...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...

...Populists). June 23. 1897. — The platform approved the Chicago platform entire and reiterated the principle of free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to J-; said that prosperity promised by Republicans last year Is for the benefit of the few protected...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...depicting with all the attendant evils of continuing bond issues. The Democratic party has declared for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to I without waiting for international action. Whilst it has made other declarations in its platform, it...

...and every cognate ill, was due to the demonitization of silver, and would flee away under the spell of free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. But who arose to prove all this ? It never at any time passed beyond the stage of vehement and plausible...