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The Coinage Act of 1873 stopped the minting of silver coins.
In my view, the industrialists feared that coinage of silver would increase the money supply and thereby lower interest rates to the benefit of the debtors, such as farmers, and the detriment of the creditors, such as the industrialists.
The Democratic Party In campaigning for The Election of 1896, William Jennings Bryan supported silver, rather than the gold standard, which William McKinley supported. McKinley won the election.
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The free coinage of silver would have to increase the amount of money in circulation.
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farmers
the coinage of "free silver"
Populist
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the coinage of "free silver"
U.S. mints would allow unlimited conversion of silver at a rate lower than that of gold.
Isaac Roberts has written: 'Wages, fixed incomes and the free coinage of silver' -- subject(s): Silver question, Wages
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This was a Central America Policy issue in the late 19th century about using "free coinage" of silver instead of the gold standard. It was a response to inflation, but had it been done it would have resulted in a greater inflation.