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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Etymologically, Bimetallism simply means two metals in some mutaual relation to each other. In addition to this, however, it has come to be understood that the two metals concerned are gold and silver; and that this mutual relation is in, or through their use as money. Within these limits bimetallism may mean more or less. It means either the system of national bimetallism with free coinage of both metals at the legal ratio; or else, and this more properly, the system of international bimetallism, with a free coinage of the metals at a ratio common to the contracting nations...
...following events, all handicap, will be open to all amateurs: 50 yards dash, 50 yards hurdle, 600 yards run, one mile run, putting 16 pound shot, pole vault, running high jump. Other events may be arranged later. The first two men in each event will receive silver cups and the companies which win the relay race and the tug-of-war will have trophies presented to them...
...side of him are group pictures of the Yale and Princeton teams, and above and below are smaller pictures of the other members of the Yale eleven. Just below Captain Thorne's picture is engrossed the score of the Yale-Princeton game. The frame is of oak with oxidized silver trimmings...
...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...
...surplus revenue in 1893 and 1895 the solution of their difficulties would have been simple enough; for, after redeeming legal tender notes they could have put them aside. This was done in 1884-5, when the secretary of the treasury, having a large surplus, held back the silver dollars...