Speech #540019126

By adding our 70.000.000 to the 900.000.000 he thinks there would be no question about silver being restored to a parity at the old ratio of 16 to 1. notwithstanding the fact that the other 350.000.000 commercial people of the world refused to join with us in the effort. that what 900.000.000 fail to do 970.000.000 would be sure to accomplish. This is placing an estimate upon this country in commercial matters unwarranted by any facts in our experience. Adding one more nation to the 900.000.000 Asiatics. Mexicans. and South Americans could not bridge over the tremendous chasm of 47 per cent that now exists between the freecoinage dollar and the proposed parity. As a nation deeply interested in the production of silver. and desirous of bimetallism in its fullest sense. we should carry our part of the load. if it is to be called a load.