Excerpt from Papers and Addresses Before the First National Silver Convention: Held at St. Louis, November 26, 27 and 28, 1889 That, considering the contraction caused by the surrender of national bank notes during the past three years, and the vast sums that must be collected by the cancellation of Government bonds during the next three years, the necessity of restoring silver is as manifest as is the justice of such a policy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.