Money, Silver, and FinanceAmerican News Company, 1896 - 242 頁 |
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... importance . He has tried to answer The Silver Ques- tion by arguments based both upon the truths of financial science and upon the principles which underlie the operation of what is called business . And , admitting shortcomings , he ...
... importance . He has tried to answer The Silver Ques- tion by arguments based both upon the truths of financial science and upon the principles which underlie the operation of what is called business . And , admitting shortcomings , he ...
第 12 頁
... importance for good and evil has been and is the financial con- trivance which we know as paper money ; properly , a receipt for real money and a promise to pay it back on demand . When one person saw fit to trust another with money or ...
... importance for good and evil has been and is the financial con- trivance which we know as paper money ; properly , a receipt for real money and a promise to pay it back on demand . When one person saw fit to trust another with money or ...
第 15 頁
... important that A , in the East , trading with B , in the West , should agree to give or take the kind of money that B has in mind ; or , for example , that C , in the South , trading with D , in the North , should not be compelled to ...
... important that A , in the East , trading with B , in the West , should agree to give or take the kind of money that B has in mind ; or , for example , that C , in the South , trading with D , in the North , should not be compelled to ...
第 16 頁
... important to the commercial world than paper money are the other finan cial contrivances called checks , drafts , notes , bills of exchange , etc .; for , besides having no appreciable weight , they can be made safe in transmission . So ...
... important to the commercial world than paper money are the other finan cial contrivances called checks , drafts , notes , bills of exchange , etc .; for , besides having no appreciable weight , they can be made safe in transmission . So ...
第 20 頁
... important to us , at least as an argument . No party will ever be sufficiently powerful to force Americans to carry silver instead of paper . But if silver cannot be made to circulate , may we not use it as a base for paper money ? Why ...
... important to us , at least as an argument . No party will ever be sufficiently powerful to force Americans to carry silver instead of paper . But if silver cannot be made to circulate , may we not use it as a base for paper money ? Why ...
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第 224 頁 - The Republican party is unreservedly for sound money. It caused the enactment of the law providing for the resumption of specie payments in 1879; since then every dollar has been as good as gold. We are unalterably opposed to every measure calculated to debase our currency or impair the credit of our country. We are, therefore, opposed to the free coinage of silver except by international agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and until such...
第 226 頁 - We demand the free and unlimited coinage of both silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation.
第 215 頁 - ... the established policy of the United States to maintain the two metals on a parity with each other upon the present legal ratio, or such ratio as may be provided by law.
第 226 頁 - We are unalterably opposed to monometallism which has locked fast the prosperity of an industrial people in the paralysis of hard times. Gold monometallism is a British policy, and its adoption has brought other nations into financial servitude to London.
第 225 頁 - Constitution names silver and gold together as the money metals of the United States, and that the first coinage law passed by Congress under the Constitution made the silver dollar the monetary unit and admitted gold to free coinage at a ratio based upon the silver-dollar unit.
第 225 頁 - We declare that the act of 1873 demonetizing silver without the knowledge or approval of the American people has resulted in the appreciation of gold and a corresponding fall in the prices of commodities produced by the people; a heavy Increase In the burden of taxation and of all debts, public and private ; the enrichment of the money-lending class at home and abroad; the prostration of industry and impoverishment of the people.
第 226 頁 - ... industrial people in the paralysis of hard times. Gold monometallism Is a British policy and its adoption has brought other nations into financial servitude to London. It Is not only un-American but antiAmerican, and it can be fastened on the United States only by the stifling of that spirit and love of liberty which proclaimed our political independence In 1776 and won It in the war of the revolution.
第 224 頁 - We are therefore opposed to the free coinage of silver except by international agreement with the leading commercial nations of the world, which we pledge ourselves to promote, and until such agreement can be obtained, the existing gold standard must be preserved. All our silver and paper currency must be maintained at parity with gold, and we favor all measures designed to maintain inviolably the obligationsof the United States, and all our money, whether coin or paper, at the present standard,...
第 225 頁 - WE DECLARE THAT THE ACT OF 1873, DEMONETIZING SILVER, WITHOUT THE KNOWLEDGE OR APPROVAL OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, HAS RESULTED IN THE APPRECIATION OF GOLD AND A CORRESPONDING FALL IN THE PRICES OF COMMODITIES PRODUCED BY THE PEOPLE, A HEAVY INCREASE IN THE BURDEN OF TAXATION AND OF...
第 31 頁 - The price of our surplus wheat determines tho price of the whole wheat-crop of the United States. So that the monetary dislocation has already cost our farming population, who number nearly one-half the total population of the United States, an almost incomputable sum, a loss of millions upon millions of dollars every year, a loss which they will continue to suffer so long as Congress delays to stop the silver purchase and by that act to compel an international redress of the monetary dislocation.