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The correspondence ventilated shows that it should not be issued, even though the coin's now in use is in itself reasonably good, unless the Government is assured of it. Experience has repeatedly shown that legislation on monetary matters, at variance with the general wish for reform or with the wants or convenience of the community, is undesirable and would only cause grave inconvenience.
The popular remedy appears to be a proclamation declaring that from a certain date clean coins be accepted. The wish is that Laws which do not work are mischievous. My hands however feel sure that the Secretary will agree that no such proclamation should be issued, and it needs no instances to prove that the question being little more than a tuburi...