Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1894-10-24
BLESSINGS CAME WITH THE Sill.
WEIR DOLLAR.

Attention is called to the 18th day
of October, 1891. That will be the
one hundrcdth anniversary of the first
silver dollar ever minted in the Unit
ed Stat IS. 1t was created as legal
tender for onc dollar of debt, and
from the moment of it's creation was
at par Wi Ii its brother in law, the
gold dollar, as in debt paying one
coull do no more thln the other. On
the passage of the act of congress in
1885. fer the creation of the silver dol
lar, the dealers in gold made as much
fight against putting the law into
execution rs one doctor could make
against the coming of another physi-
clan to divide his practice and cheap
en- the cost of medical attendance to
the sick. Not until October Is, 1904,
was the machinery for minting silver
dollars permitted to be put in opera
ton. On the 18Th of July, 170i, the
Bank of Maryland deposited for coin.
age i'll the mint at Philadelphia box
filled with odds and ends of silver
coins chiefly those which had come
here from France, to the bullion value
Of SS0,7l5. as the records prove.
This was to be coined into full legal
tender for the payment of debts. and
gave to the Bank of Maryland this
much of a start or advantage in hav-
ing actual money to lend on interest
to its customers. On the 18th Of Oc-
tober, 1871, the first lot of those new
American coins were ready and de-
ivered, 1853 bright silver dollars they
were, to the bank, and thus was
opened a new way to legally pay
debts. With the coming of silver
coins into existence the power of the
gold dealers who demanded that from
them the government should buy the
bullion required for the making Of
gold money or gold for the payment
of debts was divided. Gold and sill
yer coins were side by side at their
face value for years as debt payers,
till came the war, when it was dis
covered that the government had the
same right and constitutional power
to ere tie full legal tender paper
money, as it had to create full legal
tender gold money and full legal tender
silver monsy. and never did any
country 80 Withstand the shock of
war and proceed with her enter
prises as did this country under the
encouraging companionship Of what
Is still known as greenback money,
termed greenbacks because of it's be-
ing printed in green, the only color
that could not be counterfeited
by any Of the processes Of photog.
raphy.
The demonstration Of the silver
dollar, and the conversion of the
gre ,nback dollar into non taxable
interest drawing bonds were the two
greatest crimes ever committed
against the COVER nment and the PEG
pie OF the United States, and all this
rot about the international confer
ences to agree on what the people OF
America may use as legal tender al
home is as absurd as to have nationa
congress to agree on the size and ma
terial Of toothpicks, or the exact
amount OF water man uses wher
washing his face and hands.
Suppose that ON the 18th OF October
1875, the new issue Of full legal ten
der silver dollars, as authorized by &
new coinage act Of Congress, shall
appear, as the opening chorus of thu
glad song Of the mint telling of the
free and unlimited coinage of silver
into full legal debt payers here in the
United States OF America.-B ricl
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