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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...satisfactorily explained upon a single appeal to the person or persons who are or seem to be responsible for the grievances claimed. Whenever it seems necessary to make a remonstrance against some crying abuse or an appeal to public opinion on any subject, the columns of a daily paper are perhaps the natural medium. But it is absurd to bring before the public petty complaints that can be settled by simpler and more natural means...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/31/1896 | See Source »

...contribution in the February Atlantic which will attract perhaps the widest attention is an able paper entitled The Presidency and Mr. Reed. It is a thoughtful presentation of the requirements of the presidential office and a discussion of Mr. Reed's fitness for it. It is the first of a promised series upon the issues and some of the personalities of the forthcoming campaign...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Literary Notices. | 1/27/1896 | See Source »

...Sidney Everett contributes a paper on Unclaimed Estates. He gives minute and most interesting information in regard to the large European estates which are supposed to be awaiting American claimants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Literary Notices. | 1/27/1896 | See Source »

...perfectly evident to every one that our finances are in a bad state. The fundamental difficulty is that there is too much money in the United States, more than there would be of specie, if there were no paper substitutes. The familiar reasoning of economists is that, when there is a redundancy of the currency, prices rise, imports come in and gold flows out. The outflow of specie in 1893 and 1895 is generally looked on as a proof of the superabundance of currency. But this is not at all certain and economists have much to learn about such occurrences...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR TAUSSIG'S LECTURE. | 1/23/1896 | See Source »

...illustration of the hap-hazard legislation in the United States is that practically the whole mass of paper money is made to depend for convertibility upon gold. For the legal tender notes are redeemable in gold and the silver certificates, circulating side by side, are practically as good as legal tenders and the national bank notes are convertible into the latter. But the United States has never been able to find an effective method for maintaining the gold reserve. In fact, the trouble lies in the fact that the U. S. treasury performs two functions that should never be united...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PROFESSOR TAUSSIG'S LECTURE. | 1/23/1896 | See Source »

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