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Show innnisiTii coxgre. Tlie .VallonatEaeenllTe Miser Commission Com-mission .lUtncat fret Coinage. WASiiiSGToy, Dec. 11. The national na-tional executive silver commission today is-ued an addrcM to Con-gns: Con-gns: The commission believes the present money stringency aud tlie breaking down of credit on both sides of tiio Atlautlc mainly, if not entirely, due to tho attempt to conduct con-duct tho world's growing bu-Inets on the narrowing oasis of gold as a siucle money stiudard and again appeals to Congress to delay no longer lon-ger the restoration of silver to unlimited un-limited useas money, with all the rights of coinage and legal tender possessed by goIJ. All attempts to relievo the present situation by increasing in-creasing the volume of credit currency cur-rency or multiplying credit cxpe-nlents cxpe-nlents can afford lait temporary re lief. With the gold supply cou-stantly cou-stantly diminishing, the population increasing and lira business rapidly expanding recurrence of the present sltuatfou must come, forcing a jwri-oolcal jwri-oolcal adjustment of prices and business busi-ness to the ever contracting scale of a single gold staudard. What is needed is a broader basin of primary money, constant and adequate supply. Itimetahsm must be re-etabllsed. Tllere never has been and is not likely to be In the future too much gol I and silver to supply the world's reeds for money. To supply the probable population of tbo United States alone, for the next century, with the same per capita we now have, will require the production of the metals as great as the entire production of tbe American Ameri-can continent since its dbcovery by Columbus. With the free coinage of silver tho difference between silver bullion bul-lion and silver coin must at once disappearandeiidsIUe speculation. If everybody can liavo silver metal converted Into coinage free of cost at tli" rate of .171 grains to tbe dollar, dol-lar, then of course there can be no difference between tbo value' of silver in bullion or coin. The commission believes the fear that free coinage would destroy tho parity of Sold and silver on our ratio of sixteen to oue not ell founded. Certainly this cannot take place and continue permanently permanent-ly until eaough silver has been i asssassssasssMssssi co'pBJ t? provide us with our full dbtribuUve share cf tbo ttotld's money, independently of gold. Our share at present b $1,500,000,000. cf which at least $630,000,000 Is gold. Silver enough mutt be coined, then, to give the United States the full l,500,003,000, besides the. gold and besides enough to take tbe place of retired bauk notes and supply the requirements of our Increasing population and growing Industries. Resides, the proposed issue of new-paper new-paper money will tend In the same degree to dbplace gold that filter im. . . Which, then, Is bet, metallc money, constant in supply, self-reg-uUtlng and that needs no redemp Hon, or additional credit money, to be some time redeemed In gold, that become constantly dearer as tbe demands de-mands upon it Increase; The peo-pUademaudthattbelr peo-pUademaudthattbelr constitutional right to havu recotirse to both gold and silver for money be restored to them. |