INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO THE FIFTH EDITION. In this revised edition the statistical tables in the Appendix have been brought down to July 1, 1896, and additional tables, etc., have been introduced. The Appendix occupies pages 77 to 118 as in previous editions. Pages 207 to 233, containing Extracts from Saratoga Free-Coinage Debate, Proposed Currency Plank, Letters to the Springfield Republican, and After the Election, What? are added new matter. NEW YORK, November, 1896. How Joint-Metallism would Work and Result. Unscientific Bimetallism with Empirical Ratio. Why Wheat, Cotton, and Wages Decline with David A. Wells and Edward Atkinson Answered. · I2I Nicole Oresme, the Fourteenth-Century Political Economist, Author of Traictie de la Première Nicholas Copernicus, the Astronomer and Re- former of Coinage, Author of Monete Cudende Wolowski's Admirable Annotated Edition of These Great Treatises. Paris, 1864. Views of Bacon, Locke, Newton, etc., etc. |