George Eliot Leighton

1835 – 1901

• Gold and silver
• On the necessity of suspending the coinage of silver
• On the necessity of suspending the coinage of silver, read before the Commercial Club of St. Louis, January 16, 1886
• The defect in our monetary system and the danger to national prosperity due to it
• The need for comprehensive currency reform
• The state bank in the south and west
• Why we oppose free coinage
• Why we oppose the free coinage of silver