Show BONUS BONDS PAYABLE IN W COIN several salt bait lake city subscribers to the NEWS affix their signatures to the following whig request dated september 2 will you kindly state through the columns of your valuable paper whether the bonds of the united states are payable in gold or in coin if any are made payable in gold when were they issued and how much all the outstanding bonds of the united states sire are made payable in cot col none done by toe the terms thereof are maue payable in gold au an attempt was made at the time lime of the last issue to lotain an authorization for a gold issue but congress refused and the bonds ot of that time were made as all others sold by toe the government and as required by law jaw payable in colo be cause of the effort to make gold bonus bonds many people got the idea that such were actually issued but they were not the statement has baa been made frequently in speeches that the government was in honor bonor bound to pay its bonds to la rold gold and this misled many people to the me view that most of the boud were by their express terms payable in the yellow metal but the latter is not the case the basis for claiming to la the speeches referred to that hat cay 1 be so pal pai i was that gold was waa the coin of their purchase money but the she government govern beut can aan pay io in either coin it if it ono chooses oses and we the fear that free silver will mean hallbe payment is to be made in silver coin is one of the bases tot tor the cry of aaion not that any actual repudiation Is intended or thought of the united states has baa no outstanding gold bonds all are payable in coln coin |