| 1897 - 812 pages
...the page is reached it is : " The free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation," which challenges the gold standard. " Free Silver," thimble No. 2. The trick is to fuse these two thimbles,... | |
| 1896 - 818 pages
...wanting in the Sherman silver act of 1890. It was manifestly the cornerstone of the doctrine of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, as its advocate has stated it in the past ; and it must be his reliance in the future. The protective... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1896 - 616 pages
...of the Bevolution.' After a declaration in favour of the free and unlimited coinage of both metals, at the ratio of 16 to 1, ' without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation,' this document proceeds, ' We demand that the standard silver dollar shall be full legal tender equally... | |
| 1896 - 806 pages
...the rule holds absolutely in the case of silver to the extent of 47 per cent of credit value in it. FREE AND UNLIMITED COINAGE of silver at the ratio of 16 to I will not increase the volume of money in the United States for a long time, but will at once destroy... | |
| 1896 - 342 pages
...routine of business having been transacted the following question was then debated, Resolved, " That the Free and Unlimited Coinage of Silver at the Ratio of 16 to J Would be Beneficial to Our Country. " Messrs. CJ Donigan and M. Lavy upheld the affirmative while... | |
| Henry Clews - 1887 - 884 pages
...country. There has been a campaign of education going on in this country ever since the advocate of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 first promulgated his doctrines. The benefit to the people of this knowledge of public affairs is clearly... | |
| Richard Theodore Ely - 1893 - 826 pages
...1886 it was 20.8 to i; and in 1894 it was 32.6 to 1. 1 It is evident that if the opportunity for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 had still existed, there would have been another sudden change in the actual monetary standard. Gold... | |
| 1895 - 694 pages
...private, and be equal in purchasing power with gold. •WASHINGTON POPULIST. Jane 29, 1S94. Demands "free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 without the consent of any other nation on earth." WEST VIRGINIA REPUBLICAN. May 6. 1892. Reaffirms Republican... | |
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