Show mckinley and the remark made by county attorney whittemore of salt lake or perhaps it would be better to say the attributed to him by the dei deseret news and which he afterwards denied saying 11 that if mckinley is elected silver will be in ton ten months las has attracted attention iGn in III the eastern cartem press the chicago luter inter ocean says it is not easy te ta see what is meant by this remark the act of february 1878 for which mckinley voted as a member of congress Comres 3 silver and there has haa been no of it since then prior to the act of 1878 there had nev never e r been many si silver iver dol lars lara coined a trifle over aw in eighty one years but since then the amount has been about CO every one of them a full legal tender for all debts big and small public and private except of course where the contract specifically calis for gold the averrie annual output has bean three times the total for eighty years or to express it in average annual coina coinage e the amount has baa been about times more since 1878 than it was before then surely it would be absurd to talk about silver being de now perhaps this utahan had bad in wind mind an international agreement under which the mints of the world ours oars and everybody alses could be safely opened to tree free coinage under an agreed ratio jf if that is what he means it is is safe to say eav that before mr mckinley has hag been in the presidency half of ten months another conference with that end in view will have deen convoked cleveland could haye have procured such a conference anti and is ie greatly to blame for not doing so bat of course nobody can tora cast the result of auch a conference to make any statement on the score would be purely speculative all AH that can be said gaii is that the cause of genuine bimetallism calls for the election of me 1 kinley rather than bryan it is a mistake to talk of silver as bel being 1 ng demonetized de it passe passed d now as money just the same as gold A silver dollar is as good as a gold dollar for all debts not expressly calling for gold the act of 1873 provided that the silver coins of the united states be a trade dollar of grains a half dollar a quarter dollar and a dime and said coins says the law shall be legal tender at their nominal value for any amount not exceeding 5 in any one payment that was de silver robbing it of its full power as money Bime tallista like james G blaine wm mckinley and others were very much opposed to that act they held both metals should be on a parity and in 1878 through their efforts silver was i e given equal powers with gold so far as its purchasing power was concerned the law of 1878 was entitled an act to authorize the coinage of the standard standa rd silver dollar and to restore its legal tender character it provided that the silver coins of the act of 1837 be coined viz a dollar of grains a half dollar a quarter dollar a dime and a half dime which vh ich coins says the law together with all silver do dollars heretofore coined by the united states State of like weight and fineness shall be a legal tender at their no corn I 1 in al value for all debts and du dues pu public abir 1 and private except where otherwise stipulated in the contract that made our silver as good as it ever was so far as money was concerned it was fully but its old privilege at the mint had bad not been restored the law of 1837 provided that gold and silver bullion brought to the mint should be received and coined for the benefit of the depositor the depositor aoud cou d either get his own gold or silver back again as coin or lie could get the bullion exchanged hn for coin this mintage minta ge was tree free and un unlimited limite A but while the legal tender qualities were restored to silver coin by the act of I 1 1878 the unlimited coinage of the white metal was restricted to ON at the market price of silver per month the act of 1890 1690 increased it to ounces per month and when the democrats got into power they took away all the ape mintage advantage silver enjoyed now what the west wants is free coinage not of silver silver is already we all wan want t the purchasing power of silver maintained on a parity with gold silver is no more to be desired th than an gold the parity of the two metals can only be maintained by international I 1 ac tion the country which alone attempts tp free zo coinage inage especially if it be a debtor nation like the united states will go down to the silver basis of other nations Is we were out of debts debt it would make no dilt difference arence but there are about thirteen billions ot of dollars in gold obligations in this country and they would be doubled X by a depreciated currency it would take two dollars where it now takes one to pay those gold contracts for or repudiation is out oat of the question we take it with an honest people we must stand by the money of the constitution ution as mr bryan calls it gold and silver |