[Letter] May 5,[1893] [to F.H. Giddings]

May 5, [1893], n. p.

Dear Friend,
       I want to ask
one question, to
be answered with the
others at your leisure.
The discontinuance
of the coinage of silver
under the Sherman Act
is, for political reasons,
a nearly impossible and
very hazardous measure.
How would it do for
the Gov. to buy annually
8,000,000 half dollars
of full weight in bullion,
i.e. one and a half times
as heavy as a half dollar
now is - and use them
with gold, in redemption
of treasury notes? They
should be made legal
tender.

      Yours Very Truly,
           J. B. Clark