People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1894 — Something for Silver. [ARTICLE]

Something for Silver.

Senator Voorhees’ bill is not a free coinage measure and does not apply a metallic standard, but it is equal in merit to most of the compromises proposed in the fight over the Sherman act. If it becomes a statute it will do as much for silver, pending a final settlement of the relation of the metals in our currency, as any of them would actually have done. It will coin all the seigniorage silver, replace all other small notes with silver certificates and extend the use of the metal in bona fide circulation beyond what it was under the Sherman or any other law upon the subject. Judged by the speeches of Stewart and Wolcott during the extra session debate, the bill is highly satisfactory. They can have little to say against it It is not bimetallism, but they did not stand for bimetallism. —St Louis Republic.