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

The Silver Dollar Ably Defended.

What is a whole dollar? Who says that a part of a dollar shall be a whole dollar or wants it to be? Four hundred and twelve and a half grains of silver is a whole dollar, and was so fixed by law in 1792. It never was anything else, never can be anything else under the law. Whether at present that weight of unlegal tender silver is worth as much as a gold dollar of 25 8-10 grains in London, no one cares. Four hundred and twelve and a half grains of silver coined and made legal tender is just as much a dollar as the gold dollar. —Chicago Tribune, Jan. 19, 1878.