...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...

...Prigl-'ertlal offlc1"." WASHINGTON. REPUBLICAN. May 14, 1800. — The platform had thle money plank: "Resolved, That we favor the maintenance of the present...free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 1<V to Ь Vie are, however, favorable to an international agreement looking to the general use of both...

...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...

...routine of business having been transacted the following question was then debated, Resolved, " That the Free and Unlimited Coinage of Silver at the Ratio of 16 to J Would be Beneficial to Our Country. " Messrs. CJ Donigan and M. Lavy upheld the affirmative while...

...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 clearly...

...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...

...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 scarcely...

...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 Government...

...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...

...to leave the mints as they are, open to the free and unlimited coinage of gold, and throw them open to the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 1 to 16 as full primary—redemption—money. [Applause.] And why the ratio of 1 to 16? Because that...