People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1894 — A PROLIFIC STUDY. [ARTICLE]

A PROLIFIC STUDY.

The Sliver Question Is Receiving the Attention of the People. While President Cleveland was lately studying the seigniorage bill other people were also reading up on the silver question. As a distinguished Englishman puts it, “this silver question is the biggest American issue since the war of the rebellion,” so it is but natural that people of all classes and conditions should be giving it some attention. And to show the respect that is being paid to the silver cause even by its enemies we find a statement in the financial column of the Chicago Tribune, a most pronounced anti-silver paper, that an international silver conference in the near future is a strong probability, and that this time our country will not have to take a secondary place and have to submit to the patronizing airs of Europe. As a matter of special interest bearing on this changed prospect, the Tribune quotes from a letter from a member of one of the foremost banking houses of London and Paris, in which he says: “Rest assured that there will be another silver conference. Every important nation will join it The United will this time command a more serious position than ever before any of the European nations were willing to accord.” The letter adds that it is open talk in inner circles that the Prince of Wales “is becoming something of a devotee of the bimetallic doctrines of Goschen.” When the Tribune’s New York correspondent went among the bankers of the metropolis and asked their opinions as to the prospects of another international conference, it was generally conceded that such a conference was certain. — Portland (Ore.) Telegram.