Show IN GOD WE VE TRUST TRUSTON ON FEDERAL mm COIN OIN History Leads Up to Roosevelt's Roosevel's Roosevelt's Roose Roose- velt's vels vel's Order to Cut CutI It I Out Out REPORTS ARE REPRODUCED Old Timers Feared We Would Be Regarded as Heathen Nation New ew York Yom Nov No 17 how How did tId time the motu motto In him God Wo 0 Trust con come comae o to lo bo be 10 placed on coins coins of or time the United This question has lies been asked many may lines limes since President Roosevelt cl has ordered it I stricken sti from non our coins and ad time the church people have hac made such a a vigorous protest against Its Is removal That question Is hI fully rul answered by b a report of ur tire the tl director dir of or tho ho United States Stales mint mini The Time report o of the director of or the mint is as follows follow's From tho time records o of the time department It appears appeals that the tire first suggestion of o time the th recognition of or tho time Delt Deity on ou tho thu coins or of the United States was contain contained ed Cd d In iii a n letter leller addressed to tho time secretary of or time the tream time the Hon lion S. S P. P Chase by Rev Hc M. M r. r R. R a minister of or the time gospel under date dale ate of November Xo i 13 which was as follows url Pa Pa Nov Nor o. o 13 Dear Sir You Sir You are arc about to lo submit your our annual report to no t congress respect respect- respecting ing in time thc affairs aral's of or time the national finances One Omie fact touch touching Ins our currency ha liars has hitherto been seriously overlooked o I mean nican the time recognition of or the thc Almighty God Goil In iii sonic sonio 0 form ferns on our coins You probably arc are a n Christian What It Ie our republic were now 10 shattered be beyond beyond be- be yond Would not the antiquarian of or succeeding centuries rigidly rightly reason from our past paRt that wo were u. u a heathen naton What hat 1 I propose pro pro- pose is that that instead of or time the so goddess ess o of I liberty we shall have hare next inside the en stuns a si ring In Inscribed with wih the the words Perpetual UnIon Union within this ring ort time tho Alf i 1 Eye i crown crowned with wih sv halo beneath iR- iR eyo iii the rl s American i n nI I hag flag and amid the words God Oot Liberty Libert Lw Law This woul would snake make a 3 beautiful coin coimi to which no p possible s citizen could object This his would woul relieve us from time the IgnomIny Iny ny oC ot This would place pIneo us openly opEnly under the he divine 11 protection ve we have o personal personal- iy y claimed d. From J my heart I have felt el 1 our national shame In irs disowning Oo God Cod as aa not time the least of ot our present national disasters To o you ou I address Itress a subject that must b be agitated M. M 1 II it 1 SO Minister of or orho tho ho ho gospel gospO L iTo ro lion Hon S S. S 1 P. P Chase secretary of or orho tim tho lon m. m 1 ur o lt ot Soyen e cr 20 1 J I cr tA ot t tT tho 1 J I t l t mint S c Treasury carmont Xo Nov ov 2 20 Dot Sir Ir No nation can calm bo be 10 strong 1 except in Jim tho th of or G L. L or OJ aufu e except t cel in s ill-s iJ d defense The trust 0 of- of our of-our our people In God should be declared on ou out our national coins Vou rou win wil cause causa n it device to tu bo ho 10 pro pro- without unnecessary ur delay dehl with witha wll a D motto o expressing expressing- In the time fewest arid and tersest t l words wor-da possible this national natonI roe rec rc- rc o Yours out truly trul S 5 P. P James Pollock Esq director of time tho tl mimi mInt Hint mm I Philadelphia Ill I'll I Pa It I was wn found that the time net act of JanuaryS January Januar IS S liT a j. j prescribed time the mottoes mottoes' arid and lc thirst that should bo lie placed upon the of time the United St States tiles so 80 lat lug UX be tie dono doime without legislation in December Dec cOIO 1563 the lime director of or tho mint lint submitted to lo the time secretary of th tho thU tn I for or approval nl designs for tor or OlO one two am amid anil cent three pieces on which it was sas proposed that tome One of or the time following mottoes should appear Our country Our God God GOI Out Our Trust The secretary of tho time treasury Inn ina in ina a n letter addressed to the thc director of the leter mint under date o of December 9 9 1863 uses the time following language I 1 approve c your our mottoes only suggesting that thai on Oi that with the tine Washington ob obverse ob- ob verse rio the time should begin with tho thin orl word Our so 50 as us to read Our God Got and ant Our Country Countr and that with wih time the shield It should be le changed Int no so o as s n to read InGot In God Wo Yo Trust Got An Aim act was passed April AprI 22 2 1864 changing tire the composition o of time the one one- ont ont- cent piece and amid authorizing the colna coinage u of time the two-cent two ant piece with devices de which were suero to 10 be fc fixed by Ly the Limo director of the mint with wih time the approval al of or the secretary lu of the treasury and it is upon time the two cent h bronze piece that time the In Ii God Cod Codo Wo o 0 Trust first ap- ap Time Tho act of March 2 3 1365 1265 provided t that hut In iii addition to the tue device on the th gold gohl and or or II coins o of tho timo Unshed United States Stales 11 it I should lm bo lawful for the time di- di tt- tt re tor of ot the time mint with wIh the approval of the Ihl secretary of or tho Limo treasury to place time the motto In iii God V. V Wo Yo Trust on omi such coins as shail Ihal admit of the in inscription itt itt- thereon Under this act time tho motto was placed upon the time double eagle cuSic moto eagle cable anti and unit half hai eagle cIe and ant also alfo upon the time dollar loller dolar half har and quarter tol- tol dol dol- lars hare In tho time latter later part mait o of 1865 The Time coinage act acl o of February I 12 1873 1573 provided pro I that the time secretary of or time Iho treasury et fl may cruise cause the time moto In God Got Wo We c Trust to lo bo be inscribed d on such coins as shall admit of or such moto motto |