People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1894 — A SILVER UNION. [ARTICLE]

A SILVER UNION.

A Suggestion That May Be Open to Discussion. President Diaz, in his message to the Mexican congress, just assembled, refers to the proposed monetary conference of American countries with a view to effecting a union among them in the interest of silver. The Mexican president states that “in order to diminish the effects of the fluctuation of silver the government at the beginning of the year accepted an invitation to a monetary conference of the Amercan and principal Asiatic nations. The realization of this idea has been postponed on account of the war between the two nations whose participation is most necessary.” The Mexican government has shown itself to be heartily in favor of such a conference, and very likely the other silver countries are equally so, though they have not manifested the same interest in the matter. There is strong probability that at some time in the future the proposed conference will be held. There is a considerable number of people in the United States who believe that a union of American countries to promote the cause of silver would have good results, and especially would it exert a decided influence in inducing European countries to give more friendly consideration to the white metal. It is reasoned that such an arrangement, with the United States as a party to it, would be particularly profitably to this country in bringing to it a great pat-t of the enormous trade which the silver standard countries of this hemisphere now do with Europe, and that there would be created a magnificent commercial alliance between these countries of the greatest mutual benefit, the United States being, of course, the largest sharer in the advantages. It is urged that with such a union this country could be indifferent to European trade, since the American markets acquired would afford an ample outlet for our surplus production.—Omaha Bee.