People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1894 — A Strong Silver Plank. [ARTICLE]

A Strong Silver Plank.

Resolution adopted by the Missouri state democratic convention: ’’We declare it to be a duty enjoined upon congress by the constitution to coin both gold and silver money for the use of the people of the state ;that congress has no rightful power to refuse the coinage of either metal. We therefore demand the free bimetallic coinage of both gold and silver and the restoration of the bimetallic standard as it existed under our laws for over eighty years prior to the demonetization of the standard silver dollar in 1873. and should it become necessary, in order to maintain the two metals in circulation, to readjust the ratio, it should be determined whether gold has risen or silver has’ fallen, and whether there should be a change of the gold dollar or of the silver dollar, or of both, to the end that whatever ratio is adopted the rights of both creditor and debtor shall be preserved alike.having in view the demands of the people for an adequate circulating medium.”