Shall Mints Or Mills Be Opened?

The Popocrats dweil much upon the hard times as an excuse for asking the country to make an experiment. They say to the voter: "You're hard up, anyhovv, and you might as well risk this. You can 't be much worse off if it does g-o wrong." This is the kind of an experiment they ask him to make: "We (Iemand the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, without waitiiis for the aid or consent of any other nation." The Republicans also see the distress that has come to the people, and their idea of the remedy, as expressed by Major McKinley, is this: "It is a sjood deal better to open np the milis of the United States to the labor ot Americana t han to opea up the inints of the United States to the silver of the world." It is for American workrnen to judge whether they want 53-cent dollars for the work that they do now, or a 1002ent dollar for the work they might do If milis started up again. - New York Tribune. The aid of a display heading1 and 3ouble-leaded type have lately been :alled in to give prominence to an arti;le in a London, Eng1., paper, showing n glowing terms the beneficial results that wou ld come to this country from Ihe frce coinage of silver, and cautionng the English against the losses of ,heir markets if they continue the ?old Standard. The article is followed y the peculiar statement that L'the ibove appeared in the London Finanial News of Maroh 10, 1896, but es:aped observation till recentlv, when t was discovered and pxit into circulaUon by the Philadelphia Item." The veight. which should attach to the irticle, if it s not a fake, may ba inerred from the f act that the journal n which it appeared is so obscure that he article itself was not discovered mtil more than four months after it vas printed.