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Evidently American and British hospitality are not so widely divergent after all. We have always been taught to think the British reserved and non-committal, and have rather prided ourselves on cur furious hospitality and careless assumption of familiarity--the traits with which Dickens drew Colonel Diver. The "man on the street" may still up-hold these traditions, but with the colleges it is apparently otherwise. The supposedly staid Cantabrigians are the ones who clamber over carriages, while with all its Americanism Harvard has never been known to cause its visitors any strain other than that upon the eardrums...
Best general references: McKinley's speech in N. Y. Tribune, Sept. 10, 1894; Reed's speech in N. Y. Tribune, Sept. 25, 1894; Cochrane's speech in Cong. Rec., 1893-94, p. 9943 (Aug. 13, 1894); Review of Reviews, X, 243-257 (Sept. 1894); Cyclopedic Rev. of Cur. Hist., IV, 276-288; H. C. Lodge, No. Am. Rev., Vol. 159, No. 3 (Sept. 1894); T. B. Reed...
Emmons, 1. e. Cur is, Brown...
...unconditional repeal of the present law is impracticable. a. The currency must be increased. 1 Contraction of bank issue. Table I. page 32 in Rep. of Compt. of Cur., 1889. Sec. of Treas. 1889. p. XC; Trussig Silver Ques. Quar. J. Econ, p. 19. 2. Increase in population and business, Census 1890. Forum Apr. 1890, p. 169. 2. Per capita circulation less than other countries. b. Silver can best supply the need of more currency. 1. Necessity of a metallic basis. 2. Diminution of gold supply. 3. U. S. the greatest silver supply; Sec. of Treas. 1889 LXXIX...
...complete reciprocit on the revenue would be unfair and disastrous. (a) Removal of all customs duties would be a greater concession on the part of the United States than on hat of South America-Report on Commerce. (b) The very best articles for revenue would be exempt from duty-Cur is, pp. 40, 48 etc. (c) A great source of revenue in the case of emergency would thus be cut off-Speech of Senator Morrill, February 3, 1875, Congressional Record...