Remonetizing silver is its restoration as a meas-
ure of value, so that the silver dollar will be a dollar
because it contains 412.5 grains of silver, not as now
solely because of the stamp upon it calling for 25.8
grains of gold. If all the money in use in the United
States were made of silver it would not help our con-
dition so long as the measure of value, the money of
ultimate redemption, is gold only. If the govern-
ment w^ould issue only paper money redeemable on
demand in gold, and collect the silver and sell it in
the market as bullion, the people would much
sooner understand that silver has been destroyed
as money.
The only method by which a change of financial
policy can be effected is by voting for a change and
then following the representatives until a change is
effected. This is the lawful method and the only
lawful method. When the voice of the people is
lawfully expressed and that voice is not obeyed, and
the very forms of government are made oppressive.
170 THESE HARD TIMES.
then our fathers declared the right of revolution.
An act of injustice to the debtor like the doubling
of the standard of values and then enforcing the
collection by the arm of the law, is oppression that
would have made the blood of "the boys of '76" tingle.
