...rested, nor was it wanting in the Sherman silver act of 1890. It was manifestly the cornerstone of the doctrine of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, as its advocate has stated it in the past ; and it must be his reliance in the future. The protective...

...enormous bounty to the producers of competing agricultural staples in silver standard countries, which the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 would put an end to. 6. Even the grangers themselves do not heartily support the proposition ; that...

...even if it is driven out of circulation. Such was the fact during the Civil War. The practical effect of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to i therefore will be not bimetallism but silver monometallism, and this no one has the hardihood or temerity...

..."The Study of Politics." Chairman Cusick then declared the debate open, subject : Resolved, •' Ttiat the Free and Unlimited Coinage of Silver at the Ratio of 16 to 1 would be conducive to the prosperity of our country." J. McGinn, leader of the affirmative, G. Welsh,...

...this country. There has been a campaign of education going on in this country ever since the advocate of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 first promulgated his doctrines. The benefit to the people of this knowledge of public affairs is...

...by 1886 it was 20.8 to i; and in 1894 it was 32.6 to 1. 1 It is evident that if the opportunity for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 had still existed, there would have been another sudden change in the actual monetary standard. Gold...

...State administration of Colorado and the congressional work of John C. Bell and l.afe Pence ; demands the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 ; protests against the issuance of Government bonds in tunen of peace ; insists that the National...

...earners of the State are, perhaps without an exception, earnestly in favor of legislation establishing the •' free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1," only 310 of all reporting so state in reply to the above question, although they answered, with...

...independence, the Omaha platform of 1892, and especially to that party which declares: 1, For the immediate free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. 2. We oppose the issue of United States bonds under any pretext whatever. In the midst of a monetary...

...construction of the silver plank in a campaign largely turning upon this issue, the opposite view, in favor of the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, as embodied in the Hogg platform met with the overwhelming endorsement of the people of Texas, who...