The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-07-21
OUR SILVER SYMPOSIUM.
Statement Of Replies Received 10
Three Questions on the Sill
YER Problem.

Last weak we gave u tabulated state
meme of a part of the replies to the fol-
owing three questions sent out on return
postal cards to the editors of different
journals (mostly dailies in places of 10. 600
and %upwards) throughout the country:
l. Does your Journal favor the repeal of
the Sherman Silver Law?
2. do You favor the enactment of a bill
providing for free colnag3 of silver &C the
present legal ratio?
8. Do you favor free coinage of silver
on some other ratio?
We continue that statement In the
present. issue. Up to the time of going to
press we have received replies from 175
Journals. Or these 125 favor uncondition-
ally the repeal OF the Sherman Acs, while
six favor the repeal of the silver purchase
clause only, There are Jwenty-seyeu
which favor the repeal Of the act. pro-
.vided free and unlimited silver coinage
be substituted; 10 are willing it should
go" provided some pet measure (seuer-
ally providing for increased volume of
currency be substituted, and ope is uu-
decided. Those VINO unconditionaily
oppose the repeal OF the Act number 6.
A further aualyeis shows that of the 1871
who favor Internationally the repeal of
the Act Including the 6 who favor the
repeal of the silver purchase clause onlv}.
SO ar 9 opposed to the free coinage of silver
upon any ratio whatever, % favor free
coinage upon such a ratio rs
may be liked by international agreement,
10 favor 1t upon the basis OF putting u
dollars worth of silver Cat market yaIue)
into the silver dollar, 4 favor it upon any
ratio that Will preserve bimeuaiiism Is
favor 1t upon the present ratio, 4 favor IL
upon some other (uot specitied) ratio
than the present, aud 8 are undecided.
VI the b who unqualfiedly oppose the
repeal, 2 favor free coinage at present
ratio. 8 favor free coinage upon an inter
national OASIS, and l Is opposed TO free
coinage absolutely.
Divided geographically, the replies re-
ce1ved from the Eastern States number
&c. OF these "a favor Internationally the
repeal OF the Sherman act. Politically
these comprise II Republican, 2 Inde-
pendent Republican. IL Democratic, 2
Independents Democratic. II Independent.
l Prohibition. ! Socialist Labor and 3
Financial Journals. Five journals, Of
which 3 are Republican, l Democratic and
l Indep pendent, favor the repeal of the
silver purchase clause; 2 ara opposed abb
solutely to repeal. 4 oppose the repeal
unless supplemented by q free coinage
law. and one does not answer the ques-
ton, hut favors bimetallisin. Eastern
States comprise all east Of Ohio and
north of Delaware. In oar table last
week, The Eln1iTa Ad0ertiSer (Rep } was
inadvertently put in the Democratic
column.
From Western States we have eighty
four replies. or these fifty-one favor I'M
conditionally the repeal of the Sherman
Act, and politically divided are as fol-
lows:-kep., 20, Ind. Rep. /; Dem, Is;
Ind. Dem, 2; independent, 8; Peoples,
2; Farmers ALI, 1; Prohibition. l, and
Labor. /. One paper (Rep.) fayors the
repeal of the silver purchase clause
only; 4 papers-2 Rep, l Dem.
and / I~nd.-oppose repeal absolutely;
Is papers-2 DEM. 4 Ind, 4 Peoples and
5 miscelianeous-favor repeal only upon
condition thai free coinage be substi-
tuted; while IS others, embracing all
shades of politics, do not favor repeal un-
less .'something better" Casually in
creased volume of currency be subsri-
tnted. We have classed Missouri as a
"Western State"
From the Southern States we have re-
ceived % replies. OF these II favor uu-
conditional repeal. aud are thus classed
politically: Rep. j; DEM, Z; Indepen-
dent. 6; Prohibition. 8. One a er
Gar. ALL is opposed to repeal absolute
ly; 2 papers (Dem.) oppose repeal unless
supplemented by some legislation to pre-
vent stringency, n 5. of various politi-
cal shades, oppose repeal uuless supple
mented by free coinage of silver.
We tabnlate the result on the question
of repeal of the Act az follows: