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Money: Speech of Hon. John P. Jones, of Nevada, on the Free Coinage of Silver · John P. Jones — chapter 36 of 38 · ~485 words · public domain

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Jefferson, Thomas, "the unit must stand on both metals", 17

Jevons, Professor: The metals not so steady a standard as corn, 42 inconvertible paper money, if limited in quantity, can retain its full value, 77

Jevons, on Money, 66 table of relation of general prices 1809 to 1849, 40

Laughlin, Professor, "the name 'dollar' does not always have the same value", 42

Laveleye, Professor, "Debtors have a right to pay in gold or silver", 18

Law, what is claimed for it, in keeping the metals together, 110 of France held the metals together from 1803 till demonetization, 110

Legal-tender: All money should have this power, 71

Locke, John, both gold and silver variable in value, 42 on Money, 66, 76

McCulloch, J. R., "Money is a measure of value", 71 were there perfect security against over-issue of paper money, the metals might be dispensed with, 78

McLeod, on Money, 66

Materials used as Money at various epochs, 10

Machiavelli's reference to the brigands, 57

Massachusetts Bureau of Labor: Deductions from its reports as to numbers of the unemployed, 61

Mill, James, the value of money depends on its quantity, 76

Mill, John Stuart, on Money, 66 the value varies inversely as its quantity, 76

Mining States: Their interest in remonetization of silver, 58

Monetary Commission Report: Quotations from, as to new school of financial theorists, 18

Money demand, not commodity demand, gives gold its value, 81 effect of reduction in volume of, 6 effect intensified as civilization advances, 6 a glance at the history of, 9 substances used as, at various epochs, 10 the money-function the all-sufficient guaranty of the money value, 79 where is the future money to come from, if silver remains demonetized, 79 --what is it? Its value not in the material but in the stamp--in the legal-tender power conferred, 65 should be redeemable in all things, 104 valuable rather for the important service it performs than for the material of which made, 80 question a question of prices, 80 what is the demand for it? what the supply?, 73 no alternative for it, 74 the most potent instrumentality in the evolution of society, 74

National money, as distinguished from international money. Advantages of national money, 99

Newspapers, number published in United States, 4

Non-mining States, their interest in remonetization of silver, 60

Overstone, Lord, "The value of a paper currency results from its being kept at the same amount the metallic currency would have been", 78

Panics, impossible if all money were legal tender, 71

Parity of the metals: Can the United States alone hold them together?, 109

Paulus (author of Pandects): Power of money dependent not on substance but on quantity, 77

Playfair, Sir Lyon, uses the argument that England is a creditor nation, 23

Population, Money should increase in a ratio not less than the ratio of increase of, 75

Price, the index of the value of Money, 8

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