Editing Bland–Allison Act (section)

==Free-silver movement==
[[Image:william allison.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Portrait of Senator Allison which hangs in the [[United States Capitol|U.S. Capitol]].]]
The [[free silver|free-silver movement]] of the late 19th century advocated the unlimited coinage of silver, which would have resulted in [[inflation | inflationary]] [[monetary policy]]. In 1873, Congress had removed the use of silver dollar from the list of authorized coins under the [[Coinage Act of 1873]] (referred to by opponents as 'the Crime of '73'"). Although the Bland–Allison Act of 1878 directed the Treasury to purchase silver from the "best-western" miners, President [[Grover Cleveland]] repealed the act in 1893.<ref name=Agger1918>{{cite journal |last1=Agger |first1=Eugene E. |title=Our Large Change: The Denominations of the Currency |journal=The Quarterly Journal of Economics |date=1918 |volume=32 |issue=2 |pages=257–277 |doi=10.2307/1885428 |jstor=1885428 }}</ref> Advocates of free silver included owners of silver mines in the West, farmers who believed an inclusion of silver would increase crop prices, and debtors who believed it would alleviate their debts. Although the [[Free silver | free silver movement]] ended, the debate of [[inflation]] and [[monetary policy]] continues to this day.