People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1894 — Facts as to the Present Ratio. [ARTICLE]

Facts as to the Present Ratio.

Facts which cannot be controverted explode the theory of those who would change the present ratio of 10 to 1 to 18 or 20 to 1. The truth is there is no sincerity in the proposition. It is merely a pretext for opposition to the coinage of silver. With $500,000,000 now coined at 16 to 1, what would be the condition should we coin others on the same footing at 20 to 17? The free coinage of our silver is what is demanded, and the financial question will be discussed and unsettled until that object shall have been attained. The charge that its advocates are repudiationists and cranks and demagogues and favor fiat money and inflation will not deter us from insisting upon what we know to be right and just and for the best interests of the country. More than one hundred years ago we declared our political independence of Great Britain. Now let us declare our financial independence, and in the fight on that issue the odds will be in our favor. —Judge Henry.