Free coinage of iron 16 to 1 debate stance
Alexander P. Hull of Atlanta declares support for a radical pig iron coinage policy at 16 to 1 with gold, arguing it would raise prices and flood the economy with money. He cites critics from the Atlanta Constitution and Bryan and Crisp, compares iron to silver standards, and predicts broad prosperity and debt relief if adopted.
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Alexander P. Hull
Atlanta
Crisp
Bryan
Stewart
Jones
Atlanta Constitution
United States
Stewart, Jones and Bryan
Hull
Wall Street
Bond Street
Lycurgus
China
Jos
Coin's Financial School
Gold Standard Enduring, Windmuller Explains U S Policy
Louis Windmuller of New York discusses why the United States will likely maintain gold as the standard of value. He notes rising silver demand and gold production, argues voters favor sound money, and says parties must push for a single gold standard to reassure foreign investors.
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Chine and Moston
Louis Windmuller
New York
Berlin
Germany
United States
Mexico
China
Windmuller
Easy Lessons on Gold Eagles and Silver Loons
A compact allegory contrasts gold Eagles with silver Loons through a working man choosing between cash in hand and goods. It questions free coinage, showing sixteens valued as one Eagle would devalue money and leave the man poorer, warning against cheap currency schemes.
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Coln
Five Silver Standard Claims From Patterson Speech
The excerpt presents five assertions: no free coinage nation is silver based, no gold standard nation omits silver, no silver nation uses gold with silver, silver nations have less money per capita than the United States, and silver nations pay laborers less fairly, attributed to Hon. Josiah Patterson in a Memphis speech.
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United States
Josiah Patterson
Memphis
Baltimore Board of Trade backs gold standard declaration
The Baltimore Board of Trade on May 4 adopted a declaration urging maintenance of the gold standard. It faults Congress for delaying financial reform, warns against currency depreciation, and calls for a sound money convention in Chicago or St Louis to shape national policy ahead of upcoming conventions. It emphasizes Maryland’s role in currency advocacy and the need for international agreement and stable credit for industry and farmers.
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Baltimore Board of Trade
Board of Trade of
Baltimore
Congress
Baltimore City
United States
Chicago
St. Louis
Washington
Maryland
More Creditors Than Debtors In Credit Union Math
The Teachers' Co operative Building and Loan Association of New York City has 615 members with 75 debtors. Extrapolating to 6,000 associations and 1,800,000 shareholders suggests 220,000 debtors and 1,580,000 creditors, or over seven creditors per debtor. The piece argues free coinage at 16 to 1 would not help debtors and questions the premise that creditors are bloated. It contends debtors are often wealthier than creditors and warns against canceling debts to aid a single borrower.
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Teachers’ Co-operative Building and Loan Association of
New York City
The Populists of North Carolina on Wheels
A humorous Augusta Daily Tribune note cites North Carolina Populists running a "newspaper on wheels" with wheels in their heads. The piece mocks currency debates, comparing wheel-driven arguments to free coinage and debt repudiation theories.
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North Carolina
Augusta
Daily Tribune
Real issue of campaign centers on currency debate
The Philadelphia Ledger argues the real issue of the campaign is currency and urges the Republican convention to nominate no man who does not openly support the gold standard of monetary value.
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The
Philadelphia Ledger
Wall Street Shylocks Debate Free Coinage Costs
Byron W. Holt argues against free coinage by labeling creditors as Shylocks including bank depositors, pensioners, life insurers, building societies, and stockholders. He claims debtors vastly outnumbered by creditors and warns pension and insurance holders would lose under 50 cent dollars, predicting widespread mortgage foreclosures if honest money were adopted.
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Soveslius
Wall Street
Woods
Prairies
Siver
Hitte
Byron W. Holt
Free silver coinage debate echoes in currency parity stance
Speech excerpts declare free silver coinage a dead issue and affirm that every dollar of the currency must be maintained on parity with gold. The phrase emphasizes commitment to gold standard and opposition to bimetallic inflationary policy in a broader monetary reform context.
Ureat Bargain Sets High Prices Across All Goods
Local store advertises a drastic price increase by fifty percent across all dry goods clothing hats boots groceries and hardware claiming the dearest store in town. The bold note emphasizes higher prices than ever before.
Special Lot Hats and Cheap Goods Sale Ends Soon
A marked up stock purchased by STEWART, BLAND, ALTGELD, TELLER & CO offers deep discounts. Hats drop from $3.50 to $7, sugar cut from 6 to 12 cents, salts at 5 cents off, and all other items see price hikes reversed. Limited two week sale. orders invited from currency-minded buyers in Peffer ville, Calamity County.
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Stewart, Bland, Altgeld, Teller & CO
Free silver rhetoric from Whidden Graham pamphlet line
Whidden Graham argues for free coinage of silver at 16 to 1, claiming it would raise wages, widen money supply, and align with silver using nations. He asserts gold dollars are scarce, debuts a dual standard, and predicts gold withdrawal if free coinage passes, concluding prosperity hinges on cheap money advocates in Congress.
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Mexico
China
India
Congress
Whidden Graham
Why European capital withdraws from US business
Hambleton and Co of Baltimore explain in their May 30 weekly letter why capital leaves US ventures. They compare European creditor behavior to a warned investor, note Europe’s ongoing withdrawal since the Sherman Act of 1890, and say the US has paid hundreds of millions and cannot live without European money.
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Hambleton & Co
Baltimore
England
Europe
United States
Witham Tell Up to Date. May Stop Careless Vott
In the Louisville Courier Journal view it is perhaps well enough that sound money Democrats are alarmed by the prospects of free silverites controlling the Chicago convention. It will arouse them to their duty and cure them of their good natured habit of advocating sound money while appealing for free silver men.
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Louisville Courier Journal
Chicago
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