The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1895-08-28
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Editor Representative:
/ give you herewith, synopsis and
reference to series Of acts of congress,
which have played "hari kari with the
internal affairs of the people of the
United States, as affecting our finances.
i advise your readers to preserve this
article for reference, as it will aid them
in tracking the financial policy of John
Sherman, Grover Cleveland and the
gold syndicate.
give first, the pledges of the govern
ment to pay the national debt in COIN.
1t is found in Title XIII. The Public
Debt" Section 1893. The faith of the
United States is solemnly pledged to the
payment in COIN or it's equivalent of all
the obligations of the United States not
bearing interest, known as United States
notes, and of all the interest bearing OBJ
legations of the United States, except in
cases where the law authorizing the
issue Of any such obligations has ex
pressy provided that the same may be
paid in lawful money or other currency
than gold and silver"
This act became a law 18th March,
1869.
The effect of this act was to close out
the greenback party, which proposed to
issue greenbacks to meet these obliga
tons, as repeal was an impOssibility.
1t will be observed that under this law
gold and silver were treated as lawful
money, and both alike
Had this law, which was passed at the
command of the bondholders, foreign
and domestic, remained intact no cred
itor of the United States could have had
the face to object being paid in silver.
Will any man on earth dispute this?
would like to look at him when found
turn now to
TITLE XXXVII. COINAGE,
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
Sec 3511. The gold coins of the
United States shall be one dollar piece,
which, at the standard weight of 25 $40
grains shall be the unit of value" This
changed the unit of value from silver to
gold.
Then follows provisions for other
gold coins Then comes silver coins:
Sec 1913 The silver coins of the
United States shall be trade dollar, a
half dollar, or fifty cent piece ETC., then
going over small coins. T he trade dol
lar was to contain APO grains troy.
Now read:
"Sec. 1920 Any owner of silver bull
lion may deposit the same at any mint,
to be formed into bars, or into dollars of
the weight of 420 grains troy, designated
in this title (same as last given), as trade
dollars, and no deposit of silver for other
coinage shall be received"
Bear in mind the coinage of trade dol
lars designed for Asiatic trade, was soon
n nn6 hVy hn
treasurer, and not one is now in circula-
ton. They were never a legal tender.
Observe how adroitiy the standard sill
yer dollar of 1892 was obliterated. It is
not mentioned in Sec 1913, but the trade
dollar is. Then observe that Sec. $500
expressly provides that mo deposit of
silver for other coinage (than for trade
dollars) shall be received
And away went the dollar of the
daddies" and of the Federal Constitution.
1t is a fact, shown by the Daily Con-
gressional Record, that Sec. 1913, as codi-
fed in the United States statutes now
before me, contained originally a pro-
vision for standard silver dollar of 1884
grains, which was to give us dollar the
exact equivalent of the French five-franc
piece, -151a to l. This was the dollar
which that arch traitor, John Sherman,
who has been chairman of the Senate
finance committee since 1861, told the
Senate when the bill passed, sub silento,
was ito float around the world" He
ought to be proud of his fine work with
the monetary affairs of the United States,
not forgetting his silver bill of 1890, and
it's subsequent repeal.
Under the Bland-Allison act, we got
back our silver dollar, with a rope
around its neck. From Dan to Beershe-
ba, the gold bugs set UP howl against
the use of the plugs" The silverites
set up wall for the dollar,-but the in
convenience in using large quantities Of
silver, now legal tender. suggested the
silver certificate. But the gold rascals
would not make it legal tender, as the
dollar was behind it.
Going back a little, look at the follow
ing Section, in the act of 18th February,
1878:
Sec. 1856. The silver coins Of the
United States shall be legal tender of
their nominal value for any amount not
exceeding five dollars in any one pay
ment."
This was in force until the act of 1878,
but this 1878 act gave, as everybody
now knows, the right to every bank and
all money loaners, the legal right to
make contracts payable in gold. Such
| contracts are now the rule throughout
| the country.
This legislation had one directing
hand. Trace it along down from the or
| ganization of national banks with their
imperial privileges, to the act of 1862
| then on down to the act of 1873,-that
relating to coinage, weights and meas
ures and to legal tender, both bearing
the same date Q2th Feb, 1879 and the
act of 1878, giving the right to make gold
contracts, and then the repeal of the 9Th
Aug, 1893, special session of congress, of
Sherman's 1890 silver bill, and we find a
| continuous purpose to surreptitiously de-
| stroy one of our coinage metals.
In all these windings, John Sherman
| and Wall street are visble;-lying cheat
ing. hypocracy, forgery and perjury, are
| the factors in this diabolical work.
WEIGH.
"DISTURBER AND DREAMER"
His life was a ceaseless protest and his
voice was a prophets cry,
tn true to the truth and faithful though