The nations of the earth which use concurrently gold and silver money. or which in other words have a bimetallic currency. according to Mr. Edward Atkinsons official report to the State Department in 1887. had in circulation in 1885 $2.463.002.000 of gold. and by the side of it and at parity with it $1.738.114.000 of silver. while the monometallic nations had in circulation $717.570.000 of gold and $128.520.000 of silver. British India and the Asiatic states which use silver alone are not included in the estimate. The free coinage of silver. with full money power. by a great and powerful nation like the United States. would impart additional value to silver coin throughout the world and produce a confidence in it which would cause all who have it to prize it more highly. In the face of facts like these. the fears of our Secretary of the Treasury. that.free coinage would make the United States the "dumping ground" of all the Europeari silver and expel all our gold from the country. would seem to be groundless.