People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1896 — The Ancient Unchangeable Dollar. [ARTICLE]

The Ancient Unchangeable Dollar.

A correspondent asks us why we give so marked a preference to the silver dollar of 371% grains of pure silver, and reject the proposed “Christiancy dollar,” or the “Blaine dollar,” or the trade dollar? We shall not undertake now to repeat or restate all of them. But the first reason is that the dollar of 371% grains pure silver has been the monetary standard or unit es value in this country from 1792 until 1873, a period of eighty-one years. It is the ancient, unchangeable dollar of this country.—Chicago Tribune, February 11, 1878.