People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1894 — Blaine on Silver. [ARTICLE]

Blaine on Silver.

I believe gold and silver coin to be the money of the constitution, which the great organic law recognized as quite independent of its own existence. No power was conferred on congress to declare either metal should not be money; congress has, therefore, in my judgment, no power to" demonetize either (silver or gold) any more than to demonetize both. If, therefore, silver has been demonetized, I am in favor of remonetizing it. If its coinage lias been prohibited, I am in favor of hav ing it resumed.—James U. iTaine. in 1878.