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Silver has gone down again, and the silver in a silver dollar is not worth more than 48 cents. That means a decline of 10 per cent since the campaign of 1896 opened, for then it was valued at about 53 cents. The Bryan 53-cent dollar has becoine a 48-cent dollar. Meanwhile, wheat has refused to fall at all. It has advanced decidedly. Wool has risen. So has leather. Pork and lard are higher. Rice has gone up a little. Cotton is not down like silver. Oopper and lead have gone up. So have many other articles of merchandise. Even whisky has just been advanced a notch by the distillers. In the face of these facts the Popocrats and Populista in Congress continue to assert that the only way to make business and industry flourish is to recognize the supreme influence of silver as a actor in the markets and the possibility f trade. Tliey have given up the old laim that there could be no advance in riees without a corresponding rise in il ver, but they still cling to the delusion hat silver in some way regulates the world. It is a curious case of perverse blindness to the plain meaning of business acts too big and solid for anyone with air mental powers and a real desire to know the truth, to overlook or misunlerstand. kadSes libnary, Hurom et., opea dally frotn 10 to 12, also Satwday irom 2 to 5 o'clock.