Word: falling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...spring football practice will begin Tuesday, March 30, at 3.30, on Soldiers Field. All men who intend to play next fall are urgently requested to come out. Clothes will be provided at the Locker Building for those who have none...
...argued in a clear and convincing manner and his speech was frequently interrupted by applause. His chief point rested on the political disquietment which would follow the adoption of a monometallic policy by this country. The Republican party elected their president and maintained the principles of sound money last fall with the votes of those who disbelieve in gold monometallism and favor a bimetallic league. If then the Republicans should repudiate their platform they would at once arouse the flames of sectional and class jealousy. As a result the country at the next election would fall into the hands...
There have been two great, undeniable evils under the gold standard-the destruction of the par of exchange between gold and silver-using countries and the fall of prices...
...prove it; we have his word no facts to prove it; we have his word for it, but that is all." If it is true it matters very little to us for our exports to silverusing countries amount to but a handful. In regard to the second claim, that falling prices are a result of the gold standard, he denied that they are an evil at all. He then devoted the rest of his speech to a careful analysis showing that this, the fundamental claim of the bimetallists is without foundation. Fall in prices has resulted merely from an immense...
...affirmative position. He said in part: We affirm that the United States should adopt the gold standard. This is our definite position and to it we would narrow the question. Bimetallism would cause a break in the par of exchange and would upset prices. It would not prevent the fall of prices. Prices fall because the proportional increase in production is greater than the increase of money. Under a double standard, money will increase proportionally as under a single standard. At best bimettalism would result in prices remaining the same or in falling prices...