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...amount of money could not increase with the growth of population and business. - (x) Supply of gold is insufficient: Report of U. S. Monetary Commission of 1877, p. 15; Pol. Sci. Q. VIII, 211. - (2) Contraction of amount of money means lower prices: Mill, Pol. Econ., book III, ch. 8. - (b) Would injure the debtor class. - (1) They would have to pay in an appreciated currency: MacVane, Pol. Econ., 123. - (c) Would injure the farmers. - (1) Many of them are in debt. - (2) Price of their commodities lowered: Taussig, Silver Situation, 112-115. - (d) Would place dangerous power in hands...
...silver as money is most desirable. - (a) Silver and gold the only suitable money metals: Mill, bk. III, ch. 8. - (b) Gold is insufficient: see above I, (a) 1. - (c) Silver in relation to commodities a more stable standard than gold: Amer. Jour. Soc. Sci. XXXII, 27; Sen. Stewart in Cong. Record, XXV, App. 158-159 - (d) Silver and gold together a non-fluctuating standard: McCulloch, p. 21. - (e) Silver will eventually become standard money metal of the world. - (1) Exhaustion of gold mines. - (2) Increased use of gold in the arts: Suess, 100-101. - (f) Present suspicion of silver...
...Bibliography of Municipal Government in the proceedings of the National Conference for Good City Government, 1894. (Note especially the status of Philadelphia in Allinson and Penrase's Philadelphia, (Johns Hopkins Studies, Extra Volume III) and Bryce, American Commonwealth (3d ed.), II, ch 89); F. H. Hodder, Brief Bibliography of Municipal Government...
...Control of the Canal by the United States is desirable: Gen. ref. - (a) Neutrality of canal better guaranteed by a single strong nation than by a joint protectorate. - (b) U. S. is its natural protector. - (1) By its situation. - (2) By the Monroe Doctrine: Rodrigues, ch...
...Under private ownership and management public interest is made subservient to private interest. - (a) Railroads carried on for private ends alone. - (1) Paralleling: R. T. Ely, Problems of Today. - (2) Speculation: Hadley, Railroad Transportation, ch. 3. - (b) Neglectful of public welfare. - (1) Poor service. - (2) Accidents. - (3) Discriminations: Hudson. The Railways and the Republic, ch. 2, 3, 4. - (4) "Skinning the Road." - (c) Source of corruption in politics: - T.V. Powderly, Arena...