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Preface To present an array of statistics and facts on the money question in an attractive way, is no easy task. All I have said has been done carefully and conscientiously. As far as it has been within reach I have uniformly consulted official records. When my country needed my services in her defence, I tried to do my duty earnestly and to the best of my ability as one of the million; as such of comrades who are yet living, but scattered all over the world, could testify. Now, as a plain citizen in this monetary emergency, I will try and do my duty, and I have expressed myself freely and fearlessly in defence of my country's honor and her prosperity which are now in great danger. I appeal to the people of our common country to rally around one of our old well-tried measures of value the silver dollar, just as we are now all glad to rally around our common flag. This is a contest, in which the poor man as well as the more prosperous is equally interested. Let the men who would be called upon to defend our country against a common enemy wake up, and see if we have not a momentous cause to join hands and hearts against the monetary wreckers and revolutionists of 1873; it matters not what may be their pretensions to financial wisdom or patriotism. JOHN A. GRIER, No. 633 N. 40th St., August 1, 1885. Philadelphia. Contents Preface "Knowledge is wealth, is power, is happiness," Business depression and the shrinkage in prices. Hard times Coined full legal standard money, always the measure of intrinsic value Coined money defined The amount of silver in our silver dollar never reduced a particle since the first one of 1794 The fineness of coin, and the system of alloy and weight The Trade Dollar The coin in the United States not excessive in amount Mono-metallism and bi-metallism defined The hostility of the National Banks to the silver coinage The silver dollar not now worth 100 cents in gold but always worth 100 cents in silver Gold is not a fixed measure of intrinsic value The meaning of the word value when applied to money Coined money the measure, but paper money the principal medium of exchange Our national debt, including the greenbacks, pledged to be paid in coin, not gold The effect of the greed of the world for gold A debt is a contract Coin obligations of the government payable in silver coin, at the option of the government Gold payments oppressive, as felt in our panic from 1873 to l879 Our National Debt Pensions Our National Debt as it would appear on wheels Professor Sumner as an anti-silver advocate Congress has put a forced legal valuation on gold An editor's mistake American Bankers' Association, 1884 The panic of 1873-79 The silver dollar always contains 100 cents The unit Custom duties payable in coin The demonetization of silver in 1873-74 a huge blunder The effect of the law of 1873 on the unit of value The clipped gold dollar The Philadelphia Press Ernest Seyd and Hon. Win. D. Kelley International money and forced valuation Foreign money not money with us but only metal Our silver coinage need not drive our gold coins out of circulation Our gold increasing, not decreasing The world's production of the precious metals The amount of gold and silver money in use Legal tenders Senator Sherman as a false pilot Silver bullion certificates based on gold valuation The pendulum as a measure The storage of silver dollars The gold that "nobody wants," The New York Banks and Clearing House and the silver certificates Paper money statistics Opposition of our National Banks to the Silver dollar and Certificates The business depression abroad International Monetary Conference of 1881 The Gresham Law Allison is our Great Magician Debts due England and Germany by other nations Practical Bi-metallism A table of the number owned, percentage of value to the cash in the U. S. Treasury, and cost of the silver in the dollar, from 1879 to 1885 End of Preview.
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