People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1894 — GAINING GROUND. [ARTICLE]

GAINING GROUND.

Silver Is More in Favor Now Than It Was a Few Months Ago. Everybody who is not factionally blind sees the fact that silver is more in favor in America to-day than it was six months ago The stampede worked up by Wall street to secure the repeal of the purchase clause has subsided and the country is getting its reason again, and sees the great wrong that has been done. But it is in Europe that the most suggestive reaction is to be noted. Not only has Balfour, the conservative leader in the house of commons, become a pronounced advocate of silver, but the movement is spreading. The bimetallic league is gaining influential members in all directions. Whenever the measure can get before parliament the Irish contingent of the liberal party will be found very largely in favor of bimetallism. A request has come from, Paris for co-operation with the London league. But the most important accessions in a financial way are Baron Erlanger, the famous financier; Thomas B. Salt, the president of Lloyd’s bank, one of the leading institutions in England, and Jacob Bright, liberal member of parliament. who have joined the league. The name of Erlanger is one of the foremost in the European financial world. In a recent address before the bankers’ association. Mr. Salt declared the more extensive use of silver was becoming a matter of necessity which Europe must speedily recognize. If the personally interested politicians and those who run party conventions do not prevent the people of the United States from having a chance to vote practically on the question, silver will be restored as standatd money just so soon as a president can be put in office who will sign p, bill to that effect. The p ople and the friends of silver must see to it that the votes of silver constituencies are not thrown in the air. That is the only danger.—Kansas City Journal.