Word: silver
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...question at issue, saying that the only question was as to the relative merits of the gold and the bimetallic standards. Any ratio which the negative could offer would fail. If the ratio adopted were 16 to 1, this would be an attempt to double the value of silver by government fiat. Whatever the ratio, business men would prefer gold to silver, because the former is certainly stable. Business domands certainty as to the future. How could it be shown that some political troubles would not entirely shatter that league, and bring about the worst commercial crisis ever knownn Another...
...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 of the free silverites,- exactly what it was most desired to prevent-and we should have then free silver at a ratio...
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...
...monometallism was a product of evolution were in the wrong. That if they declared that what is virtually a gold standard here in the United States has been beneficial, they were mistaken. And that to definitively adopt a single gold standard would be to bring about the evils of silver monometallism. The rebuttals were full of snap and vigor and were by far the most interesting parts of the evening. During the speeches the different methods of presentations of the two sets of men was noticeable. While the contrast was not marked it was nevertheless noticeable that the Harvard speakers...
...silver. They lack the advantages of bimetallism...