The Natural Law of MoneyPutnam, 1894 - 168 pages |
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... adopting a commodity into use as money , man begins to lose sight of its fluctuations in value ; these fluctuations appear to him to be altogether in the commodities that he buys ; he looks upon money as stationary , and regards it as a ...
... adopting a commodity into use as money , man begins to lose sight of its fluctuations in value ; these fluctuations appear to him to be altogether in the commodities that he buys ; he looks upon money as stationary , and regards it as a ...
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... adopt excellent devices for the protection of this new money , but it could not prevent the sense of insecurity which pertains to a money of defective character . Should we adopt the Farmers ' Alliance plan , it would not be the first ...
... adopt excellent devices for the protection of this new money , but it could not prevent the sense of insecurity which pertains to a money of defective character . Should we adopt the Farmers ' Alliance plan , it would not be the first ...
Page 12
... adopt the single silver standard , it would surely be at a disadvantage in its commercial transactions with gold - standard nations . Silver is not only more cumbersome than gold , but has always been more fluctuating - of late years ...
... adopt the single silver standard , it would surely be at a disadvantage in its commercial transactions with gold - standard nations . Silver is not only more cumbersome than gold , but has always been more fluctuating - of late years ...
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... adopted by rulers to raise money was to abstract from the coinage a portion of its precious metal , and to substitute therefor a cheaper metal ; when resistance was made to receiving such money , its circulation was enforced by mandate ...
... adopted by rulers to raise money was to abstract from the coinage a portion of its precious metal , and to substitute therefor a cheaper metal ; when resistance was made to receiving such money , its circulation was enforced by mandate ...
Page 32
... adopt bi - metallism , and which has more or less influenced her monetary legislation down to the present time . After nearly a century's practical ex- perience with bi - metallism , England abandoned it for 32 The Natural Law of Money.
... adopt bi - metallism , and which has more or less influenced her monetary legislation down to the present time . After nearly a century's practical ex- perience with bi - metallism , England abandoned it for 32 The Natural Law of Money.
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Page 87 - Common consent has consigned it to rest with that kind of regard, which the long service of inanimate things insensibly obtains from mankind. Every stone in the bridge, that has carried us over, seems to have a claim upon our esteem. But this was a corner-stone, and its usefulness cannot be forgotten.
Page 130 - States are expressly prohibited from making anything but gold and silver a tender in payment of debts...
Page 135 - The laws of a country ought to be the standard of equity, and calculated to impress on the minds of the people the moral as well as the legal obligations of reciprocal justice. But tender laws, of any kind, operate to destroy morality, and to dissolve, by the pretence of law, what ought to be the principle of law to support, reciprocal justice between man and man...
Page 86 - I am old enough to have seen a paper currency annihilated at a blow in Massachusetts, in 1750, and a silver currency taking its place immediately, and supplying every necessity and every convenience.
Page 105 - The foregoing is a table from the report of the comptroller of the currency for the year 1903. The national banks, which had 67 per cent of the capital in 1882, had 63.9 per cent in 1892, 52.4 per cent in 1902, and 50.43 in 1903.
Page 35 - Clearly there is no need of making coin a legal tender at any specified weight. If governments would confine their legislation to fixing by enactment the fineness of the precious metal and the number of grains that shall constitute each piece of a given name, they may safely leave the maintenance of coinage. . .and the value of the pieces to be regulated [to] individual interest and action
Page 93 - Something like a middle way finally produced an acquiescing, rather than an affirmative, vote. A charter of incorporation was granted, with a recommendation to the States to give it all the necessary validity within their respective jurisdictions.
Page 124 - The mere announcement of our intention to put our money on a sound metallic basis had brought capital to us in such abundance that the resumption was not only made easy, but the normal rate of interest was reduced, . . . This remarkable reduction ... is explainable only on the ground of a large influx of foreign capital.
Page 90 - There has been no time in the history of our country when the predatory interests have so unblushingly sought legislation for their special benefits.