The Republican journal., 1886-01-28
The Views of a Silver Advocate Con-
sidered.

apprchen>ion> which it contains. He says:
''lt is perhaps not to be wondered at that the
average iayman is somewhat at sea ON the silver
question. for the various contradictory phases
through which ii has passed i'll the last few wears
are enough to destroy the faith of any but the
most Bourbon of mono metallists in the iniaIlbility
OF their doctrine. When the Bland act passed
the dire predictions that were uttered of impend-
ing and imminent ruin which would follow filled
our eastern newspapers with horror and our busi.
ness men with dread; but now after the lapse Of
eight years, The situation does not appear radically
the worse. True there are l10Oo0.0o0 on - OF sill
VcrdullarS swelling the vaults of the United states
Treasury and 40,UUo,O0O or Whereabouts iii circua-
ton among the people but up to date no panic has
been caused by the coinage of the daddy collar'
The Bland bill was never passed. There is
no Bland law. The Bland bill provided for the
free coinage of silver. Mr.. Bland voted against
the present coinage law. If the Bland bill had
passed which opened the mint> to the coinage
of private silver bullion into dollars, the United
states would long ago have had silver mono
mctnllism without the aid of any gold, instead
of gold mono-mctallism with the aid of Silver.
The panic which The journal predicted al that
time was based upon the assumption of the
free coinage of silver. which Mr.. Bland and
the ntlaioniSis demanded. and which would
| ere this have given many millions of silver
dollars that they would have driven gold out of
the country.
whence, then, these frantic appeals for the
suspension OF the silver coinage? Whence these
tirades about the clipped dollar? There isn't Il
man, woman or child in this broad land who can
hot purchase just as many copies of The Boston
Journal just ls much bread, just as MUCH meat,
Just a much rloth, with a silver dollar ~ cam he
bought with the brightest gold or the newest green
back dollar: That is cold fact. Where, chen, Is
the tNll of the existing law:
, ti', ,'G'i'i H1" Ju>' d.
the silver has not vet become numerous as
| to crowd the gold out. But let Us 90 Oh COIN
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| 'oh'H on IN pP'li4 OF VINO Ie'itN houscS ahu
- Nl n9''i 10 l't' lntv ms '9lltrIris y
ply l>lo'' 'l.'' nc Hii'i pe t'u III 2onI' htn
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o' ere Sot'' III 'oIillIilH pFtihiHiH: W men 1t
| Vo,'i,i"i''N ii premium thoii IT. WIN no iohS.f
d. iioiil "lni we Slail ii nc upon d Nl'-
chn.,." rs m,,rL mrr,I,au,Iisn -. thn leniI n'n
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| lnands premium of one per cent, there Will
| be contraction OF the currency equal to the
| amount OF gold that h;t> been held as money,
| which Nill urolIi,,. a NiIr.urpoti u1ui, That
Will he tI,. tl il nf thn find INV ,T th.,, t
| il,.r j,II.,, y, m ,,t l ti , ,, ; - ,,
W ~ "oli'' " =" "o' ii'N ''i'' pun i'il'SihS power
| OF tlle Goi"'
ITO be sure there j. no apparent reason why the
| Government should not ulrchasr silver and con
vert ii into dollars if they viii not circulate: but 50
t;u a. can see the COY Nenlncnt h;l, made no hon-
| aat r1lou to circulate the silver dollar Horace
| Greeley famous tdNict Il, to the resumption of
| specie payments Wa- compri-cd in the sllccinct
| Declarations The way to re-nn, i. to rcstne'
and such in fact the Year 1873 proved was tie ease
hen hr Gov prllurt said that it, l,;pcr would ,,
redeemed win cola although is aulit, 10 ID; 50
v., NM, i r,n-nirnui,sIy ia,l,,n,ntn ia n,n,,ln
accc cplc,l its ,jrcll4tnu ii, lin If Nnu please n,
colmil,ivc and neither then nor noV i, ~nl a bon
u,r or n necessary medium Of r>rhai ec IN thi-
and used only when ;,p,r of mo- intrinsic ,.Ilur
| rauno; IL, ohlinc,I'
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We wonder II our correspondent has aNtcI-
tanned what steps the Government has taken 10
put silver dollars in circulation. or has he sim
py caught up and reiterated thr chnr,s,. which
fI u,vI,.r. N i,... ,,,i,,,y .,,,I tl a,i,n,t f
I l. Ii i 'ii 't' i " ~ ',' W ~
say thai the Government I'm, made ,xtraor,i
nary efforts 10 put silver dollars in circulation.
At great cNUt.ll,r il has Skinned Them to distant
paris of thi. coImtrv II has ,alS,I thpm ia he
paid out al every ,lii-trea.,ry for wear, in SIMS
below five dollars They havr been paid in
millions TO cuployrs The LEGAL fender one,
and two> have been withdrawn from circuIa-
ton H. far as possible, and are being retired now
i'm order to fur,. 1ht uruli ia fake silver ,Inl
ll1~ What more could the Treasury have
done? ii mi.eIt have. mia bond, in thr.n dol
lars, but thcl would hal, been paid in a> ,iutjr>
and ihll> found their way back TO thc Treasury
Ihcy come hnck bc,.a.,. If i human n,t,Ira tn,
ed As 10 rr.umiuu with cold Mir sherman
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N"N that >uN'i - H"l 4 ht'FNHdi! vi PopHHi
medium OF exchange a> to make the rcnark
$1,000 OF amy sum Of cold and silver to ANY man
50 than he can have his choice and he viii takc
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@oIH anu G't Ill paper Nilirh H. iio' iiliiit"atN
fHutelhapie III com. anu he VIII take tlio 3oh
O1cr INN cold anu redecmablc paper, ana he
will take the latter because il is more conv IN
rnIrumallr in coin II i foo late tn tr, tn re-
MI; tI ,.. itl i,,..,. =.
'i'N Wy ~ ''''s - -
ellis High MlghtinCS~, Postmaster General Ill
as has Republican precedent> for his position on
the mail subsidy question. He considers his
"p'il"h - 10 "Il'ii Is 'tNI?'t3lc IN tt man ItiN
f i' , MY in ' th , ',ii',nr I.,,it,. tht.
rmuhaIic viii of The nro,Ir rs lmIy r."i.irrcl IN
the passage OF the bin compelling the coinage of
| the silver dollar and reiterated year after year iii
| their refusal to suspend or repeal tlia. law, in
| SPIT" OF ail lhlS, I'VE htpnhllfam AdnnHtful"la
irii tr "i tH ,lt ~, % n
~ 1't th n,,u ,,I ',j' .';II' ,i,, ~
attempt to enforce il by using these dollars in pay