Germany, 23.

Giffen, Dr. Robert, 73, 74, 85, 87, 89, 90, 91, 180, 181.
Gladstone, W. E., his frank statement, 69, 210.

Goddess Argentum, 45, 53.

Gold more durable than silver, 131.

world's stock, 108, 109.

statistics, 105-110.

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

per capita stocks, 108, 110.

probability of increase, 55.

cost of production, 88.

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needed for reserve and change, 90.

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

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standards, 5.

output and prices, or any other metal, 91.

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

cannot always be got from abroad, 68.
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Government bonds, xx, 173, 188, 189, 203, -16.

paper-money should be only certificates, 20.
partnership, 216.

ratio, 7.

Great Britain, 69.

Greenbacks, 193, 217, 232.

Greer, Rev. David H., facing title-page.

"Gresham Law" known to Ŏresme and Copernicus, 176.
Gresham, Sir Thomas, 154, 155, 176, 177.

Hadley, Professor, 174.

Hamilton's report, 85, 223.

Hankinson, 155.

Hard times, 4.

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

Jefferson on money unit and coinage, 85, 223.

Jenks, Prof. J. W., 209.

John, "The Good," xiv.

Joint-cerealism, 70.

Joint legal-tender certificates, 6-122, 201.
Joint-metallic money, how formed, 121.
Joint-metallism a merit system, 145.

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Klaproth, 92.

vs. bimetallism and monometallism, 121, 203.

Leading position of the United States, 141.

Legal tender, only gold and silver, 80.

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joint certificates, 6, 122, 201.
opinion, 67.

ratio, 21.

Legislation, 81, 82.

Letters on joint-metallism, 3, 17, 37, 53, 65.

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to Springfield Republican, 218.

Limit of currency expansion, 8, 9, 18.

Lincoln, President, 55.

Locke, xii, 94, 128, 155, 158, 164, 172, 175.
Locking up gold, 68.

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London Statist, 73, 91.

Lord Liverpool, 155.

Louisbourg, 192.

Macleod, Henry Dunning, viii, ix, 155, 159, 161, 162, 165,

166, 175, 178, 179, 181, 187.

Market values, 5, 21.

Massachusetts Tabular Standard, 86.

McKinley, 93, 223, 228.

Measure of value, 8.

Medium, 72.

Merit system, 145.

Mézarey, 152.

Mill, John Stuart, viii, 130, 155, 178.

Mint, real function of, 20.

Director of, 56, 93.

charges, 7, 19, 121, 123, 201.

Monetary conference, 30, 86.

experiments, 191.

Monete Cudende Ratio, 151.

Money, a certain potentiality, 20.

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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, 191.

Monometallic money, how formed, 121.

Monometallist creed, 176.

Napoleon's wars, 132.

Nation, The, 179.

Natural resources of the United States, 141, 191

Near the unseen sources, xvii.

New bimetallism, III.

Newfoundland, 188.

Newport, 193.

New silver discussion, 13.

Newton, viii, 155, 164, 172.

New York Times, 229.

Nineteenth Century Magazine, 175, 176, 178.

Objections answered, 197.

Official salaries, the attraction increased, 146.
Officials prefer monometallism, 136.

Old writers compared with new, xii.

Opposed to 16 to 1 idea, 217, 231.

Oresme, ix, xii, 151, 152, 154, 155, 157, 164, 168, 177, 178.
Originality, opposite title-page, III.

Polo, Marco, 92.

Pope Urban V., 153.

Popular ignorance, xix.

Potatoes and point, 68.

Potentiality, 20.

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

Pound weight of silver, 166.

Practical economics, 85.

Preciousness imparted to gold, 145.

Preface to First Edition, xxi.

message, vii, 205, 206.
veto, 67.

Prices the expression of a relation, 91.

"Printer's Devil," 165.

Product of gold and silver, 88, 105, 106, 107, 111, 112, 131.

Production in quantities sufficient for currency, 8.

Proposed coinage plank, 218.

Protection, 146.

Railways, 66.

Ratio, would become settled, 18, 118, 123, 127, 198, 201.
would not change frequently, 6, 23, 127.

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economic, 7, 198.

would become a dangerous political issue, unless based
on market values, 135.

Recoinage, how avoided, 134.

Recoining subsidiary silver, 123.

Reforms dependent on monetary reform, 146.

Relative values, 88.

Remonetization, 21.

Republican platform, 82, 93, 206.

Reserve, gold, 67.

Government gold, 182.

Results to come from continued decline in silver, 140.

Revival of silver question, 13, 40.

Ricardo, 94, 178.

Rivarol, viii.

Rochussen, 23.

Rogers, Prof. Thorold, 210.

Roman Empire, cause of its fall, 130.

Roscher, Guillaume, xiii, xvii, 155, 178.

Royal commission on gold and silver, 38, 94, 143.

Safety in specie money only, 217.

Salem, 193.

Saratoga address, 213.

Saratoga debate, 207.

Say, viii, 172, 178.

Science of money, 142, 151.

Scotch doctor, 232.

Second letter on joint-metallism, 17.

Secretary of the Treasury, vii, 146, 171, 191, 204.

Seigniorage, 7, 121, 123, 201.

Selling gold short, 4.

Séquin's Histoire des Evêques Comtes de Lisieux, 152.
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, 166.

Shaving, 233.

Shekel, 222.