bimetallist
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bimetallists
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The reasoning of the preceding paragraphs bears also on the second part of the bimetallist indictment—that, namely, as to the depressing effects of falling prices on industrial enterprise.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips
“Yes, yes—oh, rather,” I assented, as one dizzily accepts the propositions of a bimetallist; “and you don’t know of anything else——?”
From Humours of Irish Life by Various
Senator Sherman is an international bimetallist and a pronounced opponent of independent silver coinage.
From American Eloquence, Volume 4 Studies In American Political History (1897) by Alexander Johnston
That is, gold is the standard; but we are a bimetallist, and we will write189 a paper on “Bimetallism Simplified” showing how we can create a mono-bimetallic standard.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various
Mr. Leonard H. Courtney, one of the monometallist members of that commission who signed the report, has since become an avowed bimetallist, as have many other prominent Englishmen.
From If Not Silver, What? by John W. Bookwalter
The proposition of the bimetallists rests on only time-honored doctrines of political economy as justified by the experience of mankind.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 by Various
His system will be laughed to scorn by all the goldites proper, and it is certainly rejected as spurious, impossible, and absurd by all genuine bimetallists.
From The Arena Volume 18, No. 93, August, 1897 by Various
It has always been declared by the bimetallists that the successor of gold monometallism will be paper, and Germany is expected to go upon a paper rather than a silver basis.
From The Audacious War by Clarence W. (Clarence Walker) Barron
In truth, both the bimetallists and their opponents seem to confuse the question when they speak of the appreciation of gold as causing lower prices.
From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Chester Arthur Phillips
That is the contention that the bimetallists make.
From Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, On the Free Coinage of Silver; in the United States Senate, May 12 and 13, 1890 by John P. (John Percival) Jones
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