letter of acceptance, 82.

message, 79.

Coinage, 19, 92, 93.

Commercial ratio of gold and silver, 110.
Commission, the royal, 94.

Commodities steady, money changes, 85.

Conference, monetary, 30, 86.

Congress, act of, 84,

Constitution of the United States, 80.

Constitutional position of gold and silver, 24, 80.

Contracts, future, 5, 38, 54, 118.

Conventions, national, 81, 82.

Countries, money used in, 108, 109.

Courtney, Leonard, 103.

Cow in India, 48.

Credits, 8, 68.

Criticisms, 17, 66.

Currency, must always be convertible, 70.

proper limit of expansion, 8, 24.

gold an insufficient basis, 4, 8, 21, 30, 56–58, 66.

security as to value of, 18, 24, 39.

question in politics, 20, 38, 62.

Dangers of the situation, 66, 68.

Debate, envenomed, 20.

Debtor, class, 31.

Debts, 4.

Debts, national, 66.

Decline in silver, 7, 21, 30, 38.

values, 4, 21, 30, 38.

Delawarean, the, 113.

Democratic platform, 81.

Demonetization, 23.

Director of the Mint, 92, 93.

Discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, 67.

Discussion necessary, 40, 41, 65.

Economic ratio, 7.

Equal parts of gold and silver, 5, 6, 57, 72.

Equal power of every dollar, 81, 82.

Establishment of the mint, 85.

a money unit, 85.

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report of royal commission, 94-103.
First letter on joint-metallism, 3.

Flying paper, 92.

Fourth letter on joint-metallism, 53.
Frewen, Moreton, 86.

Future contracts, 5, 38, 54, 117.

Germany, 23.

Giffen, Dr. Robert, 73, 74, 85, 87, 89, 90, 91.
Gladstone, W. E., his frank statement, 69.

Goddess Argentum, 45, 53.

Gold, world's stock, 108, 109.

statistics, 105-110.

production, 57, 86-88, 106, 107.

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probability of increase, 55.

standards, 4.

per capita stocks, 108, 110.

cost of production, 88.

and silver, half each, 5, 6, 57, 72.

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output and prices, or any other metal, 91.
needed for reserve and change, 90.

supply of, 30, 86, 87, 90, 91.

cannot always be got from abroad, 68.

Golden calf, 47.

Government paper-money should be only certificates, 20.

Hamilton's report, 85

Hard times, 4.

Harris, W. T., U. S. Commissioner of Education, facing
title-page.

Harrison, ex-President, 82.

Hides as clothing, 50.

Legislation, 81, 82.

Letters on joint-metallism, 3, 17, 37, 53, 65.
Limit of currency expansion, 8, 9, 18.
Lincoln, President, 55.

paper, preferred, 70.

half gold, half silver, 3, 21, 39, 57.

result of large abstraction of, 90.

based upon coins, 18, 71.

government paper, should be only certificates of
coin, 20, 24.

Potter, Rt. Rev. H. C., opposite title-page.

Practical economics, 85.

Present silver coins, 18.

President, letter, 82.

Prices the expression of a relation, 91.

Product of gold and silver, 88.

Production in quantities sufficient for currency, 8.

Railways, 66.

Relative values, 88.

Remonetization, 21.

Revival of silver question, 13, 40.

Republican platform, 82.

Reserve, gold, 67.

Royal commission on gold and silver, 38, 94.

Second letter on joint-metallism, 17.

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