to international bimettal-
ism. The report closes with the
remark that the efforts of the
Wolcott commission must, there
fore, prove abortive.
The truth of the whole matter,
says the Silver Knight Watch
man, is that the protests of the
English bankers and gold mon
gers against any favorably ac-
ton in behalf of silver by Eng
land has drowned the appeals of
the agriculturalists, manufactur-
ers, and labor organizations of
England for stable exchange,
and negatived the report of the
Royal Commission on depression
in agriculture, which has been
Investigating that subject for the
past four years and which rec
commended. international bimet-
allism as the only possible reme-
dy for falling prices which is
found to be the cause of agri-
cultural depression and hard
times in other pursuits. It isun-
deniable that the British govern
ment in 1892, without consult
ing the people of India, and, in
fact, without their knowledge, or
dered the closing of the Indian
minis to the free coinage of sill
yer. The people of India had no
more to do with the closing of the
mints to silver than had the peo-
pie of the United States in the
demonstration of silver in this
country by John Sherman in
1873. If the minis of India were
closed by England without con-
sulting the people, who will ques-
ion her power to open them to-
lay? 1t is notorious that three
hundred million people of India,
except the ninety thousand Brit
sh officers and men who are
stationed in India to rule the
country, and who want their
paid in gold, are in favor
If the immediate opening of the
hints to silver. Their savings
lave halved in value by that ar
,itrary decree of the British
government denying the right of
rec mintage to silver. 1t has
aggravated the present famine a
fold, and it is the direct (
:ause of the present uprising of
he people against British rule. ]
Letno one be deceived in the !
tempt of England to throw the /
upon the Indian I
'eople, India has no voice what t
yer in deciding the question for (
she had the minis would be t
pened at once. England, the !
reditor gold nation of the world, ;
opposed to elevating silver to ID
s 'rightful place as a money t
fetal, and her banking interests Il
ill compel her to close her eyes ;
the suffering of her laboring /
eople brought about by the sin 9
lie gold standard. f,
The only way for the people of Ii
lie United States to enjoy the P
enefits and blessings of bimetal-
SIN is for them to open their
ints to both gold and silver and IL
ot depend on foreign nations to N
gislate for this country. Inter- D
ational bimetallism would I'M a
'ubtedly be good thing. We T
slieve, however that national Of
would be better for d
e United States. h,
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