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Hill For Free Silver Coinage

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
January
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Nliw YORK, Jan. 17.- A letter from Senator David B. HUÍ, of New York, is publihlvU here todfty which will attruct considerable ntt-ontion a twarmg apon thv oampaign of isíx. lu It he declares that tho freo ooinage of silver us weü as gold "must bc held out as tho goal which tho country must ultimately reach." Tho letter wjisf written nearly two yo;irs ngo just prior tu the meniorable extra session of 198, iu Clark Huwell, editor of tho Atlanta Constitution, who gives it to the publio with ths consent of Senator HUL The letter baars date of July 13, 1898. Hill beging by suying that in the iirst and only interview he had with President Cleveland he urged the oaUlng of tho extra session of congress in April of thnt year instead of September, the president's preforenco. The senator fiwore tho unconditional repoal of tho Sherman law, but an acceptable substituto for it should be provided. "I am," he says, "in favor of bimetalism as the issue of the future." Ho is for free ooinage under un international agreeraent, if possible, and if not possible then for independent bimetallisin. He says: "I do not believo in the Bl&ud bill or any other mensure whlch guáranteos anything less tlian onrestrloted ooinage for gold and silver aüke as pledged in the Democratie platform." Hill expresses himself as not in favor of the federal tax on state bank issues, but fears the cousequeuues of a repeal of the tax, as he does "not like such wild cat currency and never did." He fears such an experiment wlll not be a succes, and advises that this issue be not mixed up with the legal tender currency question.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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