Excerpt from Speech of Hon. John P. Altgeld, Governor of Illinois, at the Auditorium, Chicago, May 16, 1896 Speaking of the fall of silver, he insists that careful investigation shows that any increase, in production had little to. Do with it, but that the great depreciation of silver resulted mainly from its having ceased to be money over a large part of the civilized world, and that this is due to governmental action. He holds with Delmar that What is called the cost of production theory is not sound But on the subject ...
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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. John P. Altgeld, Governor of Illinois, at the Auditorium, Chicago, May 16, 1896 Speaking of the fall of silver, he insists that careful investigation shows that any increase, in production had little to. Do with it, but that the great depreciation of silver resulted mainly from its having ceased to be money over a large part of the civilized world, and that this is due to governmental action. He holds with Delmar that What is called the cost of production theory is not sound But on the subject of restoring silver by. International agreement, he claims that as England is a creditor nation it will not be to her interest to give up any advantage which the debtor nations have given her through their own legislation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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