Word: capita
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Journal of Education publishes the following figures, which show the amount per capita expended by various nations for military and educational purposes respectively...
...objections to annual elections, viz.: expense and trouble, are without weight. (A) Expense is very slight. (1) Only four cents per capita spent by the state on its an ual election. (G) Bradford's speech of Oct. 13, 1896). (B) Trouble is wisely taken (E. E. Hale's Speech at Faneuil Hall, Oct. 23, 1896) Government by the people is founded upon trouble for the people. (a) Educational influence is great. (x) Keeps state issues before the public. (y) "Political judgment grows by exercise." Bridgeman...
...taxation; (b) it has protected certain manufacturers; (c) it has given bonnties to sugar trust (Lloyd's Wealth vs. Commonweath, 9-30). (3) Single gold standard; (a) it has caused fall of prices of commodities; (x) caused contraction of currency; (m) thrown silver out of use (n) though per capita circulation is as great as in 1873, this does not prove much; (1) business has increased more rapidly than population; (b) it has caused fall in the price of silver, (1) this depends mainly on supply and demand. (Mill Book 3, ch. ix.) (2) Demonetization has decreased demand...
...money. (a) Before 1873 only six million dollars had been coined (Report, Director of the Mint, 1895). (2) The demonetization of silver has not caused a scareity of money. (a) The total circulation has increased since 1873-1873, $774,000,000; 1895, $2,217,000,000.- (b) The per capita circulation has increased-1873, $18.04; 1895, $22.96;- (Report as above.) (c) Gold has increased-1873, $25,000,000; 1895, around $450,000,000;- (Comptroller Eckels) (3) There has been no undue appreciation of gold since 1873. (a) Prices have fallen because of other reasons. (x) In manufactured goods because...
...Principles of Populist Party are unsound on currency: Platform in World's Almanac, 1893, p. 83.- (a) They demand free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1.- (b) Demand immediate increase of circulating medium to $50 per capita.- (c) Abolition of national banks.- (d) Adoption of the Sub-Treasury scheme and the Land Loan scheme of the Farmer's Alliance; World's Almanac...