Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1896 — Still Coining Silver. [ARTICLE]

Still Coining Silver.

One of the false statements most frequently repeated by the free silveriies is that there have been no silver dollars coined since 1893. The truth is, however the coinage of silver dollars is now going <>n, right along. The act of 1893 repealed the compulsory purchasing clause of the so-called Sherman law, but it did not stop the coining of new dollars, out of the vast stock of silver already accumulated in the vaults of the treasury. In this connection we publish below a letter received in Rensselaer only last Monday, from the superintendent of the Philadiphia m int. Mr. Thoa, Thompson, having heard prominent silverites say that nd silver had been coined since 1893 wrote to the director of the Philadelphia mint, askingif silver was not now being coipqd there, and received the following answer on the official letter paper of the mint: The Mint of the United' States at Philadelphia, Superintendent’s Office. July 24, 1896. , Mr. Thomas Thompson, Rensselaer, Indiana. Sit*: In reply to your letter of 22nd instant .you are informed that there—were coined at this Mint this year from January Ist to July 18th, 4,590,412 standard silver dollars. Subsidiary silver $827,050.20. The Mints at San Francisco and New Orleans have also coined silver dollars this year. Very respectfully • Herman Kutz, Superintendent. The original,of this letter is in Mr. Thompson’s possession, and he will take pleasure in showing it to his free silver friends,, at any time.