But in China bar silver is not favored. The Mexicansilver dollar. with the cactus. egle. and snake st.imped upon it. is thoroughly understood all over that great kingdom. and it has been demonstrated that those people are conversant with its valueI am sp aking now of its purity as silverand they are ready to t._ke the Mexican dollar when they decline to take silver in any other form because of their fear that it is not suffic0iently fine. We attempted. us is known. to make a dollar heavier even than the Mexic in dollar. because we believed by making it a trille heavier we could secure the Asiatic tradethat is. the trade of China and of the English Straits Settlements. Ceylon. and that setion. We utterely failed.