 | 1897 - 808 pages
...enormous bounty to the producers of competing agricultural staples in silver standard countries, which the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 would put an end to. 6. Even the grangers themselves do not heartily support the proposition ; that... | |
 | 1896 - 806 pages
...if it is driven out of circulation. Such was the fact during the Civil War. The practical effect of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to i therefore will be not bimetallism but silver monometallism, and this no one has the hardihood or... | |
 | 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 - 880 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
...by 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... | |
 | Montana. Bureau of Agriculture, Labor, and Industry - 1895 - 208 pages
...earners of the State are, perhaps without an exception, earnestly in favor of legislation establishing the •' free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1," only 310 of all reporting so state in reply to the above question, although they answered, with scarcely... | |
 | 1895 - 938 pages
...State administration of Colorado and the congressional work of John C. Bell and l.afe Pence ; demands the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 ; protests against the issuance of Government bonds in tunen of peace ; insists that the National Government... | |
 | George Edward Plumbe, James Langland, Claude Othello Pike - 1895 - 486 pages
...independence, the Omaha platform of 1892, and especially to that party which declares: 1, For the immediate free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. 2. We oppose the issue of United States bonds under any pretext whatever. In the midst of a monetary... | |
 | 1896 - 938 pages
...understand that the editor of the MEDICAL BRIEF has always been a Democrat; If so, why Is he not in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 ? DEMOCRAT. ANSWER. The editor of the BRIEF belongs to the masses and not to the classes. He is not... | |
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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. 
