Speech of Hon. T.G. Skinner.
[Washington, D.C.]: n.p., [1890]. 15 pp. 8vo. Removed. First edition. A good+ copy, a few soil spots and pinpricks on front wrapper, large chip to inner top corner of last leaf, not affecting text, mail fold, lacking wrappers. OCLC does not record a copy of this spech by Skinner, only his 1886 speech. Item #35902
Concerns the silver question. Thomas Gregory Skinner (1842-1907) was the Representative from North Carolina serving three terms, his last, ending the year of this speech in 1890. He had advocated the free coinage of silver in 1886 and again in 1890: "When the forty-second congress by act of March 12, 1873, suspended the coinage of the silver dollar, and therby in effect demonetized silver, and reduced the United States to a monometallic gold standard of value, it committed a serious blunder, if blunder is the correct word to use - crime would perhaps be the better term."
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