| Show SILVER COINAGE I 1 had bad not intended untended to write you again on the silver question until I 1 read your comments on my letter which you printed a few days ago nor do I 1 intend to have much to say now I 1 have not denied the right nor the power of congress under the constitution to adopt either a single or IL a double standard and in the main I 1 coincide with your position on that point I 1 infer from what the NEWS says on the subject that it does not sympathize with my idea but rather objects to IQ it that our money ought not to be so regulated as to be made available as money in other countries and asks what possible objection can there be to that one objection I 1 would urge is that the money as an a measure of values which our government la Is bound I 1 think to provide for the necessities of internal trade and commerce would better eube erve the purpose designed by being kept at home way Js to it that all the business interests of this co country i became so greatly excited and alarmed when large nhip shipments ments of gold are maje ma ie from our shores would not the businessmen business men in the united states have greater cause for alarm if silver dollars as well as an gold were to be withdrawn from cir in this country such might and perhaps would be the case came if american silver dollars were lecog 1 dazed in foreign countries as money j if other governments bad made overtures to us to join oin them in such ch conference I 1 would have no objection to consent as a matter of policy and good fee feeling lini what I 1 do object to however is that the united states which for a hundred years has arranged its financial matters without consulting other countries and having durl g all these years grown in wealth iopu lation Importance and now humbly bow the knee to foreign borelan governments and beg them to agree with us upon plan in relation to currency regarding what the NEWS says I 1 have proved and which it seeks to turn against me I 1 desire to say that while I 1 proved that congress did cco win coin silver and regulate its value JJ so far as ag half do dollars liars quarter dollars and ten cent pieces are concerned I 1 slab also by the same means proved that such coins were not made legal tender money and I 1 proved further that Cou congress gress had also through indirection refused to coin and regulate the value of the silver dollar of our fathers As to greenbacks green backs I 1 like the nims NEWS do not care to reopen re ne open that que question tion U h is closed for the present but when if ft ever again the necessity shall arise for the direct issue by the united states of such paper as money I 1 shall it alive advocate it money we must have if gold and silver prove inadequate to supply the demand for currency then a recourse must be had to other means and I 1 know of no more sound or safe security than the paper issued by the greatest government in the world H D JOHNSON P 8 since writing the foregoing I 1 see from a dispatch that enough responses to the invitation of president harrlson harrison have baen received to render it tolerably certain that a conference will be held whether a satisfactory agre agreement emen t will be entered into is not so well assured however and in no m opinion is doubtful |
