Word: silver
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yesterday evening Professor Tausig addressed the Graduate Club on "Some Aspects of the Silver Question." After the lecture the speaker informally answered questions and mentioned a few incidents of his recent visit to Washington. As usual light refreshments were served...
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Professor F. W. Taussig spoke informally last night to the members of the Finance Club on the silver question, describing in a very interesting manner the present status of the free coinage controversy. He spoke first of the visit of the committee of Boston business men to Washington. In the House Finance Committee before which the Boston men appeared the free coinage advocates were very aggressive. There was a general feeling that if the bill could be brought before the House it would be stampeded through without difficulty; consequently the silver men on the finance committee were constantly trying...
Professor Taussig closed his talk with a brief review of the origin of the present free coinage bill. It comes not from the silver states but from the general depression and hard times throughout the West and the feeling among the farmers that in some way this bill will remove the pressure. The real difficulty in the West is not a scarcity of money but the tendency to too rapid development; too great increase in production results, of course, in prices being forced down. The silver agitation is purely an inflation movement and must be followed by all the consequences...
...DOLE.HARVARD FINANCE CLUB.- Professor F. W. Taussig will speak on "The Silver Situation," in University 4, this evening...