...people without the intervention of any banking or other corporation. That the United States should have the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. That modern inventions have been beneficial to the laboring man. That the present wage slavery is worse...

...ardency, and as a member of the McKinley and Hobart glee club he sang derisive songs about greenbacks and the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. I understand the anxious bias which omitted to say any good of paper money and which saw in history...

...subject, "Should the United States immediately and without waiting for the action of other nations restore the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1?" Bryan spoke first for l1/^ hours, followed by Bush, who lectured for 1 hour and 45 minutes; then Bryan...

...immigration restriction. The Populists in 1892 also endorsed a plank in their party platform calling for the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one. To those who saw the free-silver movement as a transitory issue, the flocking to its...

...retirement of the greenbacks, declared for tariff for revenue only, favored bimetallism and demanded free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, with equal legal tender power. The Populist convention met in Paducah, July 20. It opposed the plan...

...the Congress (1890-94) he seized the leadership of the "Free Silver" movement by a speech advocating the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. He was defeated for the Senate in 1894 and in subsequent electoral contests, but remained an influential...