Author: Darwin Rush James
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Category : Silver question
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Silver Not a Local Issue
Author: Darwin Rush James
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Category : Silver question
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Category : Silver question
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Pages : 36
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Silver Not a Local Issue
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ISBN: 9781331090199
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Excerpt from Silver Not a Local Issue: Speech of Hon. Darwin R. James of New York, in the House of Representatives, March 20, 1886 On final analysis, the monetary question is a question of prices, a matter of buying and selling; and so it is, as I have said, peculiarly a business question. Then, again, Mr. Speaker, I ask the attention of this House to what I have to say because the business men of the country are, after all, a very numerous and influential class. They Deed awakening; they need it in my district, they need it in your district. Gentlemen, I am afraid we shall find that they need it in all of our districts. I wish to be entirely frank about this matter. I am afraid that the business men of the country have not been doing their duty to the country. They have been buying and selling and have let high politics alone, even when high politics affected them most seriously. In this they have failed in their duty to themselves as well as to the country. I have no doubt that if the business men had had the power to deal with the silver question the team of St ate would not have been stalled in the mire as it is now, and It is largely their fault that it is so, for they knew what the end would be. They should have spoken out from one end of the country to the other; they should have insisted that their advice be followed. If I speak, therefore, of business men in my district, of business men in your district, business men in all of our districts needing to be awakened, I do it for the purpose of urging you, gentlemen of the House, to talk this matter over with them as you see them, and to elicit expressions of opinion from them upon this great and far-reaching subject. I think this comparison of views will do good. I want to hear from the sovereign people on this question of money legislation. To handle this question wisely and to the best interests of all, we need the advice of the men of business in our constituencies. If my own voice could reach beyond this floor I would gladly see to it that the business men throughout the country should at least hear one loud call to join their forces for a righteous handling of this great question. If we could accomplish this, enlightenment and instruction would follow a discussion so general amid a people so sensible and so practical as ours. I believe we should be practically unanimous after hearing from them in voting a measure which would close the current chapters of the history of compulsory coinage. What that measure should be I am here to suggest. I have given study to the facts which make the theories upon this issue, and have measured the measures proposed with the same spirit of determination to be right which applied to my own business while in India, where I handled the rupee, or in New York, where I sold the products of the Hast. The result may be summed up In these words: the so-called demonetization of silver has been from the start a great business blunder. I do not wish to be misunderstood by either the extreme gold men on one side or the extreme silver men on the other, in my use of this term. I speak of the demonetization of silver. They may presumably think I mean the anti-silver law passed by Congress In 1873, and the revision of the statutes in which the silver dollar was spirited away. I do not. Perhaps they think I ought to mean it if I speak of demonetization. I do not think so. I say that I am right and that they are wrong, for it is more than a question of words, Mr. Speaker; it is a question of ideas. In the first place, who demonetized silver? My friends here talk as if the United States had done it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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ISBN: 9781331090199
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Excerpt from Silver Not a Local Issue: Speech of Hon. Darwin R. James of New York, in the House of Representatives, March 20, 1886 On final analysis, the monetary question is a question of prices, a matter of buying and selling; and so it is, as I have said, peculiarly a business question. Then, again, Mr. Speaker, I ask the attention of this House to what I have to say because the business men of the country are, after all, a very numerous and influential class. They Deed awakening; they need it in my district, they need it in your district. Gentlemen, I am afraid we shall find that they need it in all of our districts. I wish to be entirely frank about this matter. I am afraid that the business men of the country have not been doing their duty to the country. They have been buying and selling and have let high politics alone, even when high politics affected them most seriously. In this they have failed in their duty to themselves as well as to the country. I have no doubt that if the business men had had the power to deal with the silver question the team of St ate would not have been stalled in the mire as it is now, and It is largely their fault that it is so, for they knew what the end would be. They should have spoken out from one end of the country to the other; they should have insisted that their advice be followed. If I speak, therefore, of business men in my district, of business men in your district, business men in all of our districts needing to be awakened, I do it for the purpose of urging you, gentlemen of the House, to talk this matter over with them as you see them, and to elicit expressions of opinion from them upon this great and far-reaching subject. I think this comparison of views will do good. I want to hear from the sovereign people on this question of money legislation. To handle this question wisely and to the best interests of all, we need the advice of the men of business in our constituencies. If my own voice could reach beyond this floor I would gladly see to it that the business men throughout the country should at least hear one loud call to join their forces for a righteous handling of this great question. If we could accomplish this, enlightenment and instruction would follow a discussion so general amid a people so sensible and so practical as ours. I believe we should be practically unanimous after hearing from them in voting a measure which would close the current chapters of the history of compulsory coinage. What that measure should be I am here to suggest. I have given study to the facts which make the theories upon this issue, and have measured the measures proposed with the same spirit of determination to be right which applied to my own business while in India, where I handled the rupee, or in New York, where I sold the products of the Hast. The result may be summed up In these words: the so-called demonetization of silver has been from the start a great business blunder. I do not wish to be misunderstood by either the extreme gold men on one side or the extreme silver men on the other, in my use of this term. I speak of the demonetization of silver. They may presumably think I mean the anti-silver law passed by Congress In 1873, and the revision of the statutes in which the silver dollar was spirited away. I do not. Perhaps they think I ought to mean it if I speak of demonetization. I do not think so. I say that I am right and that they are wrong, for it is more than a question of words, Mr. Speaker; it is a question of ideas. In the first place, who demonetized silver? My friends here talk as if the United States had done it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
Silver Not a Local Issue. Speech of Hon. Darwin R. James, of New York, in the House . .
Author: Darwin Rush James
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ISBN: 9781347474822
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Pages : 26
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Speeches on the Silver Question
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Category : Silver question
Languages : en
Pages : 668
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Pages : 668
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Of Money, the Instrument of Association
Author: Henry Carey Baird
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Languages : en
Pages : 542
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Languages : en
Pages : 542
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SILVER NOT A LOCAL ISSUE SPEEC
Author: Darwin Rush 1834 James
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ISBN: 9781373053824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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ISBN: 9781373053824
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Finding List
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Category : Library catalogs
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Pages : 674
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Pages : 674
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Report of the Librarian and Annual Supplement to the General Catalogue
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Languages : en
Pages : 1206
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Report
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Languages : en
Pages : 206
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Pages : 206
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Report of the Librarian of the State Library of Massachusetts
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Category : Libraries
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Pages : 680
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