People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — Silver Constitutional Money. [ARTICLE]

Silver Constitutional Money.

Senator Allen, of Nebraska, in his speech in the senate, declared that silver is, and ever has been, the money of the constitution, and it cannot now be abandoned by congress without a flagrant and inexcusable refusal on our part to, in good faith, enforce, in the interest of the nation at large, a power expressly enjoined upon us for the general welfare. ” The senator expressed his utter astonishment that there should be any question as to the constitutional place of silver as a money metal “in view of the language and purpose of the constitution, the history of the time when it was framed and adopted by our ancestors, the treatment of the question by congress in our coinage legislation, the voice of the judiciary when speaking on the subject, and the treatment of the matter by the various political parties in their respective platforms.”