The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1894-06-14
THE SAGE OF ENOREE
Exhaustively H. Reviews the silver
Question.

Exhalistively Reviews the silver
Question.
He CLAIMS THAT SILVER HAS NEv-
Err BEEN DEMoNETIZED AND THAT
FREE COINAGE OF SILVER 10 LIE
GALLY IN FORCE Now--A LOGICAL
| ARGUMENT.
CONTINUED.
on the part Of tho government and
buying silver bullion and having
it struck and coined into currency,
did not in any way impair tho rights
of tho owners Of other gold or sill
vor bullion to tako their bullion to
the mint and havo it struck and
coined is clearly proved by tho 18th
section of tho Act of March the Sd,
1858.
And be it further enacted,
That tho owner or owners of
any gold or silver bullion, in
dust or otherwise, Or Of any
foreign coin, shall be entitled to
deposit the same in tic said
office and the treasurer thereof
shall give a receipt stating the
weight and description thereof
in the manner and under the
regulations that are or may be
provided in like cases Of deposit
at the mint of the United States
with the treasurer thereof. And
such bullion shall without delay
be melted, PARTED, refined and
assayed and the next value
thereof, and of all foreign coins
deposited in said office, shall be
ascertained, and the treasurer
shall thercupon forthwith issue
his certificate Of the net value
thereof payable in coins Of the
same metal as that deposited
either at the office of the Assist
ant Treasurer Of the United
States in New York, or at the
mint of the United States, at the
loption Of the depositor, to be
expressed in the certificate,
which certificate shall bo receiv-
able at any time within sixty
days FROM the date thereof in
payment Of all debts due the
United States at the port Of New
York for the full sum therein
certified.
[ We have clearly shown that
up to this time gold and silver
had the samo rights Of coinage
and the same debt-paying pow
ers-that the parity between
these two metals was finally
readjusted and fixed by the Act
of January 19, 1887, and that
the stan dard silver dollar 412
1-2 grams, ninc-tenths fine, was
adopted as our money unit on
the 2d OF April, 1902, when our
monetary system was establish
ed, it being of the same value as
the old Spanish milled dollar
! that had been recognized
throughout all the colonies of
North America for centuries, as
the money unit, the dollar of
account, and was made a legal
tender in 1850, even by old Eng
land.
Then came the war between
the States with it's deaths and
desolations. Special payments
were suspended for eighteen
years. But beyond the middle
of the time of suspension the Act
| of the 18th day of February,
1878, to receive and amend
tho laws relative to the mint,
assay Offices and coinage of the
United States, was passed by
Congress.
This Act has been styled and
is known as the crime Of the
ages. 1t can serve no good pur-
pose 20 enquire at this late day
who is responsible for it. Suf-
ficient it to say every member
of the Congress of the United
States of 1878 is responsible for
it by his act, either Of commits
sion or omission. The intelli-
gence, virtue and manhood of
the South had no part in it.
They were not there. They
were denied representation. If
their representatives had been