condition of the problem to which it applies, and commends itself as the best, if not the only, way out of our financial embarrassments. II. BIMETALLISM EXTINGUISHED. BY JOHN CLARK RIDPATH. The article on "Bimetallism Simplified" by Mr. George H. Lepper is open to one serious criticism: the title should be changed to "Bimetallism _Extinguished_;" for, when the argument is translated out of its sophistical form, that is its precise meaning. We are obliged, in such a matter as this--even at the expense of courtesy--to break through the thin film of plausibility, and at one stroke to lay bare what is in the bottom. It is a marvellous thing that they who engage in excogitating this kind of double-meaning literature about bimetallism, should suppose that the people can any longer be deluded with it. The agents of the money-power and the fuglemen of the dominant political party seem to think that a certain species of casuistry and complicated makeshift of argument can still be forced into currency, as it has been in the past, and that the great American democracy can be persuaded thereby to accept fallacy for truth and thus to perpetuate the reigning Dynasty of Robbers. Messieurs, you can perform this feat no longer. Mr. Lepper admits in the outset that the McKinley administration is doomed _unless_ it can provide the country with a sound and popular system of bimetallism. As a matter of fact, a sound system of bimetallism is simply bimetallism. A popular system of bimetallism is simply bimetallism--neither more nor less. In this vital matter, the popularity will take care of itself, and so will the soundness. In the next place, we observe that if the McKinley administration depends upon the adoption by it of _any_ system of bimetallism, then the administration is doomed, deeply and darkly doomed, already. Let the world know that the McKinley administration will not provide, and has never intended to provide, the country with _any_ kind of bimetallism. The administration has no notion of such a thing. It was not created for such a useful and honorable destiny. It was created to prevent bimetallism by treacherously pretending to be in favor of it. They who created the administration, they who determine and will continue to determine its action, openly sneer at any system of money except the gold-based system of monometallism. Mr. Lepper must be aware of this fact. Indeed it is to be hoped that there is not any longer _one man_ in the United States so far gone down the slopes of delusion and idiotic infatuation as to imagine that the hollow pretensions of this administration in the direction of bimetallism by international agreement, or by any other method, have ever been anything else than cunning subterfuge and treachery.