Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1893 — ANOTHER “PLAN.” [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER “PLAN.”

Governor Waite Again Makes a Bld for Notoriety. A miners’convention was held at Salida, Col., Wednesday. Gov. Waite delivered an address of 9,C00 words. The situation in Colorado, he said, had improved somewhat, but not over 4,000 out of the 45,C0) miners thrown out of employment had yet resumed work. “The right of Congress to coin money is conceded, and that right is exclusive so longas the right is exercised,” the Governor said. This right was given to the general government by the States as a trust, this trust callingfor continuous coinage. In default of the exercise of the coinage right the trust reverts to the States or the people. By the passing of the enactment putting an end to the free coinage of silver the genera) government defaulted in its trust. Competent legal authority holds that the right of the people to the free coinage of silver has never been taken away. The extra session of the Legislature should take action to compel the adjudication by the United States Supreme Court of this question. “The right of a State to make gold and silver coin a tender in payment of ail debts collectable within that State can not bo denied,” the Governor asserted. “The remedy.” he said, “Is for each State to enact that the silver dollars of the United States and our sister republics in North and South America, containing not less than 37i* grains fine silver, shall be a legal tender by tale or at 100 cents each for all debts public and private, collects ble within that State.”