Word: markets
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is little space left for farming, all the fields being cultivated by market gardeners. There are, however, some reservations like Franklin Park and the Fells, where no building or cultivation is allowed...
...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 of money syndicates to influence market prices, etc. - (e) Need of more currency would lead to wild schemes for paper currency. - (f) Adoption of gold standard injured Germany: Hugh McCulloch, lecture delivered at Harvard...
...alone might safely coin silver at a proper ratio: A. S. Stokes, Joint Metallism; W. C. Oates in Cong, Record XXV, App., 152-155. - (a) The proper ratio would be that which would most nearly coincide with market ratio. - (b) This ratio is ascertainable. - (c) There would be no tendency for silver to drive out gold. - (1) A silver dollar would contain a gold dollar's worth of silver. - (d) Our present silver money could be gradually recoined at new ratio; meanwhile government's fiat would maintain it at parity with gold as it does...
...they have ever been before. Arbitration is coming to be used more and more to settle disputes between nations. And even if a war should arise the addition of from three to five thousand men would make little or no difference. The position of this country as the best market for the products of European nations also lessened the chance of war; for no one quarrels with his best customer...
...offer this Christmas to Harvard men a fine mat surface photograph, 8x10 size, mounted on the best panel in the market, price $3.00, duplicates $1.00 each...