I am not stating that figure of my own knowledge. because I have no personal knowledge of the amount. but I do know. I have been so told by people whose information is better than my own. that in India alone there is such a store of surplus silver that we would be compelled to pay to them hundreds of millions of dollars. at this dollar and a quarter rate. for that silver which they would immediately send to us. How in the world the depression in America can be remedied. how in the world the distress in America can be relieved. how the unemployed in America can be aided by our buying from Asiatic countries millions of ounces of silver that we do not need. I am utterly incapable of understanding. To try to peg the price of silver at $1.25. which is what this amendment would do. would be just as ineffective in helping any other industry than that of silver mining as was the attempt to peg the price of wheat. which failed so miserably. or to peg the price of cotton. which failed so miserably.