People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1896 — When We Had Honest Money. [ARTICLE]

When We Had Honest Money.

From 1792 to 1878 all par legal tender coinage was honest—it was free coined. Every free coined dollar, silver or gold, was worth as much in bar as in coin. Since that time a large part of onr coinage has been deliberately dishonest, coined intentionally as “gun* money, ” at the demand of the bankers, ;to swindle the people. How and why are matters of history.—T. E. Willson.