Word: protecting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...declare that in the event of free coinage, silver bullion will pour in upon us from other countries. But it is not to be supposed that the possessors of silver plate and silver ornaments will melt them up for our benefit. Moreover, we ought to have free coinage to protect the silver interest. We protect other industries and should not make an exception to the detriment of the silver men. We need an increasing currency to meet the constantly increasing demands of the business of the country. Almost the entire annual yield of gold is used in the arts...
...gold out of every country that has at any time in its history adopted the less precious metal as a monetary standard and we have no right to assume that the contrary would be the case here. The class, moreover, that wants free coinage is so small that to protect it is to encourage a monopoly. The United States has made several attempts to induce other countries to enter into an agleement fixing the relative value of gold and silver, but these efforts have been entirely fruitless. For most of these nations have tried silver as a monetary standard...
...Scott, '90, consented to take the place of the absent speaker on the affirmative. He said that from Captain Kidd's day to the present silver had been the people's money. Miners on the whole do not make money, and therefore it cannot be objection-able to protect them. Mr. W. Wells, '90, closed the debate. In 1878, he said, the New York Clearing house refused to accept silver dollars except at their real value. A panic was only prevented by the passage of a law compelling national banks to receive the silver dollar at its face value...
...library authorities have decided to dispense with the imposition of fines for books not returned on time. A suspension of the privilege of the library for one month will be the penalty in the first instance, and if that is not effective, such penalty as may be necessary to protect the rights of waiting borrowers will be additionally imposed. This rule will go into effect on January...
...vaccinated since thirteen or four-teen they had better be so now. Typhoid fever is the contagious disease most likely to make headway in a body of students. The danger would be most likely to come from an impure water supply. It is utterly impossible for a man to protect himself as an individual from such danger but he can support the public authorities whose business it is to look out for the general health...