Speech #520037062

I mean the hoarding of bullion in our own Treasury and the issue to our own people of coin certificates. the representative of the dollars found in the Treasury of the United States. But with that money circulating. every dollar of coin certificate is as good as a dollar of gold. or a dollar of silver. and the whole power of the Government of the United States is brought to bear to maintain what the Senator says in the act of 1890 is necessary to be done. and he solemnly pledges shall be done tc maintain the parity of the metals with each other. How much better is that than the locking up of one of the metals in the Treasury of the United States and having it unrepresented by anything in circulation. or deporting it to China to get rid of it. or striking it entirely out of the category of coin metals and making of it a mere commodity? If we can enrich our country by the storage in our Treasury and the coinage of the gold and silver bullion that we can collect from our mines. I say we ought to do it. and let a representative of every dollar thus stored go into the community so as to become the active and efficient agent of each dollar in bullion and coin in the Treasury to work among the people in their daily occupations.