Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1898-06-11
A RAY OF LIGHT FUR SILVER.

Silver has been slowly approaching
in price oflate, and the reason given
has been that it was wanted by Spain.
1t is possible hat there is a deeper
reason. The following letter from
Mr.. Frewen is most interesting and
significant, for it brings a Strong in
diCation that the Indian conspiracy
the attempt of some government
officers to place Iudia on a gold stand
ard-has broken down, or rather that
the plan has been killed, and killed,
too, by the rapid gold mile square of
London. The letter is as subjoined:
"Etitor Tribune: l send you BY
this mail the Pioneer, which is the
leading Anglo-Indian newspaper, and
its leader on the Indian currency
will show you the disaster to that
country occasioned by the mad pro-
jects of 90. The proposals of the
government to consummate that
scandal, 10 doubt you have air eadv
received.
But l rejoice to say that Lord
George Hamilton, the secretary of
state, is at last completely discred-
tied in parliament itself by the sup
port he has given to Sir James West
land and his mad proposals, and the
pendulum in Lombard street is now
swinging so strongly in the other di-
rection that we now quiet anticipate
the early ~reopening of the Indian
minis to the free coinage of silver.
When | mention that in the currency
of Great Britain we have at most
ninety million soverigns, and that
the proposals Of the government of
India would require the remittance
to India by its government of twenty
millions, and by British merchants
remittances, a further thirty millions
OF these sovereigns, you will have
heard quiet enough of this absurd
and nefarious scheme
1T being impossible either to stand
Still or to move forward, the only
course for the government of India is
to go back and to reopen the minis to
silver; and with the minis of three
hundred million of people who hav-
ing no banks, absorb silver as a
sponge absorbs water-with these
minis again open, it seems to me that
IN 1900 great numbers of your voters
who did not see their way to support
American free coinage single handed,
will no longer be influenced by that
objection.
1T is interesting, is it not, that
the obstacle to this final blow which
was to have been aimed at silver,
is to be found in Lombard street it.
self Sincerely yours.
MoRETON FREwEN.
May "a, 1898"
The Pioneer confirms all that the
letter states. The condition in In
dia is so desperate that something
will have to be done very soon or
chaos will come there, and there
seems no other course open except to
reopen the mint$. The purpose was
to borrow k2o, ooo, 900 from England
as a basis for a gold standard in that
country and it probably would have
carried except fo1 the fear that In
dia' S creditors IN England would have
drawn the money back about as soon
as it reached the Orient. Now is the
time when the administration. if it
had the prescience of states1nanship.
would renew its request tor jnterna
tional blmetallism and would be
aggressive in the request. Right now
parliament would be in session to hear
the call, and our belief is that the
matter might if presented earnestly
by our country, be fixed in three
months, Salt Lake Tribune.