A Fair Proposition

The silverites profess to believe thafr the inere making of 371 % grains of silver into coins called a dollar will increase the commercial value of the silver, nearly 50 per cent. If this is trae, thero is certainly no rreecl of such coins being made a legal tender, since they will be readily accepted at their face value. When money is worth its face, It needs no authority of law to make it pass current. If it is not worth wbat it pretends to be, it should receive no aid from laws compelling creditors to accept it. lu either case it is not the government's business to make people take money that they do not want. Are the free coinage agitators willing to show their faith in their professions by agreeing to favor a law for the unlimited coinage of silver dollars which Bhitü. not be legal tender? If so. there ■wiii be no objection to such a coinage system on the part of those who believe ia a sound currency based on the gold sr-andard.