The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-09-11

will look over the map of North America
and miss paymaster. v
"Heaven- from all creation hldes the
- book Of fate. =
It may happen that in 1896 the people
will endorse this transactions ! look Tor
them to do it. It now seems probable
that they will. The combination is,
fear, too strong to be overcome. In the
cities the rascals will buy votes by the
regiment; in the ope1 country the voters
will be led by the nose by demagogues
and played upon as you sound the notes
of bag-pipes. Be this as it may, the peo-
pie have learned few things. Against
the most persistent statements to the
contrary-lies of the blacklist character
known by the uterers to be such, her
aided in print and from the rostrum by
-knaYes and assassins of history, yet the
following
FACTS ARE FIRMLY ESTABLISHED:
1st. That in 1892, in providing for
United States coinage, the standard Sill
yer dollar of certain number of grains
(416) was provided for, and vas declared
to be the unit of federal money, other
silver coins in like proportion.
End. That in 1887, the weight OF the
silver dollar was reduced to 4121a grains,
3d. That in 1853, the silver dollars OF
412h grains, being at the ratio of Is to
l, were undervalued as compared with
European silver coinage, and to prevent
their expectation, their coinage was
stopped, and the weight of the half dollar
was reduced from 2o6A grains to 1872
| grains, and smaller coins in proper
| ton.
4th. That the dollar of 416 grains OF
| 1892, and the dollar og 4121s grains Of
| 1887, still was, in conformity to the dec
| imal system of coins in which all public
accounts were kept, the unit OF federal
value and by which all other coinage
| was measured.
5th. That between the years 1898 and
| 1873, inclusive, the silver coinage
amounted to $172, 1872, 7S0.23; of minor
coinage, 81, 919, S3S.55, being small silver
coins, the three-cent piece and copper.
9Th That the gold coinage of all de-
nominations, for the same period, was in
value $1,O97 ,683, SLIP; the excess Of
gold coinage over silver being over 9l2
millions.
7th That the claim that silver was
largely in excess in amount compared
with gold, necessitating it's destruction
as primary money, was and is brazen
lie.
Sth. That in the act respecting Coin
age, weights and measures" of Feb. II
1878, provision was made for standard
silver dollar of 384 grains, the equivalent
of the five-franc piece of French coinage
and which John Sherman, as chairman
of the Senate Finance Committee, stated
was a dollar which would float around
the world" and that the bill passed
with that understanding.
9Th That that dollar was surrepti
tiously dropped from the bill, and was
not discovered until long afterwards.
10th. That in 1869 an act was passed
pledging the faith of the United State!
to pay the national debt in coin; tina
it was specially the law demanded by
foreign and domestic creditors OF the ma
ton.
18th. That on the 18th of February
1873, an act entitled Legal tender
was passed limiting the legal tender
power of silver coin to five dollars IL
any one payment-equivalent to decla
ration to pay the national debt in gold
and that the act of 1869 noted in subdi
vision 10 was lobbied through congress
in order to smash the greenback part,
and to pave the way for the infamou
| illegal tender" act above noted.
18th. That in 1878 the limited cOinag
of the silver dollar was resumed, and wa
made legal tender the same as gold
unless otherwise provided in the con
tract; but~that in issuing silver certifi
Gates the gold gOurmands refused to Civ
them even the limited legal tender char
acter of the dollars behind them.
18th. That from thence hitherto unit
: now, notes, bonds, mortgages and al
other forms of Indebtedness Gncludin
state and municipal bonds), resting O.
contract, the debtor is generally obi
gated to pay in gold with like interest.
14th. That since the establishing G
the working of the gold standard, tn
l commercial value of silver has sunk full
so per cent, and that all other kinds c
property have gone down with it, leavin
s debtors victims to hopeless bankruptcy
. that neither debts, salaries or taxes hav
r grown any less in amount.
!, 18th. That strikes, riots, bloodshet
l trampism, murders, suicides and crime
y of every grade have fearfully increased
t and that the main cause is tracable d
l rectly to the disordered and chaotic cor
g dition of the financial concers of the ne
Y ton.
d 10th. That when the standard silve
e dollar of 4121a grains was dropped fror
e the mintage by the coinage act of Eel
: IL, 1873 and it's legal tender power CT
g down to IS, in any one payment by an
= other act denominated; of legal ter
: der" but of the same date (both acts tai
: ing effect simultaneously, that silve
+ dollar was worth, intrinsically, over a
e other silver coins, 42-100 per cent, an
l, in current value about Az per cen
IS and worth a premium over the go1
e standard dollar of the weight of rs
h grains (Which, by said coinage act
d 1873, was declared to represent alone tt
5, unit of federal money!, over per cen
: 18th. That these three enactments la
above named, consummated what is POI
1t ularly and TRULY labelled
n "THE CRIME OF 1873"
q WIN. WEIGH.
Minneapolis, Sept. 9.