Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1896 — Why Not Ten Cent Dollars? [ARTICLE]

Why Not Ten Cent Dollars?

We all know that this country can sustain a limited amount of silver currency at a ratio of 10 to 1 because it is already doing it. But if it can sustain an unlimited amount coined at the same ratio, why can it not as well sustain it at a ratio of 3 v to 1 ? In other words, why strike,from our 10 cent piece the inscription "one diruo” and make it "one dollar?” If this be practicable—aud it seems to me that the one is as practicable as the other—is not the proposition of unlimited 10 to 1 an extravagant and useless waste of the most valuable commodity which tho world has ever known? It appears that there are greater possibilities open to the advocates of tho white metal than even thgy have as yet conceived.

T F. RICE.