People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1894 — A Silver Centennial. [ARTICLE]

A Silver Centennial.

. The centennial anniversary of the beginning of the coinage of silver in this country will soon be reached. It was on October 15, 1794, that the Philadelphia mint turned out 1.785 of these dollars, each one of 371 M grains of pure silver, with the words -‘dollar unit” milled on the edges. The silver dollar was then, what the gold dollar is now, the standard of value. And it remained so until the final demonetization in 1873. The hundredth recurrence of this anniversary will doubtless be used by the friends of free silver coinage to make a demonstration favorable to the metal. And such a historic occasion, it must be admitted, even by those who are opposed to restoring silver to the exalted place it held during more than three-quarters of our national existence, should not be passed over without proper observance. Silver is and must always remain a large part of our currency, and as such the date of its introduction into our monetary system must remain an important one in our history.—SL Louis Republic.