This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ...to the countries that are rich from those that are poor; so poor, too, that they cannot afford to keep as much of it as is required for their own exchanges. The gold of Siberia leaves a land in which so little circulates, that labor and its products are at the lowest prices, to find its way to St. Petersburg, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ...to the countries that are rich from those that are poor; so poor, too, that they cannot afford to keep as much of it as is required for their own exchanges. The gold of Siberia leaves a land in which so little circulates, that labor and its products are at the lowest prices, to find its way to St. Petersburg, where it will purchase less labor, and less of either wheat or hemp, than it would do at home; and that of Carolina and Virginia goes steadily and regularly, year after year, to the countries to which the people of those States send their cotton and their wheat, because of the higher prices at which they sell. The silver of Mexico, and its cochineal, travel together to the same market; and the gold of Australia passes to Britain by the ship which carries the wool yielded by the flocks. Every addition to the stock of money, as we are assured by the ingenious men of modern days, engaged in compiling treasury tables and finance reports, renders a country a good place to sell in, but a bad one in which to purchase. To what countries, however, is it, that men have most resorted when they desired to purchase 1 Have they not, until recently, gone, almost exclusively, to Britain 1 It has been so, assuredly; aud for the reason, that there it has been, that finished commodities were cheaply furnished. Where have they gone to sell? Has it not been to Britain? It certainly has been so; and for the reason, that there it was, that gold, cotton, wheat, and all other of the rude products of the earth, were dear. Where do they now most tend to go when they desire to purchase cloths or silks? Is it not to France and Germany? So it certainly is; and for the reason, that there it is that raw materials are highest, and finished ones are cheapest. Gold follows in...
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