Show SILVER JUGGLERY I 1 in answer to the question when fill ver vcr was demonetize de how low it WAS de and what i tho the indianapolis journal offers this misleading anti and specious reply lot let us u answer the last part pare of the awes aes ues lion first means ta to convert into inlo money and means to loprino any anything thin which liia has been used as ab money of its power as 01 ski uch c it if theto theio had been a n or of sliver it would not now be used iia 4 agai tender andr money As no bliver i dol dollar L i r ever coined hats has doen been deprived of its leral legal power as money the th silver allver dollar has haa never awn b n in IS v m hen bon no silver was wad in circulation and tho the liver bullion lit in A dollar woi was worth tl 4 03 in III gold tho the silver dollar was waa drop dropped oil from tho the icil alit of coins issued by th the ntinos F ats liec lieford foro ford tile united states returned turned rf to specie tho the law of was wa pil passed fiscu iscu rei requiring quiring tho the Soc rotary tary of 0 the treasury to huso nt not less lc aw than and not lot moro more than worth morth of sliver milver brillan a a month and coin it into silver dollars winch which should bo be full money thai 16 money meney ft fill which all debts can be pall under that and tho elio sherman purchase so act 4 of silver dollars have ath bf en coined before that act only about am 41 W of such dollars had aten coined bom a om tho the or of the mint in 1793 1 by wash I 1 agton elgh ty elx years tho the fact that have been coined since lilloll ai 1 aeu years yeara disproves tho the el elarge clargo arge of it cpa ii lion it if aou ou owe a debt of ct A a if dollars ollita you can pay it with A a million lid slavi if dollars which chic fay I 1 proves that sll sit var vcr aks lias full bonev power tho govern m n has haa limited tho the coinage of sliver silver to tile amount which can bo be kept dollar for dollar equal to gold old that Is a characteristic specimen of eastern honesty in the discussion of ahli question the facts are these at tho the beginning of tho the government tile tho silver doll dollar arwas was mado made tho the unit of val use and sliver silver dollars were full legal tender borall debts Tho Theo Government received silver at the mints and coined it for everybody it was wag the primary money ot of the country in it was de that is the sliver silver dollar was dropped from the coinage of the lim country lit in 1874 its power to pay debts to exceed 3 5 was taken away incidentally wo may mention that in the law was changed so that tiny any one carrying bullion to the mint instead of having it coined sold it but tho the price was waa riot not changed the government purchased it at 12 without question it Is not truo true that in 1873 no silver was lit in circulation there was over in circulation and it if the coinage of 0 dollars had cep ceased used it was masks because our ratio b clog being a point higher than that of 0 europe men who had silver would not sell it at lam but preferred sending bending it abroad it Is true that before the united states returned to specie payments tho the law of 0 was passed pass cil requiring tile the secretary of the treasury to purchase not less leas than and not more than worth of 0 silver bullion a month anti and coin it into dollars should be full money that and tho the next paragraph are both true but the journal purposely omits to tell its correspondent that in the meantime sold gold was the standard and that the sliver silver dollar wits was forced to lean upon the gold dollar that it had bad ceased to bo be it a primary money that it had bad been disgraced by tho the government that the amount to be coined wills was limited for the solo sole purpose pose 0 of advertising to the was merely as a convenience that the standard had been fully changed to sold gold and when coined by the united states it was with the understanding that it should lean on gold the same as the greenback and every other promise to pay in the country does of course up to 1819 this country produced no silver so eo soon as it began to produce in large quantities the creditor claa cla of iu rope lope and the united states fearing that money would become so plenty that people generally mould pay their debts debt determined to cut it in two and throw halt away and they have succeeded the last parag paragraph mph states the case exactly the government has limited the coinage of 0 sliver silver to an amount which can be kept dollar for dollar equal to goll gold that Is it Is see ork darty money and has to lean upon gold the journal neglects to state that what made it secondary money and destroyed it as prime primary ry money so no that it ceased to be a factor actor in regulating values was sinister legislation and which whatever tho the raci motive tive behind b it may have been w was W I 1 tile the most calamitous legislation leisl atlon ever wade made let in this country and which as the facts have developed has brought more hardships in its train than any ally legislation ever before conceived of 0 and that the republican party which up to the last convention lias has pretended to favor bimetallism and the restora lion or of silver lias has now declared tor for the maintenance mai 0 an absolute gold standard by that act it has toi forfeited felted the confidence connet nce of such men throughout this republic as aa believe that no lifting of 0 the present depression can ever bo be accomplished until the restoration of 0 silver chall become a teed fixed fact |