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...III. The retirement of the greenbacks would be injurious.- (a) Panic would follow contraction.- (1) Contraction of currency means a lowering of prices: Mill. Pol. Econ. Bk. III, ch. 8.- (2) Debtors would be injured.- (x) They would have to pay in an appreciated currency: Macvane, Pol. Econ. 123.- (3) Farmers would be injured.- (x) Many of them in debt.- (y) Prices of their commodities would be lowered.- (4) Business would stagnate.- (b) If legal tenders were redeemed at an early date, there would be substituted an interest bearing debt for a non-interest bearing debt.- (1) In past...
Lecture. Western Campaigns of the Civil War. III. Vicksburg. (Stereopticon Illustrations.) John Fiske, LL. D. Sanders Theatre...
...III. Tuesday, December 17. Vicksburg...
...III. Tuesday, December 17. Vicksburg...
...III. Government ownership of quasipublic works has failed in practice.- (a) State ownership has proved unwise.- (1) Railways in Europe: Hadley, pp. 217, 228. 235.- (2) Telegraph system in Eng and: Pol. Sci. Quar., Dec. '88, p. 590 ff.- (b) Municipal ownership has proved undesirable.- (1) Gas-lighting.- (x) English Cities: Board of Trade Reports to Parl., 189.- (y) Philadelphia: Bryce, Am. Com., 367 ff.; Speech of P. A. Collins before Mass. Leg., p. 12.- (2) Electric Lighting and Power: M. J. Francisco, in Engin. Mag., v. 725.- (3) Waterworks: Boston, Albany, Philadelphia: Conkling, pp. 21, 100; Burrage...