This is really all the argument which the chairman pro-
duced in order to show that we ought to adopt bimetalism.
He did not even condescend to tell us what meaning
he attaches to the word bimetalism, or give us the least
intimation what is the measure which will avert the evils
which he apprehends. His speech resolves itself into a
mere lamentation over the scarcity of gold, and leaves us
absolutely in the dark as to a remedy, except that it is to
be found in bimetalism— a word which neither he nor any
of those that followed him have taken the trouble to explain.
