Part 34

Chevalier, in France, advocated demonetization of gold, 20

Circulation, present monetary, 75

Coal, yield for 1888, 4

Condition of country at present, 3 at period of demonetization of silver, 26

Competition, the value of money fixed by the competition to get it, 73

Cotton manufacturer, his loan of $10,000, payable, principal and interest, in cloth, contrasted with loan of same amount contracted by his neighbor, but payable in dollars, 72

Cotton-planters, their loss by demonetization of silver, 60

Crawford, William H., opinion as to effect of decreasing volume of money, 7

Creditors, demand for the "Best Money," meaning a money of increasing value, 69 their course in Europe to increase value of gold, 19 their course in United States to increase value of gold, 27 the pretense in the United States to "strengthen the public credit", 28

Crops for 1888, corn, wheat, oats, and cotton, 4

Debt, a distinguishing characteristic of civilization, 35 a, of $10,000 contracted in 1873--how much wheat, cotton, etc., would pay it then and how much now, 57

Debtors, who are they, 35 and creditors, their motives compared, 34

De Colange, Professor, the rate at which money exchanges is determined by its quantity, 77

Demand for money, what it is, 73

Demonetization of silver, by England, 22 by Germany, 16 by United States, 26 wholly unjustifiable, 28

De Quincey, in England, advocated demonetization of gold, 20

Difficulty, one symptom common to all industries, 5

Discussion, educational effect of, 29

Double standard, statement of, before French Commission, 22

Dumas, a Senator of France, pleads for caution before demonetization, 17

Economist (London) admits rise of gold, 44

Effects of shrinking volume of money (extract from report of Monetary Commission), 36

Encyclopedia Britannica, effect of fall in the value of money, 8

England's position not due to gold standard, 25

Failures in United States, 1887, 1888, and 1889, 49

Fall of interest on gilt-edged securities, a proof of rise of gold, 48

Farm, how it may be lost by an increasing value in the money unit, 70

Farmers, their loss by demonetization of silver, 60