People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — TWENTY YEARS AGO [ARTICLE]

TWENTY YEARS AGO

Ad Ohio Republican Sliver Resolution Adopted by the Legislature. Sound Money: Some of our readers who are constantly met with the assertion that the republican party of Ohio were always an honest money party and opposed to the free coinage of and reinstatement of silvtir as money, are advised to call their opponents’ attention to a resolution adopted April 24, 1877, by the republican legislature of Ohio, when Gen. C. H. Grosvenor, present congressman from Ohio, was speaker of the house, and Hon. H. W. Curtiss, of Chagrin Falls, was president of the senate. The following is the resolution which may be found on pages 537 and 538, Ohio laws of 1877: JOINT RESOLUTION. RELATIVE TO THE RESTORATION OF THE SILVER DOLLAR TO ITS FORMER RANK AS LAWFUL MONEY: RESOLVED, BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF OHIO, THAT COMMON HONESTY TO THE TAXPAYERS, THE LETTER AND SPIRIT OF THE CONTRACT UNDER WHICH THE GREAT BODY OF ITS INDEBTEDNESS WAS ASSUMED BY THE UNITED STATES AND TRUE FINANCIAL WISDOM, EACH AND ALL DEMAND THE RESTORATION OF THE SILVER DOLLAR TO ITS FORMER RANK AS LAWFUL MONEY. SIGNED BY C. H. GROSVENOR, SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, AND H. W. CURTISS, PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE. ADOPTED APRIL 24, 1877.