Show silvor silver chinaga from 1732 1702 to 1373 1873 ina in 1 recent interview secretary carlisle i reported to have given t the ile total tota I 1 coinage of silver dollars from the hid establishment of the mint in 1792 to 1873 as but while this statement is true ns as far a as s it ROCS goes it is but half tile the truth und and therefore is 13 likely to ini mislead and especially as the Secre Secret arya reputation for fairness and impartially may put people off their glaid in a matter of this kind the tit fad fact ix i 4 that while but a little over of standard silver dollars role struck in the period stated it is alo true that up to lg nil all fractional silver coins were full 0 legal tender for all debts and the conversion of silver into were as free as into standard dollars and more than ten times as much silver silvar was coined into fractional coins in it the period named as into dollar pieces so that over 9 3 1 of full legal ten lender coins coin 8 were coined in the period named instead of iS as might be inferred from the Secre Secret irys statement t bement instead therefore of fifty times as much much silver being coined under the acts of 1878 and 1890 as was coined prior to acts only about five times ns as much has been coined while population has increased from to 65 G more than that tile the principal forel foreign ll collis coins were full legal lebal tel tender ider in tle the united states plates down low n to 1857 1957 or four years before tile war how many of these foreign coins circulated in this country is not known but elderly people remember well when the spanish milled dollar llie iho mexican dollar the dollar of af bolivia the spanish sli quarter and the english C shilling tir 0 common coins in this country there was free silver coinage therefore not only at our mints but at all the principal mints of the world and what difference did it make where or at what particular mint the coins was struck coina coinage L e was free and the coins were full legal tender all tile the silver in the world was potentially money as it t should be now nor did it make inake the sli slightest C latest difference in the world whether our coins at mostly gold and those of germany all silver or whether the coinage of each country was equally divided the important fact 1 I is that gold a and nd silver together all there was in the world was potentially money and the stock of the two metals went to make up the money supply of the world A J WAR KElt president american bimetallic league |